Chief Information Office

OCIO VALUES

Leadership

We embrace an enterprise and disciplined approach to demonstrate value and expertise, draw on the strengths of others, and to provide strategic direction.

Integrity

We emphasize action and results that are credible, transparent, and objective.

Vision

We establish a forward-thinking, strategic, and open mindset to accelerate change, demonstrate value, and reach creative solutions.

Innovation

We value bold ideas, embrace change, accept calculated risks, and challenge the status quo.

Excellence

We strive to achieve a culture of customer-focus, diverse expertise, and continual learning.

STRATEGIC GOALS

MOBILITY

Accelerate mobility for employees and residents to deliver services anywhere at any time.

TRANSFORM PROCUREMENT

Revamp procurement processes for more speed and flexibility to accelerate improved delivery to residents.

DATA AS UTILITY

Enable the use and accessibility of data to build a Countywide culture that emphasizes data-driven decision making.

DIGITAL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

Engage our residents and communities with a variety of digital methods to interact with their government.

WORKFORCE EMPOWERMENT

Build a modern workforce that embraces evolving technologies that transform service delivery.

SERVICES

Analytics Center of Excellence

The Analytics Center of Excellence supports two strategic missions: improving the delivery of County services through data integration and sharing, as well as supporting data-driven decision-making and increased information maturity through analysis, research, and platforms.

IT Governance

The Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) has re-designed County’s IT Governance framework to achieve better technology business alignments to support 37 departments.

Strategic Partnerships

To ignite a new way of aligning technology with business strategy and vision across Los Angeles County, the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) launched a User-Centered Strategic Planning and Delivery Program in 2018 across its five clusters that represent 37 departments.

Information Security

The Information Security Committee (ISC), chaired by the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), is comprised of the County’s Departmental Information Security Officers (DISOs). The ISC serves as the governing body for all County information security related activities.

Strategic IT Consulting

Organized strategic workshops focused on innovating around the business problem.

MEET OUR LEADERSHIP

William (Bill) Kehoe

Bill Kehoe has been a public-sector Chief Information Officer (CIO) since 2002 serving as a State Agency CIO at the State of Washington Department of Licensing from 2002 – 2010; at King County Washington from 2010 – 2017; and as Los Angeles County CIO from November 2017 – Present. Bill has provided strategic and operational leadership for key organizational and technology transformations as a CIO including: three mainframe migrations, two IT organization and technology consolidations, multiple data center consolidations, development of multiple online services for state and local government residents, hybrid cloud strategy and deployment, application rationalization and modernization, IT Governance, Innovation, IT Strategic Planning, Enterprise Architecture, Information Management, and Unified Communication services.

As the CIO for Los Angeles County, Bill and his staff have responsibility for enterprise technology strategy, governance, and policy. Bill and his staff are also responsible for the enterprise information management, information security, and department consulting programs.

Bill is involved in several professional organizations and is the current President of Metropolitan Information Exchange (MIX), a national local government CIO consortium. Bill was recognized by Government Technology as one of the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers in 2015. King County was recognized as the top large county in the 2017 Digital Counties Survey.

Peter Loo

Peter Loo is the Chief Deputy CIO of Los Angeles County. With over 30 years of public sector IT experience, he serves as the principal adviser to the CIO and provides strategy, leadership and guidance on enterprise IT initiatives, IT Governance and the delivery of information technology capabilities to support the County mission. Currently, Mr. Loo is responsible for the County’s Information Management and Information Security Committees at the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO).

Prior to joining the Los Angeles County, Mr. Loo was Director of Consulting Services at a large multi-national firm, where he was responsible for the successful delivery of multiple public-sector ERP and public health projects at State and local governments.