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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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Russ Nichols, chief information officer and director of Enterprise Information Services at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, discusses how the role of CIO at his department has transformed to that of a business leader, and looks at tech's potential for positive change within the agency.
Teams from the California departments of Technology and Public Health continue to “work around the clock to address the underreporting issue,” a Public Health spokeswoman said.
“As an organization built primarily around the collection, storage and usage of public data owned by other entities, the Department of FI$Cal has important responsibilities in this data-driven world. Those responsibilities include balancing the security and privacy needs of our users against their ability to conveniently use data for their business needs against the public’s right to see how government spends its money.”
In a letter Wednesday, more than half the members of the California Legislature called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to begin paying residents immediately in many cases where unemployment claims have been stalled in the Employment Development Department's system. The lawmakers also suggested several possible technological changes and updates to the system, which has come under considerable scrutiny recently.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles’ top five of 67 purchases of IT services this year – through July 31 – appear to reflect its ongoing technological modernization. The relatively short contract terms could also indicate an increased nimbleness and potential to pivot.
When the statewide municipal IT group's previous leader, Fullerton IT Manager Helen Hall, retired July 31, the Roseville CIO moved up from the vice presidency to the presidency.
The state’s capital city is seeking responses to two Requests for Application, in hopes of closing its digital divide and connecting residents who may be sidelined by the pandemic to IT jobs. The initiatives are backed by funding from the Coronavirus Relief Fund passed by Congress as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
The Rocklin-based IT professional joined Dell in January as a senior sales executive. He said he now plans to “evangelize the entire Dell Technologies portfolio of brands” to state agencies and departments.
Shapiro, based in the Bay Area, joined NetApp last month after more than nine years with Verizon Enterprise Solutions, where he began as an account executive and moved into increasingly responsible positions, including managing partner for California SLED/Public Sector and then director and general manager for U.S. SLED/Public Sector.
Expertise with solutions, and with using the Salesforce suite of tools, is a requirement for this Los Angeles-based position.
Evolv, which has worked with Oakland International Airport and a transit authority in Southern California, has started offering technology to screen people for elevated temperatures associated with COVID-19.
Ureta, who's been with Fortinet for four years, continues building its presence "one relationship at a time," focusing in part this year on keeping remote work secure.
Ross describes herself as “a cyber enthusiast with over 25 years of experience in Security and Networking helping my clients to learn, embrace and trust in their partnerships with me and my technology partners.” Her focuses include cloud computing and security.
The California Department of Public Health confirmed the undercounting in an update to its dashboard after individual counties, including in the Sacramento area and Southern California, reported earlier in the week that they’d been made aware of the problem.
The two executive positions are among several specialized roles in recruitment by the state. Others include a chief information security officer and a systems enterprise architect.
In a Request for Proposals issued July 27, a top West Coast port indicated that it's seeking assistance in data classification and digital rights — areas with significance for risk management, compliance and securitizing sensitive information.
Los Angeles and other California cities "want data that the police would need a warrant to get." Los Angeles has been taken to federal court on this exact issue, but a trial has yet to begin.
The judging panel is composed of top government IT officials selected from state agencies, local government and higher education. The judges will consider a variety of aspects when evaluating entries, including Productivity/Performance, Innovation (Wow Factor), Functionality, Savings/Value Add and Usage Rate.
With a longtime friend who's now a business partner, the newly retired dean of state technology executives has hung out the consultancy shingle and returned to his roots in the private sector.
The nation's most populous county will seek IT contractors later this summer or in early fall, an official said Thursday. The agency is also using technology to change how it does business during the COVID-19 pandemic, to keep employees and vendors safe.
The director of the Employment Development Department told members of a California State Assembly budget subcommittee that a “longer-term solution” is needed to address issues with the agency’s tech infrastructure.
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