Director of Innovation and Technology
City of Pharr, Texas
Mr. Peña is the current IT Director for the City of Pharr. With 19 years of service in the public sector, Mr. Peña has a proven track record of driving efficiency in municipal operations, from behind-the-scenes application development of ground-breaking services to the month-to-month activities of department operations and city commission meetings. Identifying ways to leverage technology and development to increase operational effectiveness across all departments, Mr. Peña’s hallmark continues to be his forward-looking approach to information technology, while working within strict budgets to complete objectives of implemented plans while blazing the path for innovative approaches to municipal operations. A few of the other city wide projects his department has been involved in is the implementation of a new custom built toll collection system for the international bridge along with their city wide video surveillance upgrade, PD body cam and in vehicle video recording system upgrades, implementation of New World System for public safety(PD, FD, EMS), Pharr 311 mobile application for citizens, implementation of a regional telecommunication center and a state of the art data center utilizing redundant fiber paths, power, cooling, firewalls and hyper-converged servers.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022
12:30pm – 1:20pm