Hailed as 'one of the five most inspiring women in America' by NBC Nightly News, Bonnie St. John challenges audiences to question their own limitations and shows them how to re-energize their lives to achieve peak performance.
As an amputee, medal-winning Olympic skier, author, Rhodes Scholar, former White House official and successful businesswoman, Bonnie St. John knows a little something about facing challenges. Her remarkable success in the face of physical adversity taught her that the key to winning is not just bouncing back from obstacles, but doing so faster and more efficiently than your competitors. Bonnie’s dynamic messages guide audiences to find their individual paths to higher performance, greater productivity and overall success. Her extensive experience in a variety of industries including energy, healthcare, finance, insurance, food and beverage, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, education, government, aerospace and communications, allows Bonnie to customize each presentation with specific, pertinent tools for positive action along with focused plans for contributing to organization-wide growth and development. Participants leave Bonnie’s spirited presentations with the ultimate competitive advantage: the confidence to challenge their comfort zones…and win.
Bonnie has been featured extensively in the national and international media including Today; CNN; Good Morning America; People, Oprah, and Success magazines; and The New York Times. The best-selling author of seven books, her most recent book, Micro-Resilience: Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus, Drive and Energy, outlines a quick, easy and immediately effective program of tools and techniques to give you a competitive edge in today's dynamic world of changes and challenges.

Susan Goldberg is editor in chief of National Geographic and editorial director of National Geographic Partners. As editorial director, she leads all journalism across platforms, including digital journalism, magazines, podcasts, maps, newsletters and Instagram. She was named editorial director in October 2015 and editor in chief of National Geographic Magazine in April 2014. She is the 10th editor – and first female editor – of the magazine since it was first published in October 1888.
Under her leadership, National Geographic has been honored with nine National Magazine Awards, including four awards in 2020 and the top prize for General Excellence in 2019. In 2020, National Geographic also was named the Webby Media Company of the Year, with a total of 15 awards, as well as earning the Gold Medal as Brand of the Year for the Society of Publication Designers, the most prestigious award for visual journalism in the industry. In addition, National Geographic was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 2019 and for Explanatory Reporting in 2017. The magazine has received numerous other awards for photography, storytelling and graphics. Susan also has led reporting that was honored with multiple local, state and national awards, including the Pulitzer Prize at the San Jose Mercury News (1990/Breaking News) and a finalist for the Pulitzer at The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer (2009/Feature Writing).
Before her employment at National Geographic, Susan was executive editor for federal, state and local government coverage for Bloomberg News in Washington. From 2007 to 2010, she was editor of The Plain Dealer, the daily newspaper of Cleveland and the largest newspaper in Ohio. Prior to that, from 2003 to 2007, she was the executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News and served as the paper’s managing editor from 1999 to 2003. From 1989 to 1999, she worked at USA Today, including stints as a deputy managing editor of the News, Life and Enterprise sections. Previously, she worked as a reporter and editor at the Detroit Free Press. She began her career as a reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
A Michigan native, Susan has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University, where she now funds the Susan Goldberg Scholarship at the university’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences’ School of Journalism.
In addition to awards for journalism, Susan has been recognized repeatedly for leadership. In 2013, she was voted one of Washington’s 11 most influential women in the media by Washingtonian magazine. In March 2015, she received the Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award from Exceptional Women in Publishing. In 2017, and again in 2019, Washingtonian named her among the most powerful women in Washington across professions. In 2020, InStyle magazine included Susan on its “Badass 50” list, naming her as No. 7 in its issue about “women who are changing the world,” and she was selected as one of Folio’s Top Women in Media for having an “exceptional impact” on the direction of the industry.
Susan lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, Geoffrey Etnire, a real estate lawyer. They have one grown son.

Andrew graduated from the California State University in Chico with a degree in electronics and computer science.
He started his career in private sector, where he worked for a variety of companies managing teams of software and system engineers. In that capacity Andrew was in charge of developing enterprise applications and network architecture.
Andrew entered state service in 1991. He has worked for several departments, where he held various managerial and executive positions.
In 2001 he was appointed as the Deputy Secretary for SCSA and later GOVOPS and BCSH Agencies. He was responsible for setting policies, collaborating and coordinating technology activities at the Agencies and statewide.
Andrew established the first office of eServices for the state of California. He served as the director of that office from September of 2006 to June of 2008 where he provided leadership on initiatives to enhance electronic service delivery on the State Portal. He was also in charge of managing and supporting the growth of California’s eServices, including acting as a liaison between state agencies and departments.
Andrew was the vice chair of the Information Technology Council for State of California and was the founder/Chair of advisory board for Public Sector CIO Academy conference. He was also member of the Technology Services Board.
After retiring from state service in June of 2020, he co-founded a startup IT consulting company (AnSurTech) to help public sector provide innovative services to people of California.

Liana Bailey-Crimmins was named Chief, Office of Technology Services (OTech) and Chief Technology Officer on March 9, 2021. She leads the State’s only general-purpose data center which delivers cost effective, optimized, and highly available technical services to 300+ customer departments.
She has served the public sector for 30+ years. Prior to her current role, Liana was recruited by CalPERS as their Chief Information Officer where she became known for her ability to lead a large and diverse cross-functional organization to meet CalPERS' technology needs through innovative solutions.
In 2017, she was named CalPERS Chief Health Director and under her leadership, CalPERS adopted a set of Health Care Beliefs, implemented its value-based insurance design and established the California regions that CalPERS uses today for its regional healthcare pricing. For the last few years, Liana has served CalPERS’ Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) ensuring that member data and technology systems were protected from internal and external threats.
Prior to CalPERS, she worked as the information technology director and CIO of California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS). In 2015, she was honored with the prestigious "CIO of the Year" award from the California CIO Academy. Other honors include recognition for her work on CCHCS' Telemedicine Program, which helped them win the 2012 Computerworld Honors Program Laureate Award, and the Best of California award in the Government Technology Digital Internal category in 2011.

Mr. Basso is a Deloitte Government & Public Services (GPS) Advisory Senior Manager. He has 30 years of professional experience including ERM, strategic planning, performance management, governance, integration of ERM with cybersecurity, crisis management, and in modernizing corporate operations.
His project experience includes support to the VA, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and several other federal, state, and local government organizations.
Prior to joining Deloitte, Mr. Basso served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Planning & Performance Management and Chief Risk Officer at VA, where he was the VA lead for managing department risk across all domains including IT and Cyber. Mr. Basso is a 20-year Army veteran who served in Desert Storm and twice in Iraq.
Mr. Basso graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a B.S. in Economics. He received an M.P.A from Princeton University.

Phil Bertolini is the Co-Director of the Center for Digital Government, a national research and advisory institute on information technology policies and best practices in state and local government. Previously, he served as deputy county executive and CIO for Oakland County, Michigan. During his 31-year tenure, Phil built a world-class IT organization in the second-largest county in Michigan, just north of Detroit. As Oakland County CIO, he oversaw more than 150 employees serving over 1.2 million residents. In 2005, he was also promoted to deputy county executive, holding dual positions until his retirement. Phil’s efforts earned the county national attention, winning numerous awards for technology innovation and excellence. He was named Governing Magazine’s Public Official of the Year and Government Technology Magazine’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers. He was also honored by the President Obama White House as a Champion of Change.

June Bivins is a Strategic Account Manager for VMWare who focuses on building relationships to better understand the State of California and it's Agencies unique business challenges and requirements. June helps in developing both digital transformation and business modernization solutions that improve the quality of life for the residents of California. June leverages the VMware pool of subject matter experts to align positive outcomes to business objectives and IT Initiatives.

Scott Capulong is the Chief Information Officer of the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. In this role, Scott is responsible for the technology environment and infrastructure that supports 37 tax and fee programs and manages $74 billion in revenue. Previously, Scott served as Project Director for the Centralized Revenue Opportunity System Project, an enterprise business transformation initiative that replaced the department’s legacy systems. Scott has also held a number of leadership positions in application development and project management.

Caroline Cerf is the Adobe health & human services team lead for the State of California. Based in San Francisco, Caroline has been with the Adobe public sector practice for 3.5 years. Passionate and dedicated to the government sector, Caroline is keen to educate & partner with California organizations to explore ways in which they can leverage tools beyond Photoshop and PDF. On a daily basis, Caroline and her team are helping to deliver digital experiences that provide more accessible government services to Californian’s. This work also applies to understanding and transforming the employee experience. Caroline’s knowledge of the technology industry ranges from complex health care systems to transportation modernization efforts all the way down to the city and county level.

Neeraj Chauhan is Chief Deputy Director and Project Director of the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal) since June 2015. Chauhan has worked for the State of California since 2005, managing several complex mission critical services and implementing large projects. He was the Project Director for the CalCloud Project at the California Department of Technology. He has also served as the Network Chief with California Department of Technology responsible for providing mission-critical services to over 200 State and local government entities and as the Assistant Data Center Chief at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System leading several projects to improve Data Center services. Prior to starting his State career, Chauhan worked in the private sector implementing large system integration projects. He has a Bachelor of Engineering degree, as well as extensive training in software development and project management.

Tristian Cormier has more than 15 years of experience in IT Infrastructure Operations and Network Management for the State of California. Tristian currently serves as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Deputy CIO with full management responsibility for the SOS Data Center's operation and provides critical technology services supporting the Agency's mission, strategic goals, programs, and business objectives. He provides oversite for the Enterprise Infrastructure Services, Enterprise Software Engineering Services, Enterprise Technology Services, Enterprise Client Services, Administration and Web Support, Cloud Services, and Data Center. Before joining SOS, Tristian served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Office of Tax Appeals (OTA). Tristian was responsible for the overall management of the information technology resources for the OTA. Tristian directed the IT unit's work, including personnel in business technology management, client services, information security engineering, project management, software engineering, and system engineering. Before OTA, Tristian served as a Network Engineer, in which he was responsible for the design, implementation, and administration of the Department's Wide Area Network (WAN) and Local Area Network (LAN). He served as Project Lead on Data Center Campus and Core Designs and managed over 800 network devices and 30,000 interfaces statewide. Tristian attended California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), where he earned his Bachelor's Degree in Business. In his spare time, he enjoys playing golf and volleyball. Tristian was a three-time All-American (Sacramento State) and All-State (American River College) volleyball player.

Kevin Cornish joined Covered California as Chief Information Officer in August 2020. In this role Kevin is responsible for Covered California’s enterprise technology strategy, including digital initiatives and executive leadership of technical solutions supporting fifteen business divisions within our consumer-focused state agency. In addition, Cornish provides strategic direction for CalHEERS, California’s health benefit exchange platform – engaging with a broad range of CalHEERS stakeholders including state and federal government agencies, vendors, carriers, agents/brokers, and consumers to manage an innovative product roadmap.
Prior to this role, Cornish spent seven years with the University of California, most recently as system wide CTO in the Office of the President and earlier as CIO at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Earlier in his career, Kevin led a multibillion dollar initiative to re-engineer Kaiser Permanente’s technology infrastructure and held software development, infrastructure architecture and technology leadership roles across a diverse portfolio of private-sector companies.

Since 2019, Christopher Cruz serves as the Director and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the San Joaquin County Information Systems Division (ISD). He formulates the digital strategic mission and vision for information processing services, telecommunications, and radio dispatch for first responder support for the Sheriff’s Department and Fire municipalities; as well as coordination to thirty-one county departments.
Chris also provides executive direction for information technology strategic initiatives and operations to the CIO of San Joaquin County General Hospital. ISD currently supports a portfolio of 279 enterprise systems to enable the business functions of these 31 departments. He has a broad policy authority for the standardization of the Counties IT infrastructure, the County’s Cybersecurity Strategy, providing direction to the Chief Information Security Officer on countywide policies and procedures and the Digital Innovation Services Plan to drive transformation across the County.
In his Director role, Chris also provides leadership to the Registrar of Voters and he is responsible for implementing a new Voter Registration and Validation System and ensuring all voter functions have the highest level of security processes and procedures in place to protect voter integrity.

Paul leads all aspects of Accenture’s technology business, manages Accenture’s alliances, partnerships and senior-level relationships with leading and emerging technology companies, and leads Accenture’s Global CIO Council and annual CIO and Innovation Forum. He is a passionate advocate for gender equality in the workplace and sponsoring STEM-related including and diversity initiatives. He serves on the Board of Directors for Girls Who Code and was recognized by the Institute for Women’s Leadership with the “Guys Who Get It Award” for supporting diversity in the workplace and advancement of women, especially in technology and other STEM fields.

Patrick Dennis is the Chief Information Officer for the California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), a position he’s held since 2018. As the CIO, Dennis has overall responsibility for the information technology (IT) activities that support DPR’s critical lines of business, which includes: IT Project and Portfolio Management; Network and Client Services; Web and Application Development; IT Procurement and Contracting; and IT Infrastructure and Security Services. Additionally, Dennis is responsible for the development of the departmental IT strategic direction, and technology operational plans in support all of DPR’s business operations. Previously, Dennis had most recently served as a special projects director at the California Department of Technology (CDT). Dennis started at CDT in 2012 and served in various leadership roles including; section chief in the department’s Statewide Information Technology Project Delivery Office, Business Integration lead for the State Technology Approval Reform (STAR) Project, where he led efforts to reform the statewide policy supporting the state’s IT Project Approval Lifecycle (PAL), and served as a branch manager of CDT’s internal IT operations. Before coming to the Department of Technology, Dennis worked for nearly 20 years, in project implementation and systems testing for the Franchise Tax Board.

Maisha’s strength is developing a shared understanding within an organization of what activities must be done to achieve success and developing a set of achievable actionable steps designed to drive the change. Maisha is heralded as a strategist and industry thought leader, her innovative approach to achieving operational excellence coupled with the diversity of her experience enables her to synthesize innovative solutions for challenging problems. She is passionate about people and propelling them to purpose. Maisha also serves as an adjunct instructor for various colleges throughout California and she is often sought out as a keynote speaker for Technology conferences and workshops. As a strong advocate for the practical application of technology she serves as a member of renowned technology boards.

Currently Vice President, Partnership Solutions, NIC, Tamara Dukes originally joined in 1998, establishing Maine.gov in 1999 and then managing 7 state portals as a Regional Manager. Ms. Dukes left NIC in 2004 and worked for Imagitas, a marketing services company, managing a $150M strategic alliance with the US Postal Service. Returning to NIC in 2016, she is now working with states to develop an enterprise approach to digital government while enhancing the citizen experience. Ms. Dukes holds a BA in communication from Wheaton College.

Ann Dunkin is Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Dell Technologies. Prior to joining Dell, Ms. Dunkin was the Chief Information Officer for the County of Santa Clara. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara is the 15th largest county in the United States. Ms. Dunkin also served in the Obama Administration as the Chief Information Officer of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Ms. Dunkin is a published author, most recently of the book Industrial Digital Transformation, and sought-after speaker on the topics of technology modernization, digital services and organizational transformation. She currently serves on the OptimEyes.io Board of Advisors, the WSC Board of Directors, the Agile Government Leaders (AGL) Board of Directors and the Georgia Tech President’s Advisory Board.
She holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, both from The Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a licensed professional engineer in the states of California and Washington.

Kirke Everson is a principal in KPMG’s Federal Advisory practice based in McLean, Virgian with over 16 years of management consulting experience focusing on technology enablement, program management, process improvement, cyber security, risk management, and financial management. Kirke primarily supports the Federal Government with clients in the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and other Federal agencies. He currently serves as the Government lead for Intelligent automation for KPMG in the US. Kirke has extensive experience in leading large programs supporting technology enablement, information systems security, information technology risk management, business process reengineering and financial management in the Federal government. He also has a strong background across the full lifecycle of information technology project delivery and considerable program management experience with large government programs. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified in Risk and Information Systems Controls, Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT, a Project Management Professional and a Certified Government Financial Manager. Kirke is a member of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, Information Systems Audit and Control Association, the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Project Management Institute and the Association of Government Accountants. Kirke was also awarded the National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation in support of efforts to streamline and improve the management of the National Intelligence Program.

As an IT professional with more than 20 years of experience in the private and public sector including 12 years with the State of California, Gulrez has led several critical infrastructure and high profile complex innovative projects to successful completion. Gulrez considers himself a leader, who is always ready to take on any challenges to bridge the business and IT gap by effectively collaborating and communicating with different stakeholders. With Master’s degree in computer science, IT experience in various technologies, PMP certification, various IT certifications and continuous drive to learn new skills has helped him to face and resolve complex business issues with technology. In current role as Unit lead for Database Administration Team in Department of child support services, he has various responsibilities related to integrity, security, reliability, maintainability of department’s data assets. Gulrez is also part of core team for department's top priority initiative "Cloud migration". He believes in "lead by example", "lead by trust" and "lead with integrity".

John Goddard is the External Affairs Public Safety Director for California. He is responsible for implementing AT&T’s strategy in statewide public safety initiatives working with the AT&T California team and our FirstNet partners to communicate and enhance AT&T in the public safety government affairs arena. He supports engagement and communication with the Governor’s office, Office of Emergency Services, the State Legislature, CPUC, and other critical stakeholders engaged in the planning and response to emergencies impacting our communications networks. Prior to AT&T, John was an embedded consultant in AT&T California’s Legislative Affairs office for five years. He also served as the political affairs manager for the California Restaurant Association. He has trained in crisis and emergency risk communications with the Center for Disease Control (CDC), has a certificate in Applied Risk Communications from Harvard, and a master’s from the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law.

Barney Gomez joined the Chancellor’s Office as vice chancellor of digital innovation and infrastructure in August 2018. Gomez is responsible for improving the experience and outcomes for students at California’s 116 community colleges through technology-focused initiatives, and for delivering high-quality information technology services to the Chancellor’s Office, local colleges and students, partnering state agencies and stakeholders while also shepherding innovative practices.
With nearly 20 years of state service, Gomez comes to the Chancellor’s Office from the California Department of Health Care Services where he served as the chief technology officer and chief information officer. In his role at the Department of Health Care Services, Gomez directed and managed the department’s complex information-technology operations, and ensured that adequate information technology policies, plans, services and support were provided to all departmental programs. Prior to the Department of Health Care Services, Gomez also served as chief information officer at the California Office of Systems Integration, Operations Manager for Office of Systems Integration, chief information officer of the Department of Finance’s Fi$cal project, and interim chief information officer for the California Department of Aging. Gomez as has also served in various technical positions with the Legislative Data Center and Department of Motor Vehicles. Gomez is the recipient of the following awards from E-republic’s CIO Academy: Chief Technology Officer of the Year, IT leadership, Executive Security leadership, best mobile application, and most innovative application.

Fred Gomez was appointed CIO and Director of the Information Technology Services Division at California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in August 2018. In this role he made major improvements to the structure and operations of information technology at CPUC. Fred has over 20 years of public and private sector IT experience. He began his state service in 2009 with the Employment Development Department as a supervisor in the Infrastructure Division. In 2014 he joined Department of Transportation (Caltrans) as the Chief over the Server & Storage Management Section. In this role Fred was responsible for managing over 1500 servers for all programs Caltrans wide. Prior to state service, Fred worked in the private sector holding various IT positions of increasing responsibility from Desktop and Customer Support to IT Operations Manager accumulating over 18 years of IT knowledge, skills and experience. Fred studied Aeronautics at Arizona State University and served in the US Air Force/Reserves for 12 years. Fred is a graduate of the IT Leadership Academy and received an Outstanding Leadership award from the CIO academy in 2017.

Dustin Haisler is the Chief Innovation Officer for e.Republic. As Chief Innovation Officer, he has a strategic role to help shape the company’s products, services, and future direction. Primarily, he leads e.Republic Labs, a market connector created as an ecosystem to educate, accelerate, and ultimately scale technology innovation within the public sector. Dustin began he career at a very young age as the finance director and later CIO for Manor, TX, a small city outside Austin. He quickly built a track record and national reputation as an early innovator in civic tech, for which he was named a Government Technology Top 25 Doer, Dreamer and Driver in 2009. A member of Code for America’s original steering committee, Dustin pioneered government use of commercial technologies not before used in the public sector – including Quick-Response (QR) barcodes, crowdsourcing, and gamification. Dustin went on to the private sector to help broaden the adoption of these and other civic innovations. His work has been featured in Wired, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, Inc., and the Today Show on NBC. An in-demand speaker, he has given two TEDx speeches – one on Disrupting Government (TEDxAustin) and the other on Disrupting Education (TEDxLivermore).

As Vice President, Global Cloud Sales and Customer Success for $6B cloud data services company NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP), Lori leads a P&L of $75M and a global team of 110, pairing a newly formed team with an infrastructure and operational transformation to accelerate NetApp’s cloud strategy of achieve $1B in cloud revenue in three years. Lori Harmon is a strategic GTM executive and general manager. She consistently leads and transforms sales and customer success teams to achieve revenue targets of up to $1B for organizations of all sizes, including NetApp and Verisign. Lori is a problem solver with expertise in virtual selling and customer success as well as cybersecurity, AI, and the Internet of Things (IoT). She seeks to work with innovative businesses that harness technology, connectivity, data and security to build new products in global markets.
Lori presently serves as an independent director for SiteLock, a private company that is the global leader in website security. She also serves on two Advisory Boards: Wallarm, a provider of automated application protection and security testing and Aviso, the AI compass that guides sales and go-to-market teams to close more deals and accelerate growth. Lori is a graduate of Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business, Women’s Corporate Board Readiness Program.

Paul serves as the Consulting Network Leader for Healthcare and Government Solutions within the Advisory Services practice at KPMG. He is the Firm's Chief Subject Matter Expert for Government Healthcare and Social Services and the Lead Partner for the State of California. In this capacity he oversees the work of over 400 hundred professionals delivering services across a broad spectrum of KPMG's healthcare clients as well as State and Local Government, Not-for-profit, and Higher Education Industry sectors. He also serves in leadership capacities on some of KPMG's most significant clients including serving as the Client Executive for the States of Maine, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Hawaii and Connecticut and as a Lead Advisory Partner for the City of New York and State of New Jersey.

Travis works with organizations to define how work needs to be re-imagined, align the workforce needs and plans to the future, and how the organization’s work experience and culture must be brought to like to achieve their stated strategies.
Over the past 21 years, Travis has helped global organizations tackle large scale change with innovation, design thinking, and agility. He is known for his ability to build key relationships with executives and employees at all levels to drive impact and sustain long-term, “future-proof” results.
Travis specializes in large scale global business process and technology transformations, with a focus on Transformation Journey Management, Strategic Change and Communications, HR Strategy, Workforce Planning and Analytics, Talent, and Organization Design.

Miriam Barcellona Ingenito is the first Director of the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal) since its formal recognition as the Department of FI$Cal in July 2016. She began her tenure at FI$Cal in September 2015 with the benefit of 20 years of public policy experience in California State government. Her range of expertise includes legislative, fiscal, administrative and environmental issues. Most recently, Miriam served as the Chief Deputy Director of the Department of Toxic Substances Control from 2013 to 2015. Previously, she served as the Deputy Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency from 2011 to 2013, Deputy Director of Legislation at the California Department of Finance from 2009 to 2011 and as a principal consultant for the California Senate Committee on Appropriations from 2001 to 2009. Additionally, she held positions in policy and analysis at the California Resources Agency and the California Legislative Analyst’s Office. Miriam received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of San Francisco, and her Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.

Ashish Jain is the Chief Technology Officer of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the largest educator-only pension fund in the world with an investment portfolio valued at $282.5 billion as of January 31, 2021. CalSTRS serves more than 949,000 members and benefits recipients.
As CTO, Jain is responsible for the vision, strategic direction, policy development and management of the Technology Services Branch. Prior to joining CalSTRS, Jain served as the deputy chief information officer at California Correctional Health Care Services, which provides health care services to around 130,000 inmates throughout California’s 35 correctional institutions. Jain was responsible for the enterprise health care systems architecture; clinical application development, implementation, and operations; IT governance, policy management, and enterprise-wide strategic IT planning.
Jain has almost 25 years of experience in senior Information Technology leadership positions in both the private and public sectors. In his more than 15 years serving the State of California, he has held technical leadership positions with various state agencies including the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the Department of General Services.

Paul Kaufman has over 15 years of technical experience in system integration and optimizing business processes. He effectively manages customer relationships, both internal and external, on large scale government projects. Paul is a proponent of emerging technologies and automation to reduce operational costs, while meeting business partners’ requests. Previous projects include the implementation of CDCR Strategic Offender Management System (SOMS), California Health Benefit Exchange, and CDFW Automated Time Reporting System, where he received an award in Excellence in Project Delivery at the Project Delivery Summit.

A different kind of CIO: A servant leader who delivers technical solutions as business enablement and advantages.
Keson runs large technical programs to enhance business competitiveness and to solve business issues. Keson is fluent in both technical and business languages. Keson is currently serving as a CIO. Keson also serves as an adjunct professor in local colleges teaching Business Strategy and Computer Science. Keson enjoys reading and writing as well as giving presentations at industry events and colleges.
Keson advises start-ups on go-to-market strategy, product quality, and solution positioning.

Karl Kopper is the Caltrans Chief Information Security Officer and California Transportation Agency Privacy Security Officer responsible for developing and implementing the security policies to protect the confidentiality, availability and integrity of the systems and data used to further the mission of the Transportation Agency and Department of Transporation.
During the dot-com boom of the late 90s, Kopper helped a private logistics company headquartered in Northern California convert its main business system to an open-source software platform. Based on his experiences, he authored the book, “Linux Enterprise Cluster,” on early open-source software adoption and the challenges of using open-source software for business-critical applications in private industry. He then helped bring these security, availability and integrity techniques to the public sector for health and financial services in California before coming to Caltrans in 2016.

In December 2020, Mr. Levine joined T-Mobile for Government where he was hired as the Senior Strategic Executive and given the task of building and leading the company’s State Government Telecommunications & Technology team. Mr. Levine is also a Senior Policy Fellow at the UC Riverside School of Public Policy.
Mr. Levine is a former member of the California State Legislature, where he served as Chair of the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce. Mr. Levine established himself as one of California’s leading experts in energy, telecommunications, and technology policy. Consistently tackling some of the most challenging and signification statutory policy changes, Mr. Levine authored numerous pieces of historic legislation which became national models in many policy areas. Mr. Levine served as a member of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Broadband Taskforce and was a Founding Member of the Board of Directors of the California Emerging Technology Fund.
Mr. Levine currently serves as a Founding Member of the Advisory Board for the UC Riverside School of Public Policy, where he and the schools’s Dean, Anil Deokalikar, co-founded the Center for Technology, Policy and Society.

Loree Levy was appointed deputy director of the Public Affairs Branch at Employment Development Department (EDD) in November 2002. She oversees Media Services, Strategic Communications, and Web Business Services divisions for the Department. The Branch is responsible for media relations, marketing and brand management, social media and other digital marketing efforts, website content management, usability review and guidance, and Spanish translations. Levy works closely with Department executives, the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, and the Governor’s Press Office to release information about EDD programs and policies to the news media and to the general public about EDD’s valuable programs and services available to assist them.
Levy began her career at the EDD in April 2001, when she was appointed assistant director of the Communications Office. Prior to her appointment, she spent 15 years in television news. In the Sacramento area, she was an on-air reporter for NBC-affiliate KCRA-TV Channel 3, and a news anchor for “Good Day Sacramento” at KPWB-TV Channel 31. Levy is a native Sacramentan and holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from California State University, Sacramento.

Kevin Matsuo is the owner of KDM Consulting Services, LLC and a former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a California state agency. Matsuo retired with 35 years of state service, where he served in a number of management and executive-level Information Technology (IT) positions. Matsuo served as the CIO with the California Department of Education (CDE) for 19 years, and prior to joining CDE, he served as CIO of the California Youth Authority (CYA) in the late 1990's.
Matsuo was responsible for the application, direction, and management of IT. He provided IT leadership and strategic direction that cut across both technology and business.
Matsuo has served on a number of technology advisory boards and K-12 education steering committees. He received a BS in Business Administration, MIS from the California State University, Sacramento.

Nelson Miña is an IT Manager at the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) where he leads the Systems Engineering and Storage team. His recent activities include delivering modern IT infrastructure that enables backup restore and cloud-based disaster recovery protection, improvement of the virtualization platform, and optimizing the storage systems. He was a recipient of the prestigious State of California 2020 CIO Academy IT leadership award and a participant to the 2021 Information Technology Leadership Academy (ITLA 28). As a former systems administrator and an electrical engineer, he helps improve his organization using innovative solutions by applying disruptive problem solving and keeping up to date with the latest IT trends.
Nelson has extensive experience in Linux and Unix systems, enterprise storage systems, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), electrical, electronics and power systems. He is a registered Electrical Engineer in the Philippines, and an extra class amateur radio operator duly licensed by the US Federal Communication Commission.

Brad Minnis, CPP, is the Vice President of Environmental, Health, Safety & Security for Juniper Networks, Inc. based in Sunnyvale, California, where he is responsible for strategic design, implementation and management of the company’s security, safety, environment, crisis management, supply chain integrity, product security incident response and business continuity functions. He also manages the Corporation’s government-related security programs.
Mr. Minnis is certified as a Protection Professional by the Professional Certification Board of ASIS International and attended the University of Connecticut, where he received two certificates in Environmental, Health and Safety.

Joseph Morris is vice president of Research and a national keynote speaker on issues, trends and drivers impacting state and local government and education. He has authored publications and reports on funding streams, technology investment areas and public-sector priorities, and has led roundtables, projects and initiatives focused on issues within the public sector. Joe has conducted state and local government research with e.Republic since 2007 and knows the ins and outs of government on all levels. He received his Bachelor of Arts in government and international relations from the California State University, Sacramento.

Subbarao Mupparaju is the Chief Information Officer and Deputy Director of the Information Technology Division at the Department of Financial Information System for California (FISCal). Subbarao has 29 years of IT experience with increasing responsibilities for leading and supporting a broad range of information systems, IT and business transformation initiatives, IT operations, and enterprise architecture programs in government, retail, finance, and insurance industries. Subbarao has a Master's Degree in Engineering, Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, and various technical certifications. He is a recipient of the California CIO of the Year award, HP Most Valuable People (MVP) award, and IBM Hundred Percent Club award for his leadership and team building skills.

Steve joined DFEH in 2020 as Chief Information Officer, where he is responsible for all aspects of information technology (IT) operations, projects, and infrastructure in support of the Department’s mission. Prior to joining DFEH, Steve has served the state of California for 25 years, most recently as the Chief Enterprise Architect at the Franchise Tax Board (FTB). In that role, Steve was responsible for developing policies and standards to ensure the most efficient use of technology and to ensure alignment with strategic business objectives.

Rosanna Nguyen is the Chief of the IT Consulting Unit for the Department of Finance. Prior to this role, Rosanna served as a Fiscal Oversight Manager for the Department of Finance since 2016. Rosanna has also held IT management and analyst positions working in the areas of Project Management, Project Oversight and Enterprise Strategic Planning at the Franchise Tax Board. Rosanna has 25 years of state government service. She received a BS in Business Administration from the California State University, Sacramento.

Russell J. Nichols was appointed Deputy State CIO and CDT Chief Deputy Director in February 2021. Previously, he was Director of the Division of Enterprise Information Services at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation since 2015. He also served as the Department’s Agency Information Officer and previously as its Director of the CDCR Strategic Offender Management Systems’ Program. Nichols was responsible for the technology solutions provided to employees and offenders. Nichols oversaw more than 640 Information Technology employees while at CDCR. In 2018, the California Public Sector CIO Academy named him Chief Information Officer of the Year.

Cruz Nieto is the Director of the Project Management Office for the CA Secretary of State. She has more than 20 years experience in the public sector including multiple state departments. Her IT experience includes Chief Technology Officer for the Secretary of State and leading enterprise-wide projects from strategy development through implementation. Cruz also specializes in organizational change management with experience in communications, marketing and event planning. She graduated from Golden Gate University with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, is a native of Sacramento and also the Board Chair of the Latinas in Tech Sacramento Valley Chapter.

Leticia Oropeza is an Information Systems Analyst for the San Joaquin County Information Systems Division (ISD). She has more than 15 years of experience in the public sector including multiple county departments. She began her career with the county after graduating from The University of the Pacific with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. She currently provides project oversight and direct project management on high priority projects that will have a countywide impact. She has been instrumental in helping to oversee numerous county agencies in their transitions from legacy systems. Her adaptability, work ethic, and ability to maintain positive working relationships with stakeholders at all levels help drive organizational results. She values collaboration and has a desire to bring people together to help guide departmental transformation. Leticia considers herself a dynamic learning mindset IT Leader, continuously striving to learn new skills and an advanced understanding of how technologies assist in aligning business processes to achieve organizational goals.

In February 2016, Jaclyn Padilla accepted the Deputy Director of Human Resources position with Covered California, the nation’s first state to enact legislation creating a health benefit exchange under federal health care reform. As part of the executive team Jaclyn has successfully led the human resources branch, with a focus on creativity and innovation by successfully executing her vision to bring full cycle recruitment to the organization by establishing the Talent Acquisition and Executive Recruitment units. By leveraging industry leading technology solutions this executed vision includes the successful development of recruitment strategies, diversity partnerships, developing and executing recruiting, talent acquisition and employee relations strategies that represent the organization’s culture and values. As a member of the executive team, Jaclyn contributes directly to long and short-term strategic objectives of the organization while maximizing organizational effectiveness. She oversees the Human Resources programs and initiatives that enhance the employee experience and partners with leaders across the organization. With over 20 years of state government experience, 11 years in human resources management roles. From 2012-2016, Jaclyn served as the Chief of Human Resources at the Prison Industry Authority and as the Personnel Officer at the California Healthcare Facility and at the California State Prison at Sacramento with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Jaclyn holds an Executive leadership and Human Resources Management Certification from the University of California at Davis.

Vitaliy Panych was appointed to the State Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) role, January 2021. He has served as the State CISO in the acting capacity since the early 2019. Vitaliy has more than 18 years of public and private sector experience, including security leadership roles within three of the largest California Agencies, including the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), Employment Development Department (EDD), and the Franchise Tax Board (FTB). Under the leadership of Panych, he has established highly functional information security teams to build cyber security defenses and operational capabilities from the ground up. This includes building new security operations practices for the agencies and supporting all facets of risk management for the large scale multi-billion government programs in support of missions covering Law Enforcement, Public Safety, Medical, Educational, Financial benefit/collection and Industrial complex. Vitaliy serves on multiple academic and security accreditation boards and his education includes a bachelor’s degree from California State University, Sacramento, and possession of multitude of industry security professional certifications (CISSP, CICSP, GREM, GXPN, GPEN, GCFA).

Heather L. Pettit has over 20 years of experience working in technology. She has worked in such industries as gaming, software development, retail, service and hospitality. Her technology expertise spans all areas of IT including project management, software development, product management, quality assurance, infrastructure, service desk and education. She has worked for the California Judicial Branch for over 13 years. Prior to working as the Chief Information Officer at the Judicial Council, she was the Chief Information Officer for Contra Costa Superior Court, and the Chief Technology Officer for the Sacramento Superior Court. Highlights of her career within the Judicial branch include, the California Statewide RFP for Case Management. This effort lead to the creation of three Master Service Agreements for Case Management systems. Winner of CITOC’s Innovations Award for 2013 for Sacramento’s Public Access Program. Chair/Co-Chair of the California Court Information Technology Managers Forum and Faculty for ICM’s Managing Technology and Resources and Strategic Planning and Visioning.

Jason Piccione was appointed in November 2015. As chief information officer, he oversees Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA), Office of Information Services as well as sets direction for information technology and coordinates infrastructure and service delivery across DCA. Prior to his appointment, Piccione served as DCA’s chief technology officer. He has held various positions at the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education and the Contractors State License Board. Piccione has worked more than 15 years in public service. He obtained a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California, Davis.

As IBM’s Chief Information Officer, Fletcher Previn leads a global team of over 12,000 employees whose mission is to prioritize user experience and provide secure, global IT, at scale for ~350,000 IBM employees worldwide. The CIO organization operates in a highly centralized shared services model as IBM’s single IT department, enabling IBM's transformation to an AI and cloud platform company – a cognitive enterprise.
Under his leadership, IBM pioneered new ways of delivering IT across the world’s largest network, established an agile culture of breaking down big problems into small ones, and embedded design into operations (DesOps).
Fletcher was the first to identify opportunities that enabled IBM to offer a device choice program at the enterprise level, leading to consistently reduced IT support requests and record high customer satisfaction. This allows for new and creative ways to deliver support, including a number of Think Desks where IBMers can get personal service from experts. In October 2019, he announced IBM's plan to open source the "choice program" code to help others transform how they enable IT for employees. His team also established a program to allow employees to purchase their workstation after a four-year period which resulted in a substantial reduction of tickets for damaged machines. And, with Watson AI technology, Fletcher’s team is reducing the IT burden of managing its network of complex systems and over a half million devices.
Fletcher joined IBM in 2006 and has held several key roles in sales and technology. His extensive experience spans reinventing desktop computing environments (Windows, Mac, Linux), industry leading solutions for sellers and mobility programs, transforming IT infrastructure, delivering productivity tools and Agile transformation.
Prior to joining IBM, he managed the Enterprise Systems Group at Walmart.com.
Fletcher holds Microsoft and Cisco certifications and is a graduate of Connecticut College with a degree in Political Science.

Mike Rockenstein possesses a Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) with certifications in Project Management (PMP), Scrum Master (CSM), and Prosci. Mr. Rockenstein has over 20 years of legislative, budgetary, client and project (e.g., traditional and agile-hybrid based) management and IT consulting, sales and business development for several private and public sector entities, working with a variety of state and local government CIOs, CTO, and other leaders to help transform their IT and business programs and operations.
Mr. Rockenstein’s experience includes strategic planning, sales and business development, capture management, account and client management, business and technical analysis and fiscal planning in subject matter areas such as elections and voter registration, healthcare, transportation, non-profit, public finance, education, and other state and local government entities. This includes leading diverse and subject matter teams as a director, senior project manager, project manager, lead, and consultant in a collaborative approach, resulting in increased productivity and high morale.

Jerry is a passionate leader who is leading the Food and Agriculture department’s (CDFA) Enterprise Architecture Office for the past 2 years in the development and adaption of business and information architecture principles for greater business outcome.
Jerry has more than 23 years of public and private sector experience. With a master’s degree, he continued on to serve at one of the Office of Systems Integration (OSI) Projects for more than a decade and led several large and complex efforts in the Integrated Eligibility (IE) area of Systems Integration practice. After completion of this assignment, Jerry moved on to serve in a large life science’s industry in San Diego leading Information Management (IM) practice’s large undertakings.
After a successful stint at private sector, Jerry started his state career at CalSTRS and later moved on to CalPERS. During this span, Jerry led several projects to successful completion including Enterprise Information Management (EIM) and Technology Business Management (TBM) projects to name a few, serving from their respective Enterprise Architecture Offices of leading Pension Systems in the world. While gathering multiple core value awards and certifications, he was chosen in CalPERS first-ever ‘Emerging Leader’ Program.
In his current role at CDFA, Jerry interfaces with the Secretary, Executive Office, Division Directors, and Branch Chiefs in eliciting information and establishing an Information architecture and management plan for the Department, along with the creation and implementation of policies and procedures that conform to the architecture.

Sumi Smith has earned a reputation as a dynamic and accomplished C-level leader with expertise in building organizational strategy and vision. Her progressive experience has led to resounding success across her 27+ year career with both public and private sector. Easily able to move from high-level planning to face-to-face stakeholder engagement, she ensures that companies and shareholders enjoy the best possible results.
Since 2019, Sumi has delivered stellar results with the CA Dept. of Housing & Community Services as both the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Here, and her previous two CIO roles, she drives continued excellence across statewide technology policies, technical strategy/operations, and IT and data information security in support of critical housing initiatives. In particular, she championed innovative automation/teleworking solutions that enabled work continuity during this crisis. She also leads the incorporation of new technologies as a trusted technical resource, including electronic signature, IT service management, and data analytics. Sumi is known for her innovative problem-solving, exceptional technical knowledge, strong executive presence, and tireless work ethic.
Supporting these achievements are Sumi’s superb training qualifications and reputation in the industry as a thought leader. She possesses the Project Management Professional (PMP) designation, and she has also delivered presentations and publications to a wide array of high-profile.
Ms. Smith holds a B.S. in Engineering from Cal Poly, SLO, and is a certified PMP. She is a speaker and published author in the field of project management and has spoken for organizations such as Women in Technology International (WITI), Project Management Institute (PMI)- Sacramento Valley Chapter, CIO Academy.

Srini is a principal in Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Cyber Risk Services practice and leads the Risk and Financial Advisory (Advisory) practice for the Government and Public Services, State Local and Higher Education (SLHE) Sector. Srini has more than 33 years of technology experience, and more than 22 years of cyber experience in the areas of information security strategy, innovation, governance, identity and access management, and cyber managed services.
Srini is the co-author of the biennial Deloitte - NASCIO Cybersecurity Study publication with the National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO) since 2010. The recent publication is the 2020 Deloitte-NASCIO Cybersecurity Study and States at risk: The cybersecurity imperative in uncertain times.
Srini has served Deloitte in various leadership roles and leads the Clients portfolio for the Advisory practice in the Government and Public Services industry. He has received several Deloitte distinctions, including recognition as a “Deloitte Eminence Fellow,” a “Deloitte CIO Fellow,” and an “Industry Luminary.”

During his 29-year Franchise Tax Board (FTB) career, John has been a member of multiple departmental governance bodies and steering committees. He has been instrumental in the implementation and success of many major initiatives.
John leads a division of 1,000+ IT professionals responsible for the applications, systems, and services used to support the department’s business needs. He establishes IT direction, sets policies in consensus with the Governance Council, and helps develop long-term strategies ensuring technology efficiently meets those objectives. He provides oversight ensuring effective deployment of technology.
Previously John served as FTB’s Chief Technology Officer over Application Development and Operations. He ensured technologies and processes were in place to support the department’s programs and operations. He ensured necessary policies were developed and implemented. He worked with staff to ensure systems were stable and well-functioning, that new solutions were established in accordance with IT architectural principles, policies, and industry and state-wide best practices.

Shannon Swain currently serves as Superintendent for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Office of Correctional Education in Sacramento, California where she oversees 35 accredited adult schools and legal/recreational libraries inside California’s state prisons. She has over 35 years of experience working as a teacher and administrator in correctional education, first managing a halfway house for probationers, then leading computer-based literacy and substance abuse programs for formerly incarcerated adults in CDCR parole office programs run through the Contra Costa County Office of Education. After 24 years, she left CCCOE, then worked as a consultant to the Ministry of Justice for Chile, traveling to Santiago to train 88 prison wardens in effective instruction for adults. In 2014, she was as Deputy Superintendent for CDCR, to provide fresh leadership for the 1663 teachers and administrators in CDCR’s institutional adult schools. In 2017, she was appointed as Superintendent. She oversees Curriculum and Instruction for Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, Post-Secondary Education, Career Technical Education, Libraries, Continuing Education and Special Programs.

Teri Takai is Co-Director of the Center for Digital Government, a national research and advisory institute on information technology policies and best practices in state and local government. She worked for Ford Motor Company for 30 years in global application development and information technology strategic planning. From Ford, she moved to EDS in support of General Motors. A long-time interest in public service led her to the government sector, first as CIO of the State of Michigan, then as CIO of the State of California, and subsequently the CIO of the U.S. Department of Defense, the first woman appointed to this role. She then served as the CIO for Meridian Health Plan. She is a member of several industry advisory boards. Teri has won numerous awards including Governing Magazine’s Public Official of the Year, CIO Magazine’s CIO Hall of Fame, Government Technology Magazine’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers, the Women in Defense Excellence in Leadership Award, and the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

Amy Tong is the State Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director of the California Department of Technology. Ms. Tong is responsible for advising the Governor on the strategic management and direction of the state’s Information Technology (IT) resources. She is also responsible for establishing and implementing state IT strategic plans, policies, standards and enterprise architecture while minimizing overlap, redundancy and cost to the state by promoting efficient and effective use of IT. Ms. Tong coordinates the activities of Agency Information Officers and department CIOs for the purpose of integrating statewide technology initiatives and ensuring compliance with IT policies and standards in the areas of Digital Services, Information Security, Project Delivery, Innovation and IT Workforce development.
Ms. Tong has over 20 years of business, technology, and management experience in the public sector. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information System and a Master of Business Administration from California State University, Sacramento.

In July 2019, Kathleen Webb was appointed Chief Deputy Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Ms. Webb had been acting director of the Department of Motor Vehicles since January 2019. Prior to this, she served as the Director of Performance Improvement at the Government Operations Agency from 2017 to 2019, where she also served as Assistant Secretary for Innovation and Accountability from 2015 to 2017. Prior to joining the Government Operations Agency, Ms. Webb’s public service experience included Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for the California Public Employee Retirement System from 2012 to 2015, Director of Policy and Risk Management from 2010 to 2012 and Chief of Strategic Planning and Policy from 2009 to 2012 for California Correctional Health Care Services, Deputy Director of the Interagency Support Division at the Department of General Services from 2008 to 2009, and Director of the Governor's Office of the Insurance Advisor from 2006 to 2008. Ms. Webb also held multiple positions with State Farm Insurance from 1986 to 2006, including agency, claims management and legislative affairs. Webb is a board member of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) – Region 4, the California Prison Health Care Receivership and the California Prison Industry Authority. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Women’s Studies from UC Berkeley and a Charter Property & Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) professional designation.

Deanne Wertin has twenty-five years of experience working within and across federal, state and local, and not-for-profit organizations focused on the design and development of IT solutions that facilitate data sharing, analytics, and use to improve outcomes.
After starting her career in the U.S. Air Force and then leading commercial consulting practices serving both government and commercial health entities, she transitioned to California State service in 2018 to focus on improving health and human services system interoperability and on realizing the potential of shared data for program improvement and the increased well-being of all Californians, with an emphasis on those most in need of health and human services. Deanne holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of California in Davis, California.

Jefferson Willoughby serves as the Chief Information Officer at the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. His tenure has benefitted from over 25 years of technical experience in network, data center and managed service development prior to joining California State government. Jefferson received his Master’s degree from Sacramento State University.

Brian Wong was appointed Chief Deputy Director of the Office of Systems Integration (OSI) of the California Health and Human Services Agency on March 16, 2020.
Before joining OSI, Brian served as Chief Information Officer and Deputy Director of the Information Systems Division at the California Department of Social Services (CDSS). During his tenure, he provided executive leadership and sponsorship of multiple high-level statewide information technology projects and initiatives, including the Appeals Case Management System and the County Expense Claim and Reporting Information System.
Prior to joining CDSS, Brian served at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for 10 years in multiple roles, including Enterprise Applications Solutions and Framework Manager and Network and Communications Manager. While at DMV, he led the implementation of the DMV Website Infrastructure (WSI) Re-Architecture project, a multi-million-dollar project to modernize DMV’s online services environment.
Brian also spent time with the Oracle Corporation before joining state service.
Brian is an avid sports fan and spends most of his free time coaching and watching his children’s sporting events.