Behzad Zamanian

Chief Information Officer, Washoe County

Behzad Zamanian serves as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the second largest County in Nevada, Washoe County. He directs all facets of technology and is responsible for overall planning, coordinating, and implementing the County's technologies and strategy for 2800 internal customers and 500,000 external constituents on a complex wide area network with over 100 connected facilities.

Past Covid-19 pandemic, Zamanian built a comprehensive three-year Technology Plan to reset County’s technology priorities as Pandemic changed everyone’s priorities and how they operated. The plan identified a series of business objectives aligned with the County’s goals with over 50 major projects.

Previously he served as the Chief Information Officer for the City of Huntington Beach from January 2004 through December 2020. In this role, he oversaw Information Service Department which provides, operates, and maintains computing and telecommunication facilities, equipment, and services. During that time, Zamanian earned the Municipal Information System Association of California (MISAC) Award of Excellence in Information Technology practices numerous times. Prior to joining the City of Huntington Beach, Zamanian served as the Chief Architect and Web Services Manager for the University of California, Irvine for 11 years.

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IT Modernization: The Be-all-and-End-all of the Government Sector

By: Behzad Zamanian, Chief Information Officer at Washoe County

“The public sector faces multiple challenges today. The primary one revolves around aligning IT goals with the organization's strategic objectives and achieving organizational excellence through proper IT Governance”