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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 delta county’s new CIO, Mark Thomas, succeeds two award-winning predecessors. San Joaquin has a newly implemented three-year innovation plan in place and contracts with a barge company to house its disaster recovery and backup operations on a floating data center in the Port of Stockton.
Officials from the California Department of Technology and the Department of General Services shared the latest on current and upcoming IT and innovation projects at the CDT Vendor Forum.
California is poised to roll out some sort of electronic vaccine verification system to help residents show businesses and others that they are inoculated against the coronavirus.
“The CIO must be a broker of collaboration, bringing people together so that technology can provide intended value. I make critical technology decisions, but those decisions cannot be made with blinders on,” says Marc Shorr, chief information officer at Contra Costa County.
“It’s amazing that we’ve been able to pivot so quickly, and as they say in local government, ‘Never waste a crisis,’” said Dr. Peter Pirnejad. “So here we are, and we’re starting to reopen. We’re starting to see an opportunity here.”
The Northern California technology leader had been chief information officer for more than eight years, and the county will mount a search for his permanent replacement.
The 16-year-plus California Department of Technology employee has been promoted to a position elsewhere in the department that will make use of his skills.
The departments with key recruitments include the California Department of Technology, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Office of Systems Integration and Covered California.
“I’m very excited to be part of the Zscaler family!” Jan Wong said. “I was very fortunate to have offers from many great companies. ... I chose Zscaler because they are uniquely positioned to help organizations with the challenges of a perimeter-less world.”
Planning and relationships were crucial for San Jose to maintain city services, keep staff safe and reach residents in need, Chief Information Officer Rob Lloyd said during a discussion session at “State of Gov Tech 2021.”
Amanda Daflos, the chief innovation officer for the city of Los Angeles, has stepped down from her post to accept an executive position at the Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University.
The chief “will serve as an enterprise-wide liaison with management and direct a matrix organization of technical and business subject matter experts to develop and lead engineering efforts for all enterprise IT initiatives,” the job posting says.
The California State Library’s new Digital Preservation Strategy specifies file types for use in digitizing content, standardizing digitization, but it may also facilitate future IT projects.
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The chief information technology officer at one of California’s top 10 most populous cities is heading to a similar position with a private company.
California is readying a solution for deployment that would let businesses confirm their customers have received a COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. Gavin Newsom said recently.
Building enough charging infrastructure to capture the anticipated economic and health benefits will be an enormous undertaking. But can California’s power grid handle the strain of so many EVs plugging in on a daily basis?
As the legislative session continues, lawmakers are scrutinizing several proposed bills on topics including “motor voter” registration, disclosure of security breaches and automation.
Joy Sterling of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture urges state officials to “lock in the details for a ‘middle-mile’ broadband infrastructure plan” before Tuesday to secure billions in federal funding.
Watch for an RFP this summer as the light rail agency becomes the state’s first to accept credit cards, debit cards and other payment methods for fares.
“Zscaler’s Public Sector team is growing very fast, and we’re thrilled to have Avery join as our new SLED Sales Leader for the West,” said Ian Milligan-Pate, Zscaler’s regional vice president of sales.
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