News

The deputy director will be a member of the ISD senior leadership team and have “full management responsibility for organizing, planning, directing, coordinating, and managing all activities associated with the Modernization Section,” the job posting states.

Logan Lemming most recently had been a senior systems engineer for enterprise accounts with Qumulo, and before that he had a similar position with CommScope.

The governor’s proposed 2021-2022 state budget offers nonprofit funding to improve broadband access and initiatives, and a finalized state report explains how that could happen.

Techwire is pleased to welcome Whyline to the Techwire family. Whyline is a trusted partner of large government agencies, banks, hospitals, retailers and school systems. With a mobile application and cloud-based software, organizations use Whyline to empower their customers by letting them schedule visits, jump the line and be notified when to arrive. This is achieved by an omnichannel suite of products where the customer journey is optimized and operational costs are minimized. The company states: “Whyline is a completely new take on old-style queuing systems that utilizes cloud computing. Our solution virtualizes the entire queuing process for companies and governments by allowing their customers to see the live wait-times for their destination of choice and enter the line remotely from any location.” For more information, visit whyline.com or contact Michael Twersky.

Carrie Cate-Clements joined Cradlepoint in October 2017 as a regional account manager for SLED in California, Nevada and Hawaii. She was promoted to public sector strategic account manager one year ago. Her new role as director of Public Sales for the West took effect this month.

California’s election cybersecurity approach shut down notable problems. But public records show that its seemingly scattershot approach also ensnared some people who say they were joking.

“I would say just very simply that digital transformation, to me, is solving business problems using technology as an enabler. I don’t want ‘digital transformation’ to be a buzzword that doesn’t have any action behind it,” says Chief Information Officer Bill Kehoe.

“That’s a big responsibility, and it’s a lot to work on,” James Waterman told Techwire. “At this stage of my life, my career goals wouldn’t be to manage massive teams — rather, to work with my peers and clients just to solve massive problems."

Much of the report, “Vision 2023,” is fashioned as “challenge” statements, with bullet points addressing problems and recommending solutions.

Techwire is pleased to welcome Vantiq to the Techwire family. Vantiq’s software development and deployment platform lets customers construct next-gen apps that aggregate real-world data and real-time events. This agile development environment enables the creation of complex apps in just weeks with minimal coding that fully utilize artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and edge computing. Walnut Creek-based Vantiq powers a wide variety of apps for smart cities and smart buildings and in industries including telecom and health care. For more information, visit vantiq.com or contact David Sprinzen.

The funding worked out to $102 per resident for small counties and up to $197 per resident for counties with more than 500,000 residents, according to the report.

A linchpin department that advocates for and offers services to people with disabilities is exploring the creation of a new payment card system to modernize its current processes.

The position was most recently held by Jennifer Benson, who had served as CIO and deputy director for the department for almost four years. This month, Benson took a new position: associate director of Enterprise Support Services and IT Project Management for California State University at Monterey Bay.

Unemployed workers have continued to complain of a glitchy website and an unresponsive call center. Those complaints have continued despite the EDD adding hundreds of workers and new technology designed to automate and streamline the claims process.

The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services’ most costly purchases of IT goods last year appeared to largely center on updating the state-owned and operated California Public Safety Microwave Network, which is used for “emergency and routine operation communication needs.”

San Jose is seeking an IT professional to enable digital transformation and automation of city administrative processes, which are currently manual and paper-based. Potential candidates are encouraged to apply promptly.

“I was easily recruited by Effectual because I was really impressed with the depth of their capability in cloud services and modernization,” Carl Pirie told Techwire. The company’s Sacramento office is one of six nationwide.

“The purpose of this RFI is to collect information that will assist Caltrans in understanding the technologies and approaches that can achieve its vision. A viable solution identified through this process may provide all of the capabilities defined in this RFI or only a subset,” Caltrans said in the document.

Months after district attorneys uncovered a prison fraud ring that conned the California Employment Development Department out of an estimated $2 billion or more, the head of an identity-security firm working for the state says global cybercriminals are bombarding EDD with fraudulent unemployment claims at a stunning clip.

The leadership position opened with the recent appointment of Scott MacDonald to the role of deputy state chief technology officer.

Randell Iwasaki, the longtime leader at the Contra Costa Transportation Authority and the California Department of Transportation, retired from the former last month, but his career and contributions will continue. Iwasaki talked to Techwire about his accomplishments and what is next.