Ron Ridderbusch, a fixture in State of California IT circles for almost 30 years, has announced that he is leaving Microsoft after 14 years with the Redmond giant. Ron was a great colleague and tremendous asset as my chief deputy at the Department of Information […]
Ron Ridderbusch leaving Microsoft
October 29th, 2014 by admin
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Tags: John Thomas Flynn, Ron Ridderbusch, State of california IT, TechLeader.TV, microsoft
Ron Ridderbusch leaving Microsoft
Microsoft expanding IT training program for active-duty service members
July 29th, 2014 by admin
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Tags: John Thomas Flynn, Microsoft is expanding its IT training program for active-duty service members, TechLeader.TV, microsoft
Microsoft expanding IT training program for active-duty service members
Microsoft is expanding its IT training program for active-duty service members to Camp Pendleton, Calif., and Fort Hood, Texas, the tech giant announced July 28. Microsoft introduced the program in November for service members looking for jobs outside the military. Professors from Saint Martin’s University […]
What’s this: Senate President Steinberg Outing Microsoft State Business over Kings’ Sale
January 22nd, 2013 by admin
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Tags: John Thomas Flynn, Sacramento Kings, Steve Ballmer, TechLeader.TV, darrell Steinberg, microsoft
What’s this: Senate President Steinberg Outing Microsoft State Business over Kings’ Sale
Have to file this under the theme of unintended consequences. Not to mention rather odd… Senator Darrell Steinberg whom I flew to DC with this week is expressing his displeasure at the reported Sacramento Kings sale to a Seattle group which includes Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer […]
State of Washington has a new CIO, from a familiar source.
November 16th, 2011 by admin
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Tags: Bharat Shyam, John Thomas Flynn, State of Washington CIO, TechLeader.TV, microsoft
State of Washington has a new CIO, from a familiar source.
First, former Microsoft exec becomes Federal CIO, now State of Washington has a Redmond veteran as well. Former Microsoft GM Bharat Shyam named state CIO
Former Microsoft Exec Named as new Federal CIO
August 5th, 2011 by admin
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Tags: Federal CIO, John Thomas Flynn, TechLeader.TV, VanRoekel, Vivek Kundra, microsoft, ridderbusch
Former Microsoft Exec Named as new Federal CIO
Early rumors about President Obama’s appointment of a Microsoft executive to replace Vivek Kundra as the federal Chief Information Officer caused quite the titillation here in Sacramento last week. The state and vendor IT community here had speculated that one of our own, former Chief […]
California Enterprise eMail Awarded to CSC-Microsoft, Setting up War of the CSC hosted Cloud vs State Data Center hosted eMail
October 18th, 2010 by admin
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Tags: Adrian Farley, California eMail, John Thomas Flynn, Sam Diaz, Takai, competitive government, google, microsoft, microsoft Google email war, state computer systems, state email
California Enterprise eMail Awarded to CSC-Microsoft, Setting up War of the CSC hosted Cloud vs State Data Center hosted eMail
The long awaited State of California enterprise email contract was officially signed last week ending more than a year of state planning and procurement activity to consolidate over 100 email systems for its over 200,000 state users. The somewhat tortuous path finally led to a […]