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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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Todd Silliman was elevated to enterprise relationship manager, and Glenn Grandis was named account manager for state and local government and education in Southern California and Hawaii.
The California Department of Technology has submitted two budget change proposals that, if approved, could streamline how residents access online services and activate the next steps in updating a key site.
The city is seeking two deputy chief information officers, both of whom would work under Chief Information Officer Rob Lloyd and Assistant CIO/Chief Technology Officer Jerry Driessen to execute “a strategic work plan focusing on equity, engagement and resilience with city departments,” Lloyd said.
“I am results-focused, have higher than average expectations, and will work with anyone that is putting in the effort,” says Ventura County CIO Terry Theobald. “I believe in accountability in the sense those I work with and I are both accountable.”
“Raelyn brings a wealth of sales and marketing experience with over 10 years focused on the information technology market,” said Keyur Majmudar, managing partner for SEPTech.
Assembly Bill 1323 from San Francisco Democrat David Chiu seeks to improve the state’s record on large, successful, cost-effective legacy IT modernizations. It cleared the state Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection on Thursday.
The state’s deputy chief information security officer has primary responsibility for managing the Risk Governance, Advisory, Audit/Compliance and Security Operations, which includes Security Assurance, Security Solutions and Security Threat Management, also known as Security Operations Center.
The state's new Homeless Data Integration System, California's first unified warehouse for data on homelessness, went live Wednesday after a 15-week build. It's expected to do a better job of connecting state and local agencies and empowering their work to combat homelessness, as well as providing previously unavailable metrics to improve understanding of the ongoing problem and how services are making an impact.
The governor said early in the coronavirus pandemic that he planned to make telework a permanent option for state employees, and he ordered department directors in November to incorporate savings from remote work in proposals for mandatory across-the-board spending reductions of 5 percent.
Seeking to broaden opportunities for employees and the public to perform more work and transactions online, the county is looking to buy and lease laptops and tablets, develop apps to automate more processes, and focus on ways to improve the recruitment and retention of technology workers.
The chief information officer provides day-to-day supervision and oversight over all the department’s IT sections, including Applications Development Services, Customer Support and Services, Information Security and Infrastructure Operations, the Technology Governance Section, and the Enterprise Architecture Section.
Noel Corriveau, the former senior adviser for AI policy and implementation to the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, discussed the work of moving into artificial intelligence at the third statewide AI Community of Practice discussion, led by the California Department of Technology.
The details, released Tuesday, mark the first time the Mountain View-based search giant has outlined specific efforts it will undertake for the community, after months of closed-door negotiations with the city. The City Council is expected to decide on the development agreement by June.
“When you win a number of open competitive RFPs in the procurement business, all of a sudden, it’s like, ‘Boom!’ We have been very fortunate in our growth,” said Thao Hill, ProcureNow’s co-founder and chief customer officer.
The Accellion system was attacked over the winter by suspects exploiting a flaw in its software. Among the other colleges reportedly affected are the universities of Maryland, Colorado and Miami, and Yeshiva University in New York. Government agencies and private companies were also targeted.
The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services’ costliest purchases of IT goods in March included hardware, software and services.
Ongoing confusion adds to what state lawmakers have called the Employment Development Department’s “very poor history” of paying outside entities to patch holes in the safety net as workers try to survive in financial limbo.
The barge docked in the Port of Stockton is up and running after years of planning — and months of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The state tax entity is working with two technology companies to modernize the Delinquent Vehicle Registration system, which collects debts for the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
The auditor’s report urged the California Department of Public Health to conduct a thorough re-evaluation of its contact tracing program by May 15. In its written response to the audit, the department said it’s already retooling the system.
“In IT, we understand the critical nature of our role to provide solutions for the problems that the business is trying to solve. Without truly understanding those problems and partnering with business to create the solutions, success is more difficult to achieve. The pandemic has really highlighted the importance of that partnership,” says Heather L. Pettit, chief information officer for the Judicial Council of California.
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