OC CIO Minutes October 9, 2014

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

October 9, 2014 meeting

Present:        Subbu Murthy, Jeff Hecht, Jim Sutter

Topic:          IT enabled Construction Management

Subbu led the conversation and described his work as consulting CIO at BCCI, a large construction company headquartered in Northern California. He outlined the stages of each project including pre-award, project initiation, project management, and closeout. He then provided his insight into the critical need for intelligent workflow in all construction projects. His charts broke down the role that workflow plays among the various project team members. He pointed out that workflow extends all the way through Field logistics and Implementation and also extends into the work done by subcontractors

Subbu's presentation was very thorough in demonstrating the role that IT plays in ensuring that construction projects are completed on schedule and meet profitability objectives. We had a good discussion about distinguishing generic capabilities (i.e., workflow), from other imbedded capabilities in application suites.

Thank you, Subbu, for a very interesting presentation.

 

OC CIO Minutes August 14, 2014

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Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

August 14, 2014 meeting

Present:        Keith Golden, Sean Brown, Jeff Hecht, Jim Sutter, Jeff Crowell,

                     Dave Phillips

Attendance at the summer months meetings has been a little disappointing, especially when you consider the work each speaker puts into his/her presentation.

Topic:          Future of Intelligent Transportation

Keith listed the milestones in traffic management, from the manual intersection signals in 1868 all the way to today’s widespread use of camera for vehicle detection (see slide 3).  At each major intersection there is independent signal infrastructure, often connected to a traffic management control center, which coordinates traffic movement in both directions.  It is more complicated than one might think.  Keith addressed most of the FAQs for today’s signal systems.  Then he took a look at the future, where vehicles can be assisted, or connected to each other(V2V), or to infrastructure (V2I).  Before long we will see self-driving cars.  There is plenty of motivation – 33,000 people are killed and 2.3M are injured each year on American roads.  Slide 14 lists the vehicle assists now available.  Slide 15 lists the V2V connected features now available.  Slide 16 lists the V2I feature now available. Keith's slides are at: http://www.slideshare.net/occio  .

This was a fascinating presentation – thank you, Keith.

OC CIO Minutes July 10, 2014

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

July 10, 2014 meeting

Present:        Jeff Hecht, David Mann, Sean Brown, Jim Sutter, William Zauner, Keith Golden, Dave Phillips

Topic:          Security in the News

Jeff Hecht selected 3 major security events from the past 12 months on which to focus - the Heartbleed vulnerability

- massive data breaches such as the Target one

- the NSA/Snowden theft.

The Heartbleed bug allows for steeling data usually protected by the OpenSSL/TLS encryption over the Internet.  Not only is data lost but also the encryption keys themselves.  It is estimated that more than 600,000 servers were affected.  You can test your servers to see if your company is affected (see slide 9).

The Target theft resulted in more than 40 M credit/debit numbers being stolen, with massive side affects (see slide 10). Not only was Target affected but many, many other big stores – an estimated 1 in 4 Americans have been affected.  Chip and pin technologies (smart cards) can have a positive affect, but costly to implement.

The Snowden action revealed that mass surveillance programs are conducted by the NSA, affecting both US citizens and foreign nationals.  It has raised many concerns, including the threat of insider theft.  Side 19 lists a number of actions that might form part of your defense in depth. Jeff's slides are at:  http://www.slideshare.net/occio .

Jeff lead a very interesting discussion and he lists many interesting links to much more information in his appendices.

Jeff – this was a great presentation, as usual.

 

OC CIO Minutes June 12, 2014

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

June 12, 2014 meeting

Present:        David Mann, Sean Brown, Jim Sutter, Jeff Hecht, Jeff Crowell,

Dave Phillips

Topic:          Mobile Security

David Mann is the new CIO at ATMECS and he shared with us a brief description of the company (see slides 3-6).  ATMECS is a technology solutions partner whose focus includes applications development, systems integration, and database solutions. The name ATMECS stands for Aspire, Think, Manage, Engage, Create, Succeed.

Mobile security is no longer one point of control – it involves people (users, employees, contractors, customers, partners), data (structured and unstructured), and all kinds of devices.  David shared with us various statistics on mobile search and its threats and challenges. The biggest increase in loss of and theft of mobile devices is in SF!  When thinking about mobile security strategy, you have to consider mobile device management and security, application management, data protection, virtual desk infrastructure, risk management, always on VPN and trusted execution environment.  He had a slide for each of these issues, and ended with a Gartner Magic Quadrant for 2012 and 2013, showing the top 3 vendors for each.  I recommend you read the slides for more information. They're at:  http://www.slideshare.net/occio 

Great presentation - thank you, David

 

OC CIO Minutes April 10, 2014

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

April 10, 2014 meeting

Present:        Sean Brown, Byron Cheng, Krishna Marella, Jeff Reid, Keith Golden, Joel Manfredo, Jeff Crowell, Dave Phillips

The topics and speakers for meetings through August 2014 are listed in Attachment A.

Topic:          Legal Challenges of Cloud Computing

Sean Brown introduced our guest speakers - Byron Cheng from the local Costa Mesa office of Deloitte and Krishna Marella, by phone, from the San Jose office. Their presentation is attached and it contains a good summary of the discussion.  Cloud computing is a major force in IT and it continues to drive a major shift in IT architecture, sourcing and service delivery.  It is maturing but there are still major issues such as security, privacy, governance and risk.  Who owns the data? Where does it reside? Who backs it up? Where? How is it handled after termination? Etc. etc.

This was the essence of our discussion and the slides provide a solid basis for the exchange, with Byron and Krishna trying to get their input into the lively exchange of experience and opinion.

Thank you, Byron and Krishna, for agreeing to participate in an excellent session.

 

OC CIO Minutes February 13, 2014

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

February 13, 2014 meeting

 

Present:        Jeff Crowell, Jim Sutter, Sean Brown, William Zauner, Ashwin Rangan, Joel Manfredo, Jeff Reid, Jeff Hecht, Dave Phillips

The topics and speakers for meetings through August 2014 are listed in Attachment A.

Note the change for March.

 

Topic:          3D Printing

          “3D printing will change the world!”.

Jeff Crowell did a good job of persuading us that this might happen in the not too distant future. 3D printing was first developed in 1984 by Charles Hull and named SLA – stereolithography – an additive manufacturing or printing technology used for producing models, prototypes, patterns and production parts.  There are a wide variety of 3D printers in use today. Slide 5, 6 shows how it works – each scanner/printer can scan, print, copy and fax.  3d printing is experiencing multidimensional growth (Slides 9-13). Gartner says there was 75% growth in 2013 – by 2016 enterprise 3D printers will cost less than $2,000.  There are many advantages to 3D printing – lower cost for a new business by reducing product development time, production costs, energy costs, material costs, inventorying carrying costs, etc.  Major players in this game are Autodesk, Stratasys, 3D Systems DDD, Dassault, Shapeways.  Within 10 years there will be one in every house (?).  There are negatives e.g. 3D printed guns, counterfeiting, drugs on demand, intellectual property losses.  There are endless uses in medicine, paleontology, archaeology, building construction, etc.  The potential is amazing.  Look at Jeff’s slides and appendices. They are at:   http://www.slideshare.net/occio .

 

Jeff also showed us a number of slide shows, which helped our understanding of the current uses and potential. Great presentation.

 

OC CIO Minutes January 9, 2014

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

January 9, 2014 meeting

 

Present:        David Mann, Sean Brown, Jon Hahn, Jim Sutter, Jeff Hecht, Joel Manfredo, Jeff Crowell,, Dave Phillips

The topics and speakers were selected for meetings through August 2014 – see Attachment A.

Topic:          Agile & SCRUM

David introduced the value proposition for Agile & SCRUM - improved sales efficiency, enhanced customer experience and increased staff loyalty. It is process driven, which provides a focus. Having a process is important for many reasons - time to market, productivity, efficiency and quality. People don’t follow complex processes so it has to be simple, customizable and scalable. David described a SCRUM as an Agile process. It’s not about rushing things; it is iterative, full customer involvement, frequent releases and focused on delivery.  It is not chaos.  It is dependable in terms of scope, time, cost and quality (see slides 16-23). It depends on defining milestones, deliverables, and teamwork.  I recommend that you read the attached slides.  Find them at: http://www.slideshare.net/occio .

 

Thanks to David, we had a productive and interactive meeting.

Schedule for the meetings through August 2014:

DATE           INTRODUCTION                                    TOPIC

                   

9/12/13	Jeff Hecht, Word & Brown	BYOD
10/10/13	Keith Golden, Econolite	Evolving role of the CIO
11/14/13	Jeff Crowell, uGovernIT	IT Governance – Demand, Project, Service Mgmt.
12/12/13	Hicham Semaan, Quickstart	Microsoft update
1/9/14	David Mann, Financial Payment Sys	Agile & SCRUM
2/13/14	Jeff Crowell, uGovernIT	3-D Printing
3/13/14	Sean Brown, RJT Compuquest	Legal challenges for Cloud computing
4/10/14	Joel Manfredo	Salesforce update
5/8/14	David Mann, Financial Paymnt Sys.	Mobile security
6/12/14	Jon Hahn	Gartner Group update on BYOD
7/10/14	Jeff Hecht, Word & Brown
8/14/14	Keith Golden, Econolite	Intelligent Transportation