GMIS Member Receives 2011 Ohio Public Finance Award

Originally posted on GMIS.org by Debbie Peterson

GMIS member Brian Kelley was recently honored with the 2011 Ohio GFOA Innovation in Public Finance Award at the Ohio GFOA annual conference in Cleveland ,OH, in September. The Ohio GFOA Innovation in Public Finance Award recognizes an individual for implementing a unique, timesaving or cost-effective procedure or program in the public sector that has potential application for other entities.

Portage County Auditor in nominating Brian for the award stated,

"Since 1991, Brian has consistently failed to recognize these traditional political silos as barriers to implementing information technology in government. He has successfully built long-term business relationships with ALL elected officials, department managers, and end-users in our County. He also reaches out externally to other governmental entities to build and leverage mutually beneficial relationships for shared services and data.

His accomplishments have resulted in immeasurable benefits to our County operations and in improved service delivery to our constituents. Through his accomplishments, Brian's innovative enterprise solutions consistently lead to improved efficiencies and significant cost savings.”

For the original article, visit GMIS.org.

Sponsor and Exhibit Opportunities are Now Available for GMIS 2012 Conference

For those of you interested in being a sponsor or vendor for the GMIS 2012 Conference in Chicago, Illinois this upcoming August, applications are now available.

For information regarding GMIS' Vendor Sponsor Program, click here.
For more information on the conference, visit GMIS.org.

CDR-Data Corporation to Continue Handling Call Accounting for Yolo County

Yolo County, one of the major agricultural regions in the country, has been a partner with CDR-Data Corporation for over 15 years. Their partnership has helped manage the telecommunications and Call Accounting of Yolo’s various departments.

With more than 200,000 residents to serve and nearly two dozen different departments, Yolo County’s daily phone calls often accumulate rapidly. With CDR-Data’s assistance, Yolo County can simplify the phone records and billing for these calls allowing them to focus on serving the growing Yolo community.  

As one of the oldest counties in the state of California, Yolo County has gained the experience necessary to effectively manage their municipal duties and has entrusted CDR-Data to help them keep their Call Accounting accurate while maintaining their budgets.

About CDR-Data Corporation

CDR-Data Corporation, based in Pasadena CA, <http://www.cdrdata.com/> consists of a group of professionals with decades of experience in the telemanagement, call accounting and IT industry. By using an ASP environment, this team has consistently delivered proven products and services that provide answers to management's questions of telecommunications usage and billing. CDR-Data has gained its market share by consistently delivering high quality and flexible solutions to each and every CDR-Data client.

About Yolo County

Yolo County, http://www.yolocounty.org/, was one of the original counties created when California became a state in 1850. Yolo County consists of 653,549 acres and is located in the rich agricultural regions of California’s Central Valley and the Sacramento River Delta. The first recorded contact with Westerners occurred in the late 1830s, which included Spanish missionaries as well as trappers and hunters who could be found along the banks of Cache Creek. The first settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government in 1842 and began planting wheat and other crops. Today, Yolo County is one of the major agricultural leaders in the country.  

For More information:

CDR-Data Corporation                               Michelle Chin            626-791-7900

Yolo County                                                  Tom Bates                  530-406-5012

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The 10^th Annual MISAC Conference in Monterey, CA was both educational and relaxing. As CDR-Data consistently learns more about the public vector, we increasingly appreciate the efforts of our municipal partners. We’d like to thank everyone that was a part of the conference and we’re looking forward to see you all again in San Diego at next year’s conference.

New white paper : Government Community Cloud

Originally posted on http://cloudbestpractices.net/ by Neil McEvoy ⋅ August 31, 2011

Following recent posts about the Canadian Federal Government’s recent Shared Services initiative (this one and this one) we’re going to be publishing a full white paper on the topic, called ‘Government Community Cloud’.
This will explain the central role that Cloud Computing, specifically the NIST model called a Community Cloud, can play in achieving the goals set out by this program.
Quite simply it’s an ideal tool for doing so because fundamentally it’s a method of achieving shared services, it’s literally a technology model for many organizations to consolidate and share IT infrastructure.

Here is a first draft work-in-progress: Government Community Cloud (7-page PDF) that begins to explain the roles our various Cloud vendor partners will plan in this scenario, such as Cohesive and how they would be critical to Cloud security through implementing the Kantara best practices.
As this progresses we’ll be adding other partners input, in particular in key areas of open standards for interoperability and best practices for information security:

• Cloud Security Alliance best practices: Isolating VMs in a multi-tenant environment, and utilizing encryption to secure data in transit and at rest
• Open Data: How migrating to Cloud services can improve agencies use of Open Data
• Open Cloud Ecosystem: Utilizing open standards for Intercloud Portability – Switching workloads between multiple Cloud providers, like CDMI, OCCI and OVF

For the original article posted on cloudbestpractices.net visit, http://cloudbestpractices.net/2011/08/31/new-white-paper-government-community-cloud/

Thanks for Joining Us!

Thanks for making last Thursday's LMN LA event at The Gamble House a success!

We had a great time at last Thursday's social and want to thank everyone that was involved.

Congratulations to David McKinney for winning both a Starbucks gift card and the CORT prize bag with a Cheesecake Factory gift card. Congrats to Chris Davis for taking home a Macy's gift card and to Jenny Ahn and Rebecca Hodgers who both took home Starbucks gift cards.

Pictures from the event can be viewed on CDR-Data's Facebook page.

Once again, we'd like to thank all of our sponsors for helping us put on this event.

Thanks to CORT Furniture, DaVinci Virtual Office Solutions and CDR-Data for helping with the expenses and providing the great prizes. 

 

 

Thanks again and we look forward to seeing everyone again in the fall!

Public Sector IT Leaders Become Certified Government CIOs

 
Originally posted on gmis.org by Debbie Peterson

Twelve GMIS International members graduate from UNC program.

Santa Fe, New Mexico – June 16, 2011 – GMIS International is pleased to announce the graduation of 12 members from the Certified Government Chief Information Officer (CGCIO™) Program at the School of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Paul G. Boutot, Director of Information Technology, Town of Newington, CT
Clifford J. Branch, Chief Information Officer, City of Suffolk, VA
Naveen Kumar Macherla, Network Coordinator, City of Middletown, CT
John A. Matelski, CIO, Gwinnett County, GA
Donna McClellan, Director of Information Technology, Town of Westwood, MA
Jeffrey Charles Motz, GIS Manager, City of Tuscaloosa, AL
Greg Putnam, IT Director, Monmouth County, NJ
Scott E. Roberts, Director of Information Technology, Town of South Windsor, CT
Kevin Charles Stokes, Chief Information Officer, Town of Brookline, MA
Douglas D. Townsend, Director Technology Services, City of Medford, OR
John Zawadzki, Assistant Director IT, Monmouth County NJ
Mark Hald, IT Director, Acton, MA
The 12 month, comprehensive educational program, with both face-to-face and online instructional components, is designed to enhance knowledge in critical areas of public sector IT leadership and management. More information about the CGCIO™ program can be found at: http://www.sog.unc.edu/courses/0813/.
Newly elected GMIS International President Rick Bareuther remarked, "The CGCIO™ Program is an excellent program which provides exceptional value for GMIS members. With the graduation of this class, the fourth class sponsored by GMIS International, the ranks of Certified Government CIOs continue to expand. The CGCIO™ Program continues to raise the bar and set the gold standard for development of outstanding leaders in the public sector. The caliber of Information Technology training is second to none and graduates from this program will lead their public sector organizations with honor and distinction!”
With over 400 member organizations across the U.S. and international sister organizations in six countries, GMIS International is the largest professional organization for public sector IT leaders in the U.S. To learn more about GMIS, visit http://www.gmis.org/. For additional information, please contact GMIS International Headquarters at (877) 963-4647 or via email at: headquarters@gmis.org.