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Dean Gialamas, a familiar face in Southern California IT circles, has been tapped as the next IT bureau chief and CIO for the Los Angeles Police Department.
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“I think the traditional role of the CIO has really evolved significantly over the past few years, and the CIO role is becoming much more aligned with the business and strategy of organizations,” says Chief Information Officer Jonathan Behnke.
Victoria Powers started in the industry with Hewlett-Packard in January 2000, holding a variety of roles with HP before joining Aruba, a Hewlett-Packard Enterprise company, in 2013. She joined Alteryx last month.
“A cloud solution is preferred, and relevant CalOES technologies include Microsoft 365, Azure AD, Esri, Salesforce, Mulesoft, Tableau, Docusign, GovDelivery, SendGrid. MFA (multi-factor authentication) is being enabled, and multiple SSO implementations have been deployed.”
Director Sharon Hilliard, who's retiring at the end of the year, has overseen the beleaguered department through a benefits backlog since the COVID-19 pandemic and other problems.
Stephanie Kreiter has a strong background in technology and data, having worked in a public health management role. She joins AWS from SAS Institute, where she was an account executive.
State IT leaders have solicited input from IT and non-IT executives and managers across state agencies and departments, as well as from members of the legislative and judicial branches and local governments. On Wednesday, the industry will have an opportunity to weigh in on the state’s plans.
The contracts call for services including hosting infrastructure, data architect and classification, and application support and maintenance.
Experts say they’re confident that California’s data systems are up to the task at hand. The state is working on “a robust data system to track local inventories and doses administered,” and it already has a “confidential and secure” immunization information system.
The chief information security officer "coordinates and directs information security protection and compliance activities with the Security Operations Center and multiple data center management units,” the job posting says.
The entities seeking IT professionals are the California State Lottery, the California Conservation Corps, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The state will seek ways to use Caltech’s data in driving state policies relating to wildfires, earthquakes and other natural phenomena as well as climate change, agricultural production and carbon sequestration. Artificial intelligence and other technologies are likely to be involved.
“The EDD department is so dysfunctional. There has been a backlog, there continues to be a backlog of many, many thousands of people because of the pandemic, because of the lockdowns," said Vern Pierson, El Dorado County district attorney.
Increasing demand for electronic check services is projected to reach 560,000 transactions a month in the current fiscal year; the department, which is among the state’s best-known, is interested in meeting that need in a timely and secure fashion.
The position, with the California Department of Aging, is responsible for leading IT governance for the department, implementing California Health and Human Services Agency and statewide policies, developing and implementing department IT policy, and advising executive management and the director. The application deadline is Dec. 4.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Infosys Public Services, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Infosys, to the Techwire family. Infosys offers business consulting, technology solutions and next-generation digital services, enabling public-sector organizations in the U.S. and Canada to navigate their digital transformation. Solutions incorporate best practices from the company’s 40-plus years of cross-industry experience, a design thinking framework, and flexible delivery models for predictable, on-time, on-budget execution. In California, the firm has offices in San Francisco. For more information on Infosys Public Services, go to infosyspublicservices.com or contact Brian Bennett.
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the city’s ongoing digitization efforts as much as threefold, says Los Angeles CIO Ted Ross. And throughout the country, governments’ response to COVID-19 has been a success story in many ways.
The roles — chief technology officer and PeopleSoft technical lead — require technical expertise as well as leadership skills. Both roles are in the heart of Silicon Valley and have six-figure salaries.
The Long Beach Accelerator, a public-private partnership activated in 2019, is seeking technology startups to participate in its first cohort early next year.
“The analytics are telling us we’re getting more traffic, and we’re using it as a site to point more students to,” said Paul Feist of the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. “And we’re really grateful it was finished before COVID took hold. I don’t think the old site could have handled all the material we’re using it for.”
One recently signed bill helps California keep “the lead in protecting our residents against unlawful search and seizure,” says its author, Assemblymember Ed Chau.
Candidates should have experience and knowledge about all aspects of operations, budgeting, project management and personnel administration. The position has an annual salary range of $161,225 to $195,970.
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Technological innovation in artificial intelligence has shifted. For the better part of a decade, AI operated within tightly bounded constraints: classifying images, generating text, and using these capabilities to surface recommendations. While these systems were powerful, they were fundamentally passive. They needed to receive a prompt in order to return a result. Once the result was achieved, the system stopped.
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