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The California Department of Technology and the Franchise Tax Board are both looking for leadership for critical technology programs.
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Sumi Smith, who had held those roles and also was a deputy director, has left the department, Techwire has learned. Andrea Hoffman of the California Department of Technology has been named interim CIO.
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Enterprise systems, network engineering, business applications and Web services are among the IT needs that Mayor Eric Garcetti is proposing in his new budget.
Long Beach will deploy an enterprise document management system from Laserfiche, expanding its deployment of the company's technology and facilitating its anticipated move into a new City Hall this summer.
His background includes solutions architecture, major accounts management, subject matter expertise and Storage as a Service.
After a successful six-year pilot, the Department of Water Resources seeks funding to expand its Airborne Snow Observatory program statewide.
The post rebuts what it calls three misperceptions about state IT projects — that more state IT projects fail than succeed, that state IT projects don’t stick to their plans, and that the state overspends on IT projects.
The LA Found Initiative, launched in October by Los Angeles County, deploys radio tracking to watch over at-risk adults.
Don Michie says his areas of expertise include formulating strategic long-range plans, change management and change leadership, enterprise architecture, IT operations management, and management of portfolios, programs and projects.
As investigations continue into alleged fraud in IT contracts, Los Angeles Controller Ron Galperin issued a report calling on officials to enhance agency-level and citywide oversight of such pacts.
FI$Cal Director Miriam Barcellona Ingenito offers an update on her department's progress and notes that it's at 97 percent of participation. The timeline to complete the final 3% of state agency functionality, initially set for this July, has been extended until July 2020. FI$Cal is a state government department that's governed by a committee comprising the State Controller's Office, the State Treasurer's Office, the Department of Finance and the Department of General Services.
Timely planning, good inter-agency working relationships, and leaning on technology helped the city of Ventura and Ventura County in their response to the 2017 Thomas Fire and subsequent wildfires.
Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore and department officials have decided to shutter Operation LASER, started roughly eight years ago to increase police presence in crime hot spots and identify offenders. A civilian oversight panel recently questioned the effectiveness of such data-driven strategies.
Public agencies have become more sophisticated in their use of social media, maturing from mid-2000s YouTube experiments to fully fledged online programs that drive citizen engagement.
Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka, in an essay written for USA Today and excerpted here, writes that government in the digital age should show online respect for citizens and their time. They'd have more faith in the system and be more likely to vote, she says.
A new group will accept input from stakeholders with diverse interests affected by state policies that govern emerging technologies, privacy, business, the courts, the legal community, and state government.
In a measure of governments' IT spending, California and its counties and cities are among the top nationwide. Here's a breakdown.
The sales veteran previously worked in book sales before getting into the IT field more than 10 years ago.
Cruz Nieto, the inaugural chief technology officer at the California Secretary of State's Office, said the agency intends to explore new roles for its award-winning chatbot; and continue automation and financial information projects.
In a little over two weeks, Marin County will conduct what is hoped to be the final test of the new system using payroll data from March, simultaneously running the data through its new and existing systems — the 11th time it will have conducted such a parallel run.
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