by | Sep 1, 2020 | Newsletter, Profiles
When the California Military Department (CMD) was slotted into the first wave of departments to enter the FI$Cal system, its leaders wanted to balk. Better to wait a year and see if this new thing really is going to work out well, they reasoned. Now, three years...
by | Feb 4, 2020 | Newsletter
By Subbarao Mupparaju, Deputy Director of Information Technology Division Users have been telling us they want the ability to do more with their data and enhance their reporting capabilities, and we are starting to provide departments with a powerful new tool called...
by | Jan 21, 2020 | Newsletter, Profiles
With Mehdi Ghomeshi’s retirement at the end of January, California’s state government is losing a top-tier manager who succeeded in the simplest of ways – he did well by doing good. Mehdi, deputy director in charge of the Business Operation and Solutions Division...
by | Dec 11, 2019 | Newsletter, Profiles
You might wonder about a FI$Cal worker who got up at 3:30 a.m. to go out and run nine or 10 miles before work three days a week, then hit the trails for up to 20 miles on Saturdays and 30 on Sundays. In the case of Ka Xiong, Budget Officer in FI$Cal’s Administrative...