Andrew Burton

Manager of Innovation & Technology, City of Winnipeg

Jan 2023 — present

IT Manager for Planning Property & Development and Assets & Project Management Departments (June 2023 – Present)

• Departmental Supplier for all IT needs, including Desktop and Mobility Services and Data and Application Services.
• Manages 20 staff and contractors in 2 teams with a 2 million dollar operating budget, capital projects totaling over 4 million, and a portfolio of 40 applications.
• Product owner of enterprise permitting and licensing software (Amanda), asset and work order management (Maximo), and base layer geospatial data.
• Plans, prioritizes, and develops Capital Business Cases for IT services based on departmental, corporate and council strategic action plans.
• Developed City of Winnipeg Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence Standards for all City employees. Worked on multiple AI based initiatives within the Planning Property & Development Department.

Acting IT Manager for Corporate Services (Jan 2023 – June 2023)

• Managed 60 employees in 6 teams with a 6 million dollar budget and a portfolio of 160+ applications.
• Product owner of Citywide ERP (PeopleSoft), Case Management (Lagan), Geospatial (GeoMedia), Winnipeg.ca website, intranet and more.
• Coordinated the development of and successfully presented multiple 10-year Capital Business Cases.

Coordinator of Web & Data Services, City of Winnipeg

Jan 2020 — Jan 2023

• Innovation & Technology Coordinator servicing enterprise Information Services, Geospatial Services, and Web systems
• Responsible for Open Data, Master Data Management, Data ETL Pipelines, Geospatial base layers, internal geospatial portals, Winnipeg.ca and the intranet website.
• Managed 9 employees in three teams with a 2 million dollar budget and a portfolio of 20+ applications, many with dozens of interdepartmental application and data integrations.
• Successfully negotiated an annual 25% discount on a significant enterprise licensing agreement by leveraging a competitor’s market dominance.
• Led a team effort to modernize the Winnipeg.ca website from project initiation, current state analysis, future state project plan, funding, RFP contract administration and evaluation, client negotiations, multi-department coordination of work effort, project execution, launch and close out.
• Led using a democratic, participative leadership style, inviting input from team members before making decisions. Encouraged professional development and supported staff to grow into new roles.
• Demonstrated leadership during transition to Work-From-Home by initiating reasonable reporting requirements and transitioning to daily stand ups, ensuring that all teams had daily contact with coworkers while keeping high morale during the stressful early days of Covid-19.
• Met annual budget forecast target within 0.25% of totals.
• Successfully submitted multiple capital projects, wrote multiple briefing notes, admin reports, and gave dozens of presentations.

Open Data Administrator, City of Winnipeg

Jun 2016 — Jan 2020

• Open Data advocacy, outreach, and development.
• Expanded on the organizational mandate set by Mayor to promote ideals of openness and transparency within the civil service.
• Developed the Winnipeg Open Data program by influencing department data owners to release high value datasets.
• Program efforts led to recognition of Winnipeg as the second most Open City in 2019 in Canada on the Open Cities Index, up from tenth in 2016, and a 2020 Open Cities Index score of 96%.
• Worked with many external organizations including the Province of Manitoba, TechMB, the University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg, as well as various incubators like North Forge and Decision Works.
• Developed several Open Data backed web applications and designed processes to expand this work.
• Delivered 30+ presentations and training sessions to a wide range of audiences, from grade 9 and 10 students to City Council, including Manitoba Public Sector CIOs and the Deputy Minister of Education.
• Supervised the corporate web team to provide guidance and experience on web best practices and led the web transformation project to modernize the winnipeg.ca website.

Senior Programmer Analyst, Winnipeg Free Press

Dec 2009 — Jun 2016

• Developed Content Management Systems, Employee Productivity Suites, and high traffic public facing websites. Work supervision of Junior team members, and web policy development.
• Led development team for large web-based development projects including website content engine that managed multiple streams of data to produce unique content for visitors to the winnipegfreepress.com.
• Created unique visualizations for data-driven journalism, receiving Silver award in Canadian Online Publishing Awards for Best Infographic / Data Visualization.

Senior Web Developer, Rainy Day Software Corp

Dec 2006 — Dec 2009

Web Developer / Project Manager, Nutech Digital Corp

Sep 2002 — May 2005

Jr. System Architect, OzNetwork Pty Ltd

Nov 2000 — May 2001