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Christine Harada, who replaced Sarah Soto-Taylor as Government Operations undersecretary in August, is leaving the role for a position on the California Public Utilities Commission.
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The Southern California city hopes to capitalize on the success of an administrative citation program stood up roughly eight years ago.
Three linchpin state entities and departments are looking for four technology staff and specialists in areas with impact across the enterprise.
Using the Silicon Valley giant’s Street View technology, the state’s emergency services agency is piloting a program to more quickly and efficiently calculate wildfire damage through video and artificial intelligence.
The departments seek candidates with expertise in recognizing, assessing and mitigating threats to their information security. One of the roles also involves working with other governmental jurisdictions on shared initiatives and cyber defense efforts.
In her new role, Shelley Ballard will be part of Gartner’s Health and Human Services account team. She most recently was senior vice president of e.Republic, parent of Techwire.
“I’m excited for this new chapter in management consulting, and I’m looking forward to sharing new perspectives on strategy, technology and business transformation,” Lucy Keoni told Techwire.
The proposed legislation, from state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, is aimed at driving public-private collaboration on IT that can help authorities grapple with natural disasters like California’s historic wildfires.
Positions at three essential state entities related to health care and criminal justice include a senior network cloud engineer, a full-stack software developer and an IT manager.
“We have the technology road map, where we want to go, how we want to invest in the technology, how it will reduce our technical debt, how it will help improve and make some consistent business processes and programs. A lot of these things are part of the digital transformation aspect – but I need that culture change,” says Rob Peterson, agency information officer at the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
More accessible and more affordable broadband connectivity, as well as improvements to the state’s energy grid, could be in store for California, depending on what the federal infrastructure bill ultimately contains.
The California Department of Real Estate “re-evaluated its information technology organizational structure and, by creating a new executive position, re-established its commitment to keeping DRE on stride with technological advancements and enhanced information security,” Assistant Commissioner Shelly Wilson told Techwire.
“... We’re looking at ways to possibly digitize the invoice process so vendors can upload their invoices to the FI$Cal system and departments will no longer have to deal with paper invoices,” writes Neeraj Chauhan, chief deputy director of the Financial Information System for California.
The California Department of Technology made fewer than five purchases of IT services in July – but spent in the mid-six figures, with most of it going toward just one initiative.
La Quinta, in Southern California’s lush Coachella Valley, has turned to an AI-powered solution that mines real estate transactions and other data to zero in on the homes that are operating as unpermitted vacation rentals.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s portion of the new Fiscal Year 2021-2022 state budget should enable it to continue its work in IT and innovation.
Departments are seeking to hire a data center chief, a branch chief, a senior technical adviser/developer, and a network engineer.
From pre-pandemic, in-person government, then to remote work, and now to a hybrid of both models, the business of leading cities and counties — and the changing nature of residents’ engagement — is a work in progress, three Silicon Valley IT leaders agree.
The deputy director will serve as the primary policy adviser on IT-related strategic planning, as well as development and implementation of the department’s technology platforms, applications, systems, operations, support services, enterprise architecture and infrastructure.
In a Request for Offer released late last week, the California Department of Health Care Services is seeking assistance with its California Automated Recovery Management “Digital Support Services.”
Recruiting is underway for positions with the California Department of Technology, the California Department of Education and the California Military Command.
The enacted 2021-2022 Fiscal Year state budget includes money for the California Highway Patrol to move forward on several key IT initiatives in communications, documentation and infrastructure.
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