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Sacramento, Ca, Us

Sacramento, California, United States

The OTSI Project Management Division has a multi-million-dollar project portfolio. Responsibilities include project portfolio management, day-to-day executive leadership over five statewide IT projects (CalEVV, CMIPS, EMSA ePOLST, EMSA CEDRS, and EMSA Central Registry), stakeholder management, policy planning and development, legislative budget hearings, governance and decision making, and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of organizational IT project management. In addition, work across the CalHHS agency with peers and counterparts to establish, implement, and pilot shared service models and practices that help departments implement projects successfully. Work with fellow OTSI executive management team members and the directorate to plan, develop, and implement policies and standards that align with state and federal guidelines and agency goals and objectives. Served as the Acting Deputy Director between October 2023 and January 2024 before being named Deputy Director officially on January 31, 2024.

Sacramento, California, United States

The Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Phase II Project is a $46 million statewide COTS SaaS solution implementation serving personal care services and home health care services and is a multi-state department initiative with sponsors from the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), Department of Developmental Services (DDS), Department of Aging (CDA), Department of Public Health (CDPH), and Department of Social Services (CDSS). Responsibilities include planning, implementation, and operations of a statewide IT COTS SaaS solution; governance and decision management; developing, maintaining, and managing relationships with state sponsors and teams, control agencies (CDT, DOF), federal partners (CMS), and various other stakeholder groups; stakeholder management of a project impacting 150 jurisdictional entities, over 7,000 provider agencies, and almost 200,000 recipients; managing state staff and contractors; day-to-day operational leadership, planning, guidance and strategic direction; schedules, budgeting, and finances, and managing the state budget/fiscal process; state signature authority for the CalEVV project's procurements, contracts, invoices, project deliverables, state and federal project documents, and services; development and execution of solicitations and procurement documents; contract evaluations and negotiations; overall contract compliance, service level agreements, and corrective action plans; and state and federal policy compliance.

Sacramento, California Area

The eWIC MIS Project is a $113 million statewide IT implementation, which requires the State to implement a new management information system (MIS) and integrate with California’s existing Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system by October 1, 2020. This is a large-scale, complex statewide IT implementation with more than 3,300 end users and 1.2 million stakeholders. It involves all phases of the project lifecycle (i.e. initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing) and SDLC (i.e. analyze, design, build, test, train, implement, and maintain).RESPONSIBILITIES:• Responsible for procurements and contracts activities related to the MIS System Integrator, organizational change management (OCM) services, support services, interagency agreements, and other IT and non-IT goods and services. • Responsible for project management plans, including the master project management plan, scope management plan, schedule management plan, risk/issue management plan, communication management plan, stakeholder management plan, quality management plan, HR/staff management plan, and contract management plan. • Served as a project manager to multi-functional teams in a matrix reporting structures, leading projects ranging in size, scope, schedule and cost, and oftentimes running simultaneously, with impacts to highly complex systems, applications, and business processes. • Served as the communications manager responsible for ensuring team members, customers, and stakeholders are provided with consistent and reliable information and sharing opportunities. • Managed and/or participated in contractor performance, deliverable acceptance, invoice payments, RFP evaluations, and contract negotiations.• Led development of State project and funding approval documents (e.g. SPR, BCPs, Section 11.0) and Federal approval documents (e.g. IAPDs, APDs).• Served as a SharePoint administrator for the Project.

Sacramento, California Area

Revolution Wines in located in Midtown Sacramento and is the city’s only fully operational urban winery, featuring old world winemaking, wine tasting, and food pairings. As a family owned and operated business since 2007, Revolution Wines is devoted to the notion that the expression of place - Terroir - is an important pursuit and locally produce wine and food is the best expression of Sacramento Terroir.My part-time work with Revolution was in the tasting room and managing/coordinating various wine events. I started with Revolution as a volunteer many years ago to satisfy my interest in viticulture and the production of wine. RESPONSIBILITIES:• Serve in the tasting room as customer service• Support wine production during Harvast season, e.g. grape pressing, juicing, fermentation, etc.• Host a monthly wine Trivia night• Assist the wine makers with a monthly education program, called Cellar School • Plan, coordinate, and serve at wine events

Sacramento, California Area

FI$Cal is a $909 million statewide business transformation project, combining accounting, budgeting, cash management, and procurement operations into a single financial management system and impacting more than 160 state entities and 15,000 end users. This is a large-scale, complex statewide IT implementation, which involves all phases of the project lifecycle (i.e. initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing) and SDLC (i.e. analyze, design, build, test, train, implement, and maintain).RESPONSIBILITIES:• Served as the Change Management Onboarding Manager, Executive Support Manager for the Project Director, and the Executive Analyst for the Executive Office. • Worked directly with the executive level leadership, senior management, control agencies, the system integrator, sub-contractors, and other key stakeholders.• Managed the Readiness Team and readiness coordinators, responsible for working with and ensuring the successful onboarding of end users across 160+ departments. • Served as the project manager for the California budget system implementation, which was the largest implementation of Oracle’s Hyperion Public Sector Planning and Budgeting (PSPB) application worldwide at the time. • Led organizational change management workshop activities, trainings, and presentations.• Served as Level 2 service center support on incident, problem, configuration, change, and release management processes.• Served as the 2016 (R16 Release), 2014 (wave 1) and 2015 (wave 2) transition manager (also referred to as cutover lead) for the statewide implementation of California State’s accounting and procurement system. • Served as the 2014 system stabilization lead for the post Wave 1 system release.• Served as a PeopleSoft tester for smoke and functional testing phases.• Served as the SharePoint test lead, developing the test strategy, plan, scripts and scenarios.

Folsom, Ca

e.Republic is a media and research company mainly focused on information technology in state and local government and education nationally. The company has publications (e.g. Government Technology, Public CIO, Governing, Techwire), more than 150 annual events, and a research division (Center for Digital Government and Center for Digital Education). The research division managed and executed projects ranging from $10,000 to over $2 million. Most projects were small in size with varying levels of complexity. RESPONSIBILITIES:• Worked for the Center for Digital Government and Center for Education as a Research Associate, the Research Liaison, the Lead Researcher, and Lead Education Research and Strategy Analyst. • Served as a project manager for the research division.• Worked directly with executive level leadership and senior management in state and local government, K12 and higher education institutions, and private sector firms, across the nation.• Helped create, and served as lead for, the national Digital States Performance Institute, a year-round program aimed at sharing and improving technology best practices in state government. • Coordinated and helped organize events for the Digital State’s Performance Institute and other company programs/events.• Author/ writer of various reports and publications, white papers, strategy papers, and blog entries• Client consulting, customer service, and account management• Public speaking engagements – internally and externally, both online and in-person• Department System Administrator for survey management tool (i.e. Qualtrics), email marketing & campaign tool (i.e. Eloqua), CRM/ content management systems (i.e. Salesforce)• Served the research needs of various business units, e.g. events team, magazines, and subscription-based online research tool.

Sacramento, California Area

The California Center is a non-profit civic education organization, which works with youth by exposuring them to the democratic process through active, hands-on programs.RESPONSIBILITIES:• Served as a program and project management assistant• Program development• Event planning, coordination, and execution• Outreach and fundraising• Youth guidance counselor

Barcelona Area, Spain

Rosenthal Research is a globally operating data collection market research company. While working at Rosenthal, my area of focus was information technology research in the governmental verticle for both the US and Saudi Arabian markets. Roles and Responsibilities:• Qualitative and quantitative data gathering and analysis• Internet research and outreach

Ba, English And German

Computer And Information Sciences, General

Continuing Education: web design, network adminstration, operating systems, database management, algorith design, etc.

Applied Linguistics

German Language And Literature

Study Abroad