• VOD TechLeader.TV with Elaine Howle, California State Auditor; SEPT 15, 2015; 11:30 AM PT

    August 24th, 2015 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , ,
    VOD TechLeader.TV with Elaine Howle, California State Auditor; SEPT 15, 2015; 11:30 AM PT

    Next Program SEPT 15, 2015 with Elaine Howle California State Auditor Live Webcast Hosted By John Thomas Flynn Elaine M. Howle is California’s independent State Auditor who serves the State of California by providing accurate, unbiased, and timely assessments of financial and operation aspects of […]

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    State CIO Letter to BOE/CROS Officials Explains Reasoning for Delaying Project

    July 16th, 2015 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
    State CIO Letter to BOE/CROS Officials Explains Reasoning for Delaying Project

    It appears that the rationale for the State CIO to delay BOE’s Centralized Revenue Opportunity System (CROS) Project, preventing CROS officials from releasing their RFP earlier this month as they had planned, was the lack of a “master schedule”.  As State CIO Carlos Ramos wrote: […]

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    State Auditor Reports Troubling FI$CAL Rollout

    January 9th, 2015 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , ,
    State Auditor Reports Troubling FI$CAL Rollout

    The state’s giant, new $700 million financial system, FI$CAL, had its first, staged rollout or Wave on July 1, 2014. Until now little had been heard about its success; however, a new State Auditor report released today expressed some significant concerns. Apparently over half the […]

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    TechLeader.TV with Davood Ghods, Chief of the Office of Technology Services (OTech); OCT 30, 2014 at 11:30 AM PT

    October 1st, 2014 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
    TechLeader.TV with Davood Ghods, Chief of the Office of Technology Services (OTech); OCT 30, 2014 at 11:30 AM PT

    Next Program with Davood Ghods Chief Office of Technology Services (OTech) Live Webcast Hosted By John Thomas Flynn with Special Guest Davood Ghods Chief, OTech Davood oversees approximately 800 FTE’s within the OTech divisions of Operations, Engineering, Customer Delivery, Statewide Telecommunications and Network, Security Management, […]

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    TechLeader.TV with Carlos Ramos, State CIO; September 25, 2014 at 11:30 AM PT

    September 11th, 2014 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , ,
    TechLeader.TV with Carlos Ramos, State CIO; September 25, 2014 at 11:30 AM PT

    Next Program with Carlos Ramos Chief Information Officer State of California Live Webcast Hosted By John Thomas Flynn with Special Guest Carlos Ramos State CIO Topics to be discussed will include: The new IT Project Approval process – State Technology Approval Reform (STAR) New Organizations […]

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    TechLeader.TV with Gigi Smith, Caltrans CIO, NOV 7, 2013, 11:30 AM PT

    October 29th, 2013 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , ,
    TechLeader.TV with Gigi Smith, Caltrans CIO, NOV 7, 2013, 11:30 AM PT

    Next Program with Gigi Smith CIO, Caltrans Live Webcast Hosted By John Thomas Flynn with Special Guest Gigi Smith Caltrans is by far the largest state transportation department in the U.S. with an annual operating budget of $13 billion and 20,000 employees. In addition, Caltrans […]

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    State CIO Ramos to Testify at Senate Hearing Today on Controller’s 21st Century Payroll Project

    August 15th, 2013 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
    State CIO Ramos to Testify at Senate Hearing Today on Controller’s 21st Century Payroll Project

    State CIO Carlos Ramos and representatives from the Controller’s Office, LAO, and the State of California Task Force on Re-Engineering IT Procurement for Success are scheduled to testify today at Senator Richard Roth’s Senate Subcommittee #4 on State Administration and General Government following “Adjournment of […]

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    TechLeader.TV with Ron Hughes, Director, California Office of Technology Services, APR 11, 2013

    March 23rd, 2013 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , ,
    TechLeader.TV with Ron Hughes, Director, California Office of Technology Services, APR 11, 2013

     Next Program with Ron Hughes Director, California Office of Technology Services Live Webcast Hosted By John Thomas Flynn with Special Guest Ron Hughes Ron Hughes was appointed Director of the Office of Technology Services (OTech) in April of 2012. OTech has over 800 employees and […]

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    State by State: Implementation of Obama Health Law for 50 million Uninsured. What could Go Wrong?

    March 21st, 2013 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , , , ,
    State by State: Implementation of Obama Health Law for 50 million Uninsured. What could Go Wrong?

    Snapshot from AP via the NYT about states’ Health Insurance Exchanges and Medicaid expansion. Glaringly, in my opinion, no word on whether states will make the Obamacare deadline just over six months away on October 1, 2013 to have enrollment and eligibility systems up and […]

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    LA Times Reports on DMV IT Modernization Project

    February 15th, 2013 by admin Categories: Blogs Tags: , , , , , ,
    LA Times Reports on DMV IT Modernization Project

    Some further details reported on the DMV project with an inaccurate quote attributed to me. I stated that there were a cascade of problems that befell the 21st Century Project, not a cascade of project failures. SACRAMENTO — California’s computer problems, which have already cost […]

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