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Lloyd, who has served in technology leadership positions in San Jose, Seattle and beyond, will be joining the Center for Digital Government as its executive director.
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A cyber attack against Napa Valley College two weeks ago blocked access to network systems or took them offline. Administrators say they’re approaching full recovery but aren’t there yet.
The highly touted state website that helps people find jobs and businesses fill openings has been out of service all week — and is expected to remain down until after the July 4 holiday.
The Department of Real Estate is seeking a chief information security officer, and the CA Lottery is seeking a chief, enterprise risk officer.
The app, developed by Amazon subsidiary Ring, allows departments to view and share information with users. More than 2,700 departments are using the service around the country as of mid-June.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority contracted for a variety of services, including consultants who worked on the enterprise asset management system and maintenance and operational support of the authority’s geographic information systems, custom applications and integrations.
Veteran technology leader Chad Crowe, who's served as the chief information officer for the California Department of Human Resources since 2008, said his new role “is a great fit for me and what I'm passionate about.”
El Dorado Hills resident Nishant Agrawal, who’s been in the tech industry for almost 25 years, will lead the Microsoft group focused on state and local government and education.
“I am honored to lead a practice that, over the past 19 years, has earned a reputation for superior client experience, particularly with agencies that are under high pressure or in crisis,” Tom Larson told Industry Insider — California.
In a new request for information, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System looks to learn more about a modern portfolio management solution.
Accela, which sells permitting, licensing, service request management and other technology to public agencies, has released a product designed to reduce redundancy and tedium for government officials — and help them deal with labor woes.
As part of Industry Insider — California’s ongoing efforts to educate readers on state agencies, their IT plans and initiatives, here’s the latest in our periodic series of interviews with departmental IT leaders.
The technical manager “must demonstrate the highest level of expertise in leadership, design, development and configuration of highly complex technical systems, in System Development Lifecycle practices, waterfall and agile system implementation methodologies, change control practices and customer service,” the duty statement says.
More Californians are gaining access to broadband Internet, but Black and Latino households still lag behind their white counterparts, according to an analysis of American Community Survey data.
In a request for proposal, the Los Angeles Unified School District asks for “additional proposals from qualified firms for the Site-Based Technology Support Services Bench,” to augment its pool of qualified companies.
Carl Pirie of Sacramento explained why he joined the company: “As I dove into the technology behind Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, I was really impressed with how well thought out and executed it was.”
Duties of the position include “negotiating with vendors and collaborating with customer procurement project managers and staff in the development and oversight of innovative IT and telecommunication procurement approaches on a statewide basis.”
Joel Golub, a longtime executive in the public and private sectors, will serve as an industry-facing executive, focusing on Oracle Cloud’s mid-market vertical, which includes local government organizations across the country.
The state Department of Developmental Services is also recruiting for an important leadership position.
There’s more than one right way to accomplish major technology work but sometimes, tough decisions have to be made for the project to move forward, officials at the California departments of Technology, Motor Vehicles, and Corrections and Rehabilitation said recently at the California Public Sector CIO Academy.
Tamara Armstrong, a veteran technology leader in the California public sector, will be the next vice president and chief information officer for Loyola Marymount University.
Open positions include an office chief, project director, senior programmer analyst, IT program manager and information systems analyst.
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