Experience

Strategic Technology & Portfolio Advisor

California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS) | August 2026 – Present

Serve as expert-level advisor to CalHHS leadership on technology resiliency, portfolio alignment, and investment prioritization.

• Scope: Independent strategic assessments of technology resiliency, portfolio alignment, and investment prioritization across mission-critical systems

• Responsibility: Evaluate business process dependencies, technical debt exposure, and workforce capability gaps

• Complexity: Advise at the agency-leadership level on sustaining operational continuity amid evolving risk

• Leadership Breadth: Direct advisor to Office of Technology and Solutions Integration (OTSI) senior leadership on portfolio governance practices

• Outcomes: Strengthened agency-wide technology stability and long-term strategic alignment
  
  

Associate Vice President, Information Technology & Chief Information Officer

California State University, Stanislaus | March 2025 – August 2026

Led the Office of Information Technology, overseeing strategy, development, and operations of administrative, academic, instructional, and telecommunications systems university-wide.

• Scope: University-wide IT strategy, development, and operations across administrative, academic, instructional, and telecommunications systems

• Responsibility: Chaired the cross-departmental AI Task Force to advance responsible AI adoption in teaching and learning

• Complexity: Balanced infrastructure modernization with day-to-day operational continuity across a full university campus

• Leadership Breadth: Directed a full refresh of desktop and laboratory computing infrastructure

• Outcomes: Launched the Stanbooks program, giving students day-one electronic access to course textbooks

Deputy Secretary & Agency Chief Information Officer

Government Operations Agency | April 2024 – March 2025

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

• Outcomes: Launched and landed the first GenAI projects in the state. Helped respond to LA Fires in 2025
  
  

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