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Dale Jablonsky, an award-winning former head of IT in the state government who then moved into the private sector, took an executive role at Visionary Integration Professionals (VIP), a Folsom-based solutions provider.
Jablonsky recently was at KPMG for nearly eight years, serving first as Public Sector West advisory director and then as CIO advisory director. Prior to joining KPMG, Jablonsky was vice president and executive IT strategist for Performance Technology Partners.
In his new role at VIP, Jablonsky will be chief strategy officer for Sacramento -based VIP.
“Mostly, it’s going to be business development,” Jablonsky said Techwire. “Certainly, the way the game is changing today, government clients need more platform-based solutions, and more solutions that are based on commercial software and not custom-developed. So many SI (s). system integrator) is really trying to figure out how to fulfill the new business model, where you deliver Salesforce, ServiceNow-a more mature software solution that doesn’t involve any custom development, so it’s a one-size-fits-all -all models. “
Jablonsky said he knows how government works and what it needs, based on his years in state government, including serving as deputy director for IT for the California Employment Development Department (EDD) and as assistant executive. officer for the IT Services branch of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS). While in the state, Jablonsky was a frequent speaker and participant in industry conferences and forums, and he was recognized in the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers’s Government Technology magazine* in 2012.
Jablonsky said his experience in government helps him communicate with his clients in departments and agencies.
“There are a lot of issues associated with that,” he says, “because the government loves their custom code, and it never deals with anything one-size-fits-all, so there’s a tremendous amount of business process re- engineering.Many SIs don’t fully understand that, and certainly government clients don’t fully understand that.They wonder why their… project doesn’t work as advertised, because they didn’t do everything of the necessary business process re-engineering to conform to the realities of this overall software solution.
“My job is to communicate Venutian and Martian, on both sides of the equation, because vendors don’t always speak the same language that government clients understand. I can speak two languages and it really helps to bridge that typical gap as we begin this period of solution development. ”
Jablonsky said he has always been driven toward changing business practices through technology.
“I was very aggressive with change, even when I was in the state, whether in EDD or CalPERS,” he said. “The truth is they rely on 30 -year -old technology, and that’s not the way they should run their business. So I have to spend a lot of time so they understand that there’s a better way, and that’s not easy.” I am very happy. ”
*Government Technology magazine is a publication of e.Republic, which also produces Techwire.
