From COBOL to cloud, Burton reflects on four decades in government

From COBOL to cloud, Burton reflects on four decades in government

When Adriane Burton joined the federal government nearly 40 years ago, the IRS trained her to work on Unisys mainframes using COBOL. Burton, who retired in April after 37 years of federal service, had a front-row seat for all the major technology changes the government went through since the late 1980s. Burton, who spent her last 11 years as the chief information officer at the Health Resources and Services Administration in the Department of He…