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- Officials from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and State Teachers’ Retirement System shared their priorities during an exclusive briefing Thursday.
- Both agencies are working to modernize and perfect critical systems, while keeping an eye on where new technologies can be integrated.
- Officials say they need vendor partners who understand the mission and the security sensitivity surrounding their work.
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Byrnes joined World Wide Technology this month, having most recently been affiliated with Nutanix. His previous affiliations include Fortinet, Tanium and FireEye.
Gov. Gavin Newsom suggests integrating three offices at the California Health and Human Services Agency to create a Center for Data Insights and Innovation. Among its goals would be improving data use, the use of linked data to drive policy and decisions, and knowledge management in policy areas.
The position is a Career Executive Assignment, with a monthly salary range of $10,360 to $12,341. The application deadline is Feb. 13.
A new Women in Technology Hiring Initiative in Los Angeles County is aimed at connecting at-risk and disconnected youth ages 14-24 with IT mentors and training to bolster its entry-level IT personnel.
Tyler will provide Software as a Service (SaaS) to the city, including maintenance, support and consulting, and the city will get rid of its 32-year-old legacy system. The new package has financial, human capital management, revenue, productivity and GIS components.
The department is planning the deployment of a new Criminal Booking System that should bring never-before-seen capabilities to the agency later this year.
The state's five cities that spend more than any others are, in descending order: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and Long Beach. Together, California's cities spend about $1.5 billion on IT every year.
The effort, dubbed “Girls Go CyberStart,” is designed to encourage young women from ninth to 12th grades to pursue careers in the growing (and male-dominated) field of cybersecurity. It’s being led by state Chief Information Officer Amy Tong and by Brenda Bridges Cruz, deputy director of the Office of Professional Development within CDT.
The Office of the Governor is recruiting for a Senior Software Developer, and the Department of Public Health is looking for a Principle Enterprise Architect.
The Vitals app will give police officers instant, critical information, including audio and video to show to the subject, on those vulnerable individuals who possess a Vitals beacon and come within 80 feet of an officer.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed budget for the California Department of Technology is about 10 percent larger than last year's adopted CDT budget and includes a small decrease in staffing.
Two of the positions have a job classification of IT Manager I, and the other has a classification of IT Manager II. The application deadline for all three positions is Jan. 28.
Guidehouse specialized in management consulting to governments until last October, when it acquired Navigant Consulting Inc. and added commercial consulting to its services.
The three management or supervisory positions include enterprise architect for a state agency, chief innovation officer for a city in Silicon Valley, and an IT supervisor with a Northern California county.
More than two dozen employees received an email in December containing malware, but Los Angeles County IT staff detected and contained it before the exposure of any residents' data.
Olmeda has been in public-sector technology for almost 20 years, beginning with Accenture. He's a graduate of Texas State University and is based in the Sacramento area.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed budget for FY 2020-2021, which he released Friday, includes funding for IT initiatives in CalFire as well as the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The state's chief executive also critiqued the IT modernization underway at DMV.
The state's electrical grid may be a potential target for bad actors, but the former leader of a California utility said officials have spent years and a great deal of money hardening the system.
In testimony to state lawmakers, Mark Ghilarducci, director of the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, critiqued telecommunications networks after a lone downed cable snarled holiday air traffic.
In a statement, the Financial Information System for California said it has delivered 93 percent of system functionality to the state and has 152 departments and "more than 18,000 end users processing $305 billion in expenditures" annually through FI$Cal.
The board is set to vote Thursday on a project that would add Wi-Fi and Bluetooth infrastructure, improving the cellular network and providing a wireless Internet connection at all stations and on board its new Fleet of the Future trains. Construction would start immediately; it may take five years to finish.
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