Private industry can bring agile experience and expertise to government programs, says Adam Dondro, agency information officer for the California Health and Human Services Agency.
In the third part of his interview with e.Republic’s Steve Towns, Peter Kelly, chief deputy director of the state Office of Systems Integration, explains that agile development relies on automated testing and “a continuous development and deployment pipeline.” Infrastructure can’t be a barrier, he said, and innovation must be done with the end user in mind. Kelly was interviewed during the California Technology Forum, an event put on by e.Republic’s Government Technology magazine and T
California has a multitude of contracting vehicles that can be used to acquire IT goods and/or services. There are numerous leveraged procurement agreement vehicles that allow the purchase of basic IT services.
Publicly connecting values with an agency's vision and mission is a key component of hiring that the state can improve on, according to Crystal Taylor, assistant director and acting deputy director of the Project Management Office within the California Department of Technology.
Chris Cruz, chief deputy director of the California Department of Technology, discussed the Amazon and Microsoft cloud contracts at California’s Technology’s Forum last week with e.Republic’s Steve Towns.
In the second installation of a multi-part interview, state Deputy CIO Chris Cruz discusses with e.Republic’s Steve Towns the challenges and pitfalls of standardizing government technology in a state as diverse as California.
The California Department of Technology announced its Vision2020 pillars Tuesday at the California Technology Forum, and Chris Cruz, state deputy CIO, sat down with Techwire to discuss the tenets.
This afternoon's Techwire virtual briefing offers a rare opportunity to hear from three leading California county CIOs, who together make up the executive board of directors of the California County Information Services Directors Association (CCISDA).
The California Energy Commission has a budget of $488 million for the 2017-18 fiscal year. $2.6 million of this has been allocated to its IT department, not including personnel costs and other expenditures from offices within the Energy Commission. The Energy Commission is currently working on a $750,000 Energy Analytics Information Platform (EAIP) pilot project, also referred to as the data lake. It is expected to be completed within the next year.
Mark your calendar for the next Techwire Virtual Briefing — and this one’s a hat trick. Whereas the briefings usually feature one industry figure, next Thursday’s features the top tech officers for three California counties. Jerry Becker, Tim Dupuis and Mike Pettit will be the guests for the conference call, led by Joseph Morris, vice president for research at Techwire’s parent company, e.Republic.
Deloitte has named a new Lead Client Services Partner for the State of California, overseeing consulting, advisory, audit and tax practices that the firm is performing for the state.
Child Welfare Digital Services is recruiting to fill the key project director's position, in charge of overseeing the administrative and customer support functions of the project to replace California's legacy child welfare system for county social workers.
Thought leaders from industry, government and academia will gather on Oct. 10 in Sacramento for the State of California Cybersecurity Education Summit. The educational forum offers continuing education units and features content tied to the five pillars of cybersecurity: identify, detect, protect, respond and recover.
Kehoe has served as King County, Wash., CIO for the past seven years, and pending a Board of Commissioners vote, will serve in the same capacity for Los Angeles County.
Bill Glaholt is CIO of the California Horse Racing Board, which comes under the aegis of the state Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency. He participated in Techwire's "Questions with the CIO" series. Here is a transcript of the email interview.
Los Angeles needs better strategies to protect its critical IT systems in the event of major disasters, City Controller Ron Galperin said in a report issued today, in which he recommends a comprehensive approach to ensure that vital city IT functions, such as 911 dispatch, continue during and after a disaster.
The city of San Jose is using its “technology debt” to look more carefully at how the city’s IT assets are positioned, CIO Rob Lloyd says in a video interview. "Where can we do something smarter or a different way, where do we need to invest in our people so that we can say yes and take on the challenges we need them to take on, and where do we need to do some direct investments in solutions so that we can give people the tools they need to be successful," he says.
While concerns about the glass ceiling persist, women working in municipal, county and state government in California would recommend careers in the public sector, according to a survey by KPMG LLP and the Governing Institute.
This afternoon is Techwire's virtual briefing with tech leader Mohammed Al Rawi, the CIO for the sprawling Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation Department.
An innovative young technology leader in the public sector, Mohammed Al Rawi, will be the subject of a Techwire virtual briefing Thursday. Al Rawi is the chief information officer of the Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation Department, and he’s garnered attention for introducing new technology to a sprawling system of parks, swimming pools and hiking trails.
California's energy grid operator has brought its first Internet-based, software-defined network online as part of its mission to efficiently connect entities to the grid's management system.
