Richard Rogers has been appointed chief of the Office of Technology Services in the California Department of Technology, where he had served as deputy director of engineering since 2015.
Before joining the Office of Technology Services, Rogers worked in the California Employment Development Department from 1986 to 2015. He held many positions, including chief of the infrastructure and applications division, business applications services supervisor and member of the enterprise architecture team. In his position as chief of the infrastructure and applications division, Rogers started a massive change in 2008. This change was in response to budget constraints and a need to serve a record number of unemployment and disability applicants. It was one of the state’s largest computer and network infrastructures.
More recently in 2013, he oversaw the deployment of an enterprisewide identity management system that supports concurrent access by 45,000 customers.
Rogers is an alumnus of California State University, Sacramento. His appointment was made this week.
In another recent change, Brenda Bridges Cruz has been appointed as deputy chief information officer of Covered California.
Bridges Cruz has been a civil servant since 1998. Before joining Covered California, she worked at CalPERS as chief of the Analysis, Quality and User Experience Section, chief of Application Development and Support Services, and chief of Enterprise Quality Assurance.
She also spent almost four years as an ACES test manager in the Employment Development Department.
Bridges Cruz, whose appointment was made last month, received her bachelor's degree from Valdosta State University in Georgia. She also studied law at University of the Pacific–McGeorge School of Law and public policy and administration at CSUS.
