Experience

Deputy Secretary & Agency Chief Information Officer

Government Operations Agency | 2024 – Present

Led agency-wide technology strategy and governance across a multi-department public-sector enterprise.

• Scope: Executive oversight of information technology strategy, governance, and policy across departments, boards, and commissions

• Responsibility: Partnered with ten Chief Information Officers to coordinate enterprise technology, staffing, and telecommunications resources

• Complexity: Operated in a highly regulated, multi-stakeholder environment with competing priorities and statewide impact

• Leadership Breadth: Served as Managing Director for Governor Newsom’s Executive Order on Generative Artificial Intelligence, responsible for delivery of statewide GenAI pilot projects

Deputy Director, California Critical Services Office

California Department of Technology | 2021 – 2024

Built statewide capability to identify and stabilize risks to critical public services.

• Scope: Directed the Technology Stabilization Fund and Technology Modernization Fund, overseeing a combined $50M investment portfolio

• Responsibility: Led proactive assessment of statewide systems supporting essential public services

• Complexity: Balanced urgent service stabilization with long-term modernization across diverse departments

• Leadership Breadth: Influenced enterprise digital investments valued in the billions through funding, governance, and advisory leadership

• Outcomes: Assessed 15+ critical systems and delivered 20+ enterprise modernization investments in two years

Branch Chief, Project Approvals & Oversight

California Department of Technology | 2017 – 2021

Led statewide IT project planning, approval, and governance functions.

• Scope: Managed a professional team supporting IT planning and approvals for agencies, departments, boards, and commissions statewide

• Responsibility: Oversaw IT project, product, and budget approvals and agency portfolio reviews

• Complexity: Navigated policy, fiscal, and political constraints across executive, legislative, and departmental stakeholders

• Leadership Breadth: Advised CIOs, Agency Information Officers, departmental executives, the Governor’s Office, and the Legislature

• Outcomes: Reduced average planning execution time by 60% and supported 300+ modernization projects over four years

Chief Information Officer

California Department of Community Services and Development | 2014 – 2017

Led departmental technology strategy and operations aligned to mission outcomes.

• Scope: Executive responsibility for IT planning, acquisition, operations, and enterprise systems

• Responsibility: Led multidisciplinary teams of engineers, analysts, testers, and support personnel

• Complexity: Balanced operational reliability with modernization in a mission-driven environment

• Leadership Breadth: Partnered with program leadership to align technology investments with the department’s strategic plan

• Outcomes: Increased internal customer satisfaction by 20% in the first year

Section Chief, Informatics, Data Exchange & Applications

California Department of Public Health | 2008 – 2014

Built and led enterprise application teams supporting statewide public health programs.

• Scope: Oversaw application support for enterprise-wide public health systems

• Responsibility: Assembled and led teams of business, IT, and vendor partners

• Complexity: Supported systems critical to laboratory reporting, disease surveillance, and immunization records

• Leadership Breadth: Delivered solutions serving thousands of users across California’s public health ecosystem

• Outcomes: Teams received national recognition for excellence in project delivery and implementation