November 14, 2006 07:02 PM UTC

Resume-Padding At The DEC

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• by: Colorado Pols

Why the hell do people do stupid things like this? Don’t they realize people can find out the truth, and always do when things go wrong?

From the Rocky Mountain News:

The technology chief suspended in Denver’s election fiasco overstated his job experience in an unsuccessful 2001 job application to the city of Denver.

Anthony Rainey claimed on his resume he served as Denver Health’s interim chief information officer for seven months in 1997. He repeated the claim in June to defend his qualifications, city officials say, as he repeatedly rejected help from the mayor’s technology experts striving to ensure the city’s most high-tech election in history went smoothly.

Rainey single- handedly oversaw technology for the election snarled by computer glitches that forced voters to stand in line for hours last Tuesday. He was placed on investigative leave by the Denver Election Commission Saturday.

He did not return repeated calls Friday and Monday for his comment.

“I know he wasn’t the CIO. I’m certain,” said Gregory Veltri, Denver Health’s current CIO…

From the look of it, we wouldn’t hire him for the Geek Squad. Maybe he’d make for decent tech support (speaks English), but running an election in a major American city?

Who checked this guy’s references?