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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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As the presidential election nears this November, online threats from ballot interference to large-scale ransomware attacks threaten all levels of government, and the stakes have never been higher.
Senior consultants Jeff Neithercutt and Mike Coatsworth both have more than two decades’ experience in the cybersecurity area in the public and private sectors.
The two-hour hearing was led by Pedro Nava, chairman of the commission, and included comments and insights from LHC commissioners as well as two members of the private sector.
“From where we sit, this is an old story. Corporations that are not really invested in the community come helicoptering in, bearing gifts, but what they’re taking away is much more valuable,” said Dr. Noha Aboelata, CEO of Roots Community Health Center, an East Oakland clinic that serves mostly African Americans and is one of the original Verily sites in Oakland.
Higher education institutions make up 29 of 34 recipients of portions of the $4 million settlement, announced by the Office of the Attorney General; however, the state of California will receive the most restitution, at nearly $2.8 million.
Kern County expanded its relationship with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to facilitate a move off legacy, stabilize spend on data storage and improve visibility on metrics. Deployment of a new platform is also expected to yield a savings for the far-flung government.
“Machine learning did not advance as rapidly as (proponents) thought it would,” said Jesse Halfon, an automotive attorney.
The position, which reports to Director of Innovation Dolan Beckel, “requires a broad set of skills including strategic thinking, negotiation, telecommunications experience, public policy, team leadership and public collaboration.”
“ODI is like a start-up inside the Government Operations Agency,” the job posting says. “We’ll work collaboratively with state agencies, departments and offices to improve digital services for Californians."
Stephanie Tom and Andrea Spears, two deputy directors in the California Department of Technology, both were named to continue in their leadership roles — Tom in Broadband and Digital Literacy, and Spears in the Office of Statewide Project Delivery.
Software support renewals were among the California Department of Technology’s top five most expensive buys of IT goods in September — but a larger-scale purchase heads the list.
The state Department of Developmental Services awarded five contracts worth more than $250,000 each for IT goods during the first six months of this year.
“I really challenged my team to come up with a new vision for the L.A. County Open Data Platform,” said county CIO Bill Kehoe. “I really felt like Open Data L.A. County had become stale. We really had lost our purpose from the original inception, and we really needed a refresh."
The public-private partnership between Beam Global and the city of San Diego could be a blueprint for climate-conscious governments as they grapple with constrained budgets amid the coronavirus pandemic.
At the fourth annual State of California Virtual Cybersecurity Education Summit, Franchise Tax Board Principal Security Architect Ronald Mendoza discussed potential ways to enhance cybersecurity.
Rollout of the county’s Administrative Technologies of Marin (ATOM) project, which encompasses aspects of finance, payroll and human resources, has taken longer than expected but may realize a savings. Full implementation of its final phase is set for Jan. 8.
Jon Kirkham, chief information officer at the California Department of Rehabilitation, shares his definition of digital transformation and discusses the ongoing Vocational Rehabilitation Connections Project as well as priorities for 2021.
The group, Women in Technology at the University of California, Irvine, finds its origins in part in its founder’s realization “ ... that we need more of us to be at the table, participating in projects, being in the classroom.”
The Information Technology Leadership Academy is open to state and local government workers at the management and supervisory levels who aspire to move into an executive or senior leadership position. Prospective participants must be nominated by their chief information officer.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has released a Request for Offer seeking an IT infrastructure modernization specialist to assist the agency for at least two years.
Vitaliy Panych, acting state chief information security officer, and Jonathan Nunez, commander of the California Cybersecurity Integration Center, discussed strategies for deploying and maintaining effective cybersecurity at the State of California Virtual Cybersecurity Education Summit.
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