- Organizational Staffing: Hired an Enterprise Cloud Program Manager to begin in October. Welcome, Chris Lamb! Also developed a position description to contract a Project Manager/Scrum Master for the Foundations workstream.
- Foundational Services: Worked on one-pager explaining Foundations strategic goal to be published to the web.
- Workforce and Training: Enterprise Cloud Steering Committee approved cloud training personas. Also continued meeting with vendors and partners at DES to learn about how vendor systems would work with the state’s learning management system and completed contracting process to bring vendor onboard for workforce readiness project and selected 18 agencies to participate.
- Consulting, Brokerage, and Marketplace: Met with contacts at LA County to learn about their experience developing a cloud marketplace. Also developed business requirements for assessing cloud financial reporting tools. This includes items such as ability to analyze data from multiple cloud service providers, budget alerts, forecasting, and ability to develop views for specific stakeholders.
- Enterprise Data Platform: Cloud team members have joined the Enterprise Data Platform project to help develop a cloud-based enterprise data platform. The project will work with Results Washington to pilot a data platform to create and publish data visualizations.
NOTICE: As of June 6, 2024, WaTech has formally adopted its name change, eliminating CTS and OCIO.
In 2024, the Legislature passed SHB 1947, which eliminated the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) and incorporated all duties and responsibilities to Washington Technology Solutions (WaTech), as well as renamed the agency from Consolidated Technology Services (CTS) to WaTech. Previous references to the OCIO or CTS should be understood to refer to WaTech.