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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 Center for Data Insights and Innovation within the California Health and Human Services Agency is taking shape and, as it is now configured, would be “cost-neutral” and include 18 redirected positions. Its mission, generally, is to improve the availability, visibility and use of data.
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As new technology continues to come online, the state Department of Housing and Community Development is in need of assistance from IT companies to do more with testing.
The California Highway Patrol's largest single expenditure on IT goods in January and February was roughly $11.1 million for rear-facing cameras for its patrol fleet and other vehicles.
A top FI$Cal executive recounts the past year’s challenges as the state financial entity, like so many others, shifted to a remote-work protocol. And some key vendors — DocuSign, Adobe, ServiceNow and Microsoft — get a public “thank you” for helping out.
Three augmented reality projects have been awarded $20,000 each by US Ignite to develop projects that use AR technology to address city concerns like transportation, education or health care.
The California Department of Transportation’s most expensive purchases of IT goods in February included cybersecurity threat software, cloud storage and GPS hardware.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Qlik Tech to the Techwire family. Qlik’s mission centers on empowering people in meaningful discoveries capable of driving real change. Its business intelligence solutions offer end-to-end, real-time data integration and an analytics cloud platform capable of closing any gaps between data, insights and action. The Pennsylvania-based company’s vision is for a data-literate world, where decision-making can be enhanced and problems solved via data and analytics. Qlik has more than 50,000 customers globally and works in more than 100 nations. For more information, visit qlik.com or contact Scott Morris, Field Sales Director, Public Sector, SLED WEST.
The duties of the job include cloud security, network security and training and knowledge transfer. The monthly salary range for this position is $7,365 to $10,165, and the recruitment will stay active until the position is filled.
Deanne M. Wertin, who’s served as deputy agency information officer since 2018 for the California Health and Human Services Agency, joined the state after working in the private sector.
A state Assembly bill reintroduced last week and headed to committee would set boundaries on the use of personal information collected by mobility devices like e-scooters, e-bikes and others.
“Circumstances have played out that we see a huge opportunity to get back into the state and local marketplace, being one of the big four consulting/accounting firms,” Scott Morris said.
Having recently stepped down as San Rafael’s director of digital service and open government, Rebecca Woodbury is continuing her work at her new company, Department of Civic Things. Her focus: helping small jurisdictions change.
“We need to build on our successes achieved during the pandemic, continue to be flexible and further expand our technology capabilities and civic responsibilities in the challenging years ahead. Over the past year, we’ve given our residents stability due to our ability to go virtual in a short amount of time,” says Hong Sae, chief information officer for the city of Roseville.
The positions, with the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal) and the state Department of Health Care Services, both have application deadlines within the next two weeks.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Zerto to the Techwire family. Zerto enables customers to speed up their IT transformations via a single scalable platform for cloud data management and protection. The industry leader’s software-only platform moves past the risks of modernization and cloud adoption to provide constant data protection that brings together disaster recovery, backup and data mobility. Used by more than 8,000 customers around the world, Zerto’s technology powers offerings for Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure and many others. For more information, visit zerto.com or contact David Fernandez.
The two state entities have issued a solicitation seeking a contractor to use “data and insights to independently assess” whether a project aimed at replacing several legacy child welfare systems is on track.
“When you look at contracting, the ability to piggyback on, whether it’s cloud contracts, data center, innovation, training, we really need to have a strong partnership with the states, and we want that badly,” said Los Angeles County Chief Information Officer Bill Kehoe.
Moving to the cloud doesn’t always make sense or pencil out, the municipal IT leader said, presenting issues for officials to examine as they consider the journey.
In breakouts of e.Republic’s “Beyond the Beltway” virtual conference Thursday and Friday, the chief information officers for San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles County – Linda Gerull, Rob Lloyd and Bill Kehoe, respectively – talked about how dramatically the abilities of local governments have changed in the year since the COVID pandemic struck.
Mike Hawkins, based in Southern California, has been affiliated with major companies in technology, including Dell, CompuCom, Check Point and Forescout Technologies. Most recently, he was a senior account manager for SLED with Nth Generation Computing.
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