Workforce & People
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Officials have formally named Bryce Bailey the state’s chief information security officer, elevating him from the interim role after nearly a month in place. Cybersecurity, he said, “is a long game.” -
Elizabeth Crowe, the city’s director of urban analytics and innovation, has been selected to serve as interim chief innovation and technology officer, a role formerly held by Stephanie Wernet.
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Tekquell Watson has more than 25 years of military and federal experience, including senior technical and leadership roles. She will oversee technology operations across the consolidated city-county government.
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The newly created position in Pennsylvania will report directly to the chief information officer, with the state’s online job opening for the gig set to close for new applicants on Aug. 2.
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A targeted phishing cyberattack on the Department of Human Services in January compromised 645,000 records and 2 million emails. The agency has been working with the new CISO to fortify its cybersecurity in the months since.
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Job displacements will not happen through robotic rapture. Instead, shrinkage will occur through attrition and reduced hiring. Either a job will simply become obsolete or end up being performed by a software program.
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Forced to compete with local tech companies, the city has issued an RFP for a major hiring modernization project within its Department of Human Resources, with the goal of hiring better tech talent, faster.
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The military’s torpid response has been caused by bureaucratic inertia, the political dominance of traditional weapons and a failure to comprehend how rapidly warfare is changing in the modern world.
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After the departure of CIO Jerry Driessen, the Hennepin County, Minn., Board of Commissioners chooses new CIO Glen Gilbertson, who has more than 23 years of experience working within the county.
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The city has selected Nicollette Staton, who has served as the interim chief performance officer and director of the Office of Performance and Data Analytics for Cincinnati since the role was vacated in February.
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Parkland College is getting support from the tech giant in training IT support staff. The six-credit-hour course is being offered to help fill a need for people trained to provide entry level tech support, officials say.
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Now-former Chief Data Officer Maksim Pecherskiy has left city service after nearly five years in the role. He says he plans to focus on side projects, which include building custom private-sector software.
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The former Fort Collins chief information officer said that he pursued the Loveland position because he was attracted to the challenge the nearby city offered. His first day will be July 22.
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The controversial decision to eliminate the state's chief information security officer has inspired criticism, though state officials have promised a continued commitment to cybersecurity efforts.
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West Coast companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Uber are recruiting students well before they graduate, leaving the public sector high and dry. But it is smaller tech companies that are escalating the bidding war.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature turned the Agency for State Technology into the Division of State Technologies, placing it under the Department of Management Services. Now, leadership is being named.
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In the past five years in the state, tech-related jobs in analytics grew 40 percent, engineering grew 18 percent and tech installation and maintenance grew 16 percent. And this double-digit growth only seems to be trending up.
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The security challenges governments face continue to evolve. And while the stakes are higher than ever before, the responsibilities of public- and private-sector chief information security officers remains the same.
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Michael Leahy, Maryland Secretary of Information Technology, explains his approach to cybersecurity, the challenges of competing with the private sector for tech talent and how he’s handling privacy concerns.
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In an expected turn of events, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation to roll the Agency for State Technology into the Department of Management Services. The new iteration will be called the Division of State Technologies.
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Six states, as well as three of the largest cities and counties in the U.S., are either lacking a chief information officer or have the position filled only in an interim capacity at the moment.
