M.J. Pizzella, associate administrator of the General Services Administration’s Office of Citizen Services and Communications, is leaving the agency, according to an e-mail message circulating at GSA. Friday is her last day.
“I have been planning for some time to pursue opportunities in the private sector and decided to make the transition now,” she wrote in an e-mail message sent to colleagues today.
Pizzella was the first associate administrator in the citizen services office and has worked at GSA through three presidential administrations.
In the e-mail message, she noted the office’s success in providing services to the public. It has sought to make government information more easily accessible through FirstGov.gov, the all-government search engine.
In January, Pizzella announced the improved FirstGov. The Web site, aided by private-sector partners Vivisimo and Microsoft, connects Web searchers to more than 40 million government-related documents from federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments. Previously, FirstGov had about 8 million documents and only searched federal sites.
“The impact on citizens’ lives is just beginning to be realized,” she wrote.
Pizzella was a finalist in the Women in Technology 2006 WIT Leadership Awards.
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