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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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“The environment felt very much like a startup," Thomas Boon said. “It was hectic, exciting, and my role was similar to that of a chief technology officer (CTO). ... Now, my primary role is to make sure that GO-Biz’s technology strategy serves its business strategy.”
The Sacramento-area resident is a graduate of the University of California at Davis, with a bachelor of science degree in managerial economics, and she earned her Project Management Professional certification in 2015 from the Project Management Institute.
The California Department of Technology's director, state Chief Information Officer Amy Tong, will deliver opening remarks, as will Richard Rogers, the deputy state CIO and CDT’s chief deputy director.
For the first time, the department has the ability to capture and store video footage of large-scale events. The enabling technology includes two massive hard drives.
Before moving into the private sector, Jared Pane had been with the California Department of Justice, first as a senior programmer analyst and then as a systems software specialist. He was with Red Hat before moving to Elastic in September 2018.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation released a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for IT services Thursday, seeking an “expert senior technical consultant” to assist its Division of Parole Operations. The document also described several IT initiatives planned or in progress.
Departments are seeking positions that include software tester, project contracts manager and enterprise data manager.
An $80 million plan intended to serve as the foundation of efforts to map the entire state of California with lidar technology fell victim to the state budget crisis earlier this year, but the idea is still alive. The new California Water Data Consortium and the state Department of Conservation are spearheading the effort.
The city has hired an experience management company to field more resident and employee experience surveys, and to do so in a more nimble fashion.
Techwire is pleased to welcome Granicus to the Techwire family. Granicus provides nearly 4,500 federal, state and local government agencies — over 600 government customers in California alone — with cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management, records management, and digitizing services. More than 200 million citizen subscribers are connected directly to government news and information via the Granicus platform. In Garden Grove, city code enforcement used the company’s solution to help bring illegal short-term rentals into compliance. For more information, visit Granicus.com or contact Liza Mendoza.
Cole Leonardo’s move to Oracle is a homecoming of sorts; he was with the company from 2014 to 2017. “I’m grateful and excited for the opportunity to return to the company where I started my technology career,” Leonardo told Techwire.
Among the state agencies participating in the event is the Office of Systems Integration (OSI), whose mission is “to procure, manage and deliver technology systems that support the delivery of health and human services to Californians.”
The Villa Park resident, whose background is as a sales and marketing executive as well as an attorney, will focus on the public safety sector for Cradlepoint.
The endeavor, which began the week of Oct. 19, centers on deployment of coronavirus rapid antigen tests among schoolchildren and first responders.
In a Request for Quote, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration seeks a system to enable electronic filing of the Fair Political Practices Commission Statement of Economic Interest, otherwise known as the Form 700 – a common requirement for elected officials and public employees.
The product manager will work with stakeholders, engineers and program staff in the development of IT solutions using agile and scrum framework methodologies.
"We’re using multiple database tools, we’re using multiple visualization platforms, we’re using multiple analytics platforms, and I’d like to leverage fewer of them to better support our environment," says Chief Information Officer Kevin Cornish.
The executive position includes oversight of the Child Welfare Digital Services Division and its key programs — the Child Welfare Services/Case Management System and the Child Welfare Services-California Automated Response and Engagement System.
The California Department of Parks and Recreation seeks a vendor to offer residents “statewide Wi-Fi ‘pay as you go’ service at pre-determined park locations,” on a 10-year contract.
The state of California earned a grade of A- in the biennial Digital States Survey, presented by the Center for Digital Government. Among its accomplishments cited were work on streamlining IT procurement, DMV transactions and access to COVID-19 resources.
The California Department of Social Services is seeking a chief technology officer, and the California Department of Technology is recruiting for an IT manager.
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