Topeka ? Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has hired a new chief information technology officer.

Brownback says Monday that Anthony Schlinsog will be the permanent choice for the position. Schlinsog has been interim chief of information technology since November.

Schlinsog was named to the post on an interim basis after Brownback’s first choice for the post, Jim Mann, resigned when questions were raised about his academic credentials.

Brownback signed an executive order in November requiring the information technology officers from all executive branch agencies, except the Kansas Board of Regents, to report to one information technology official.

Schlinsog previously had been the IT director for the Kansas Department of Transportation. His LinkedIn profile says he earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Andrews University in 1986, and a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1988.