Mark Wheeler has 25 years of professional experience, with eight years in executive roles within large IT organizations. As the founder of Alogra, LLC, he has positioned himself as a consultant in Govtech, aiding public sector CIO/CTOs and IT startups to successfully partner and tackle smart city, digital identity, and data governance projects. During his tenure as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City of Philadelphia he greatly expanded and invested in cyber security efforts to secure a $5B federated network of agencies and improve digital service delivery to over 1.6M residents and 32,000 employees. Under Mark's stewardship, the city’s Office of Innovation and Technology built a $33 million public safety data center and E-911 operations center, launched Smart City PHL, stood up the Office for Digital Equity and PHLConnectED - a $17M program to provide free internet access to over 23,000 preK-12 families, and ran multi-million dollar IT project modernizations for financials/procurement ERP, election machine and electronic poll books, tax billing, property assessment, public safety records management,and integrated prisons management systems.
Mark previously worked as the city’s first Geographic Information Officer (GIO) where he established master data management and enterprise data engineering, open data publishing, and analytics program - CityGeo. He has also worked as an urban planner and spent ten years as a GIS consultant managing teams to deliver web mapping and spatial software application development solutions to local, state, and regional governments. He is currently working on a three-year consultancy at the federal Technology Transformation Services’ Centers for Excellence as a director of AI, data & analytics. Mark has a master's degree in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts.
Mark Wheeler has 25 years of professional experience, with eight years in executive roles within large IT organizations. As the founder of Alogra, LLC, he has positioned himself as a consultant in Govtech, aiding public sector CIO/CTOs and IT startups to successfully partner and tackle smart city, digital identity, and data governance projects. During his tenure as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City of Philadelphia he greatly expanded and invested in cyber security efforts to secure a $5B federated network of agencies and improve digital service delivery to over 1.6M residents and 32,000 employees. Under Mark's stewardship, the city’s Office of Innovation and Technology built a $33 million public safety data center and E-911 operations center, launched Smart City PHL, stood up the Office for Digital Equity and PHLConnectED - a $17M program to provide free internet access to over 23,000 preK-12 families, and ran multi-million dollar IT project modernizations for financials/procurement ERP, election machine and electronic poll books, tax billing, property assessment, public safety records management,and integrated prisons management systems.
Mark previously worked as the city’s first Geographic Information Officer (GIO) where he established master data management and enterprise data engineering, open data publishing, and analytics program - CityGeo. He has also worked as an urban planner and spent ten years as a GIS consultant managing teams to deliver web mapping and spatial software application development solutions to local, state, and regional governments. He is currently working on a three-year consultancy at the federal Technology Transformation Services’ Centers for Excellence as a director of AI, data & analytics. Mark has a master's degree in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts.
