Overview

November 3

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With 681,000 residential customers in 725 square miles, DC Water holds a big responsibility to provide water and wastewater services to its community. They were looking for a full platform based upon best practices to better manage the sourcing, procurement and other back-office functions so they could focus more time on driving innovation and meeting resident needs.

Similarly, the City of Lincoln/Lancaster County needed to bring efficiencies to its Human Resources processes so it could focus more of its time on the needs of the more than 3,000 employees, represented by 6 different unions, that it serves.

On Nov. 3 at 11am PT/2pm ET, DC Water and City of Lincoln/Lancaster County are joining Government Technology to discuss how a move to the cloud provided their agencies with a platform for continuous innovation and growth. Register for this hour-long webcast to hear more about:

  • What drove these organizations to the cloud and what they looked for in a cloud solution
  • Some of the hurdles they faced and the lessons learned
  • How the cloud has helped these organizations transform internal and external processes
  • How they have been able to drive innovation and adapt post go-live

Tune in to hear how cloud can provide a platform that offers the security, flexibility and scalability needed to take your agency into the future.

Speakers

 

Bill Rials — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

William (Bill) Rials, Ph.D., is a professor and associate director (department chair) of the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement IT and Cybersecurity Program. He focuses on continually delivering and updating the program curriculum based on innovative and emerging technologies. Before transitioning to academia and higher education, he had a diverse gov tech career delivering value to state agencies, local governments, and law enforcement agencies throughout the state of Mississippi.

 

Doug J. McDaniel, MBA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP

Human Resources Director, City of Lincoln, Nebraska

Currently serving as the Director of Human Resources for the City of Lincoln and Lancaster County in Lincoln, Nebraska. Doug has over 38 year’s experience in public and private sector Human Resources Administration. He has extensive experience in executive recruitment, compensation and benefits, employee and labor relations, as well as labor negotiations. He has been involved in the installation of 3 payroll and time keeping systems and has served as an executive sponsor for 2 such installs.

 

Dan Bae

Vice President of Procurement and Compliance, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority

 

Jacquelyn Flickinger, CPA

Director, Strategy & Business Development, State & Local Government, Oracle

Jacquelyn Flickinger, CPA is the Director of ERP/EPM Strategy for Oracle’s State and Local Strategy and Business Development Group. She has spent the last 11 years in public sector and joined Oracle in 2020 from the City of Roseville, CA, where in addition to her role as Controller, she served as a key member and finance lead for Roseville’s ERP implementation of Oracle Cloud. She is also licensed CPA and began her career auditing governments, ranging in size from small Special Districts to States. She brings both public sector industry expertise and direct customer experience which offers unique insight into public sector challenges and a different approach to determining creative solutions leveraging technology.

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