Carlos Quant Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, California, United States

Sacramento, California

• Advisor to the Agency Secretary on Information Technology matters.• Oversee the Agency’s information technology projects portfolio.• Ensure that technology investments are in conformance with Enterprise Architecture standards • Development and vetting of statewide IT policy.• Ensure compliance with statewide information technology policies and legislative mandates.• Represent the Agency is statewide IT initiatives and taskforce engagements.

Sacramento, California

• Established the planning arm of the FTB Technology Services Division, bringing together functions such as Portfolio Management, Project Management, Enterprise Architecture, Business Intelligence, Performance Metrics and Service Planning into one cohesive organization to support key initiatives articulated in the FTB Strategic Plan.• Chaired the Technology Action Committee, an arm of the FTB governance framework charged with the prioritization of enterprise-wide technology investments and addressing operational, tactical and strategic matters.• Member of the Resource Allocation Action Committee, an arm of the FTB governance framework charged with the allocation of funds and staff to address enterprise needs. Represented the interests of the Technology Services Division, securing funding and staff resources for technology initiatives through negotiations with the FTB Chief Financial Officer and other committee members.

Sacramento, California

• Directed all network and telecommunications operations, including Private Branch Exchange, Local/Metro/Wide Area Networks, and Interactive Voice Response System.• Successfully commissioned network and telephony services in a new campus facility totaling 1.8 million square feet with no disruption to business, on budget and on schedule.• Implemented a quality assurance process for moves, adds and changes of telephony services to meet or exceed customer expectations 98% of the time or better.• Sponsored and directed the implementation of a cutting-edge network infrastructure initiative to improve network availability, reliability, scalability and security to support the processing of over 13 million tax returns, and the collection of over $25 billion in tax revenues. • Achieved network availability in excess of 99.99% over my last five consecutive years of tenure. • Served as Captain of the FTB Computer Incident Response Team (modeled after the US-CERT). Led multidisciplinary teams and successfully managed network security incidents. Developed strategies to minimize threat exposure.

Sacramento, California

• Directed the development and maintenance of mission critical applications and databases.• Served as Technology Advisor to the DWR Governance Board.• Oversaw the development of Feasibility Study Reports and gained control agencies approval.• Managed multidisciplinary project teams including analysts, programmers, DBAs and SMEs.• Managed consultant contracts and staff.

Sacramento, California

• Led multidisciplinary teams in the development of various Management Information Systems including integrated sets of tools for managing: a) maintenance activities of the State Water Project facilities; and b) allocation, tracking, usage and maintenance of major mobile equipment supporting the construction and maintenance activities of aqueduct facilities.• Implemented a standardized work breakdown structure to plan and track the progress of application development projects.• Led the evaluation and selection of enterprise client server application development tools.

Sacramento, California

• Programming in BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL, JCL, TRS and XEDIT on CDC Cyber 720 mainframe computer.• Taught programming languages to DWR’s engineering staff.• Researched and evaluated computer network technologies including Ethernet and Token Ring; as well network media including coaxial, twisted-pairs and fiber optics.• Designed and implemented local area networks for all DWR field division campuses using a combination of twisted-pair hubs and multi-mode fiber optics.• Designed and implemented DWR’s first general purpose wide area network interconnecting all field divisions campus locations and headquarters.