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Oversee all areas of information technology at the Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner

As the Manager of Forensic Data Information Systems, oversee all areas of Information Technology for the Coroner and manage a staff of three AnalystsWork closely with the Coroner’s executive management team to identify business needs and alignment with department and county goals and document these in the Business Automation PlanRepresent the department’s IT concerns at regular meetings of ISAB and the CIO and, when needed, at CEO Budget Hearings and Public Safety Cluster Agenda Review meetingsFacilitate the exchange of Coroner case information with various agencies such as the Public Health, the Inter-agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect (ICAN), and the Consumer Product Safety Commission which is used to effect policy changes that can improve the constituents’ quality of lifeCoordinated the Coroner’s migration to centralized IT Shared Services (ITSS) resulting in improved management of personal computers, enhanced compliance with county security policies, and increased support coverage (from business hours to 24/7)Implemented the State Department of Health Services’ Electronic Death Reporting System (EDRS) at the Coroner which greatly reduced the time it takes to produce and sign a death certificate by eliminating paper certificates and making the process all electronicReceived both a STARS and SuperSTARS award from the Board of Supervisors for ensuring efficient, effective, and goal-oriented service delivery systems through the implementation of the Electronic Death Reporting SystemImplemented various e-Commerce applications for the Coroner including online seminar registration and an enhanced Skeletons in the Closet website which resulted in reduced hosting charges and a store front that can be easily maintained by the end-usersDeveloped a comprehensive requirements document/system overview and a strategic roadmap for the design and development of a new Electronic Case File System (ECFS) to replace the current case management system (CME)

Lead technical analyst of network application support team located in Cerritos, handling all infrastructure support for Information System Advisory Body (ISAB), Department of Consumer Affairs and the Office of Affirmative Action Compliance. Network Administrator for ISAB and Information Systems Support Division (ISSD), managing a small staff of support analysts who maintain customer IT services. This Cerritos location consists of 24 servers and 30 client workstations, supporting development and internal processing of several windows based client server applications such as Drug Court, LADOX and CCHRS.Customer representative to County-wide IT committees (ISSC, C_CERT) dealing with security, anti-virus and IT policies.Designed and implemented a stable IT environment to support ISAB’s application development efforts as well as supporting ISAB’s internal processes.Project coordinator for migration of Cerritos LAN environment from Windows NT domains to Windows 2003 Active Directory. Project coordinator for ISAB email server migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003.Project coordinator for conversion of ISAB Law Library from Novell Netware 5 to Citrix running on Windows 2000.

Assumed responsibility for the ISAB Law Library and wrote additional scripts to support Windows NT and Windows 98Conducted evaluation of ad-hoc query and reporting tools for the Public Defender Defense Management SystemPerformed technical study of electronic mail and document management systems for the Office of the Public Defender.Assigned responsibility for the ISSD and ISAB LANs in Cerritos and successfully migrated the LANs from Token Ring to EthernetImplementation and support of the ISSD GroupWise electronic mail systemEvaluation and Support of ISAB Video Conference Scheduling system Implementation and support of Windows environments needed for Drug Court Management Information System and the Legacy System Web Enablement Proof-of-Concept projects

Developed Public Defender Computer Equipment Inventory system using DBASE IV including new forms and procedures for conducting the inventoryCreated WordPerfect macros to generate documents and forms pre-populated with information from the Public Defender’s Attorney Caseload Management System databaseAssisted the Public Defender with the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) Wiring Project, by preparing site floor plans and identifying locations for data jack installations. Performed site visits to verify all data jack installations for location and labeling. Provided reconciliation of actual data jack inventory to ISD billing to identify any errors.Planned, organized, and coordinate the distribution of Public Defender computer equipment including supervising staff, configuring and upgrading PCs, and preparing purchase ordersProvided technical consulting to Public Defender management which included evaluating hardware and software and developing hardware and software installation standards

Developed and tested various functions for the Superior Court’s Automated Case Tracking System (ACTS), a client-server system written in EASEL on OS/2.

Performed system maintenance on the Contagious Disease and Tuberculosis Tracking System (CDTBS) and Venereal Disease Registry System (VDRS) CICS/IMS Mainframe Systems for Department of Health ServicesMigrated system reports from Mark IV to mainframe FOCUS