<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/final/magazine/spring-2023/streamlining-countys-it-services.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Streamlining the County’s IT Services</title><excerpt>Chris Chirgwin ’95 brought more than two decades of executive IT leadership and consulting experience to Santa Barbara County as its first chief information officer in 12 years. During his first six months, he’s mapping a new strategic plan to make IT its own department. “The existing IT team has been keeping the day-to-day operations going,” he says. “I want to focus on an inno­vative plan for technology in the county.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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