Jaime Garza Appointed To Board of Equalization, To Handle External Affairs

A closed session of the California State Board of Equalization, at its Sacramento meeting this week appointed Mr. Jaime Garza to the position of Deputy Director of the BOE’s External Affairs Department.

As External Affairs Deputy Director, Mr Garza will coordinate contacts between the BOE and members of the public, media, and other interested parties.

Mr. Garza has been a well known and respected broadcast journalist for 26 years, mostly in California. He was in Los Angeles for 13 years and Sacramento for almost six. In his successful career as an anchor and reporter, he received many awards, including eight Emmys.

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Jaime Garza

– Jerome Horton, Chairman, BOE

Until September 2010, he anchored the KTXL-40 5:30 and 10 pm newscasts in Sacramento.

Most recently, Mr. Garza served as a Public Information Officer for the California Department of Motor Vehicles, where he worked to develop innovative education and outreach plans aimed at promoting new and enhanced services and programs.

Garza graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, with a Bachelor of Journalism in Broadcast Journalism and a Bachelor of Science in Radio-Television-Film.

He grew up in a tri-lingual and tri-cultural family, in which English, Spanish and German were all spoken in the household.

Alan Gray is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of NewsBlaze Daily News and other online newspapers. He prefers to edit, rather than write, but sometimes an issue rears it’s head and makes him start hammering away on the keyboard.

Content Expertise

Alan has been on the internet since it first started. He loves to use his expertise in content and digital marketing to help businesses grow, through managed content services. After living in the United States for 15 years, he is now in South Australia. To learn more about how Alan can help you with content marketing and managed content services, contact him by email.

Technical Expertise

Alan is also a techie. His father was a British soldier in the 4th Indian Division in WWII, with Sikhs and Gurkhas. He was a sergeant in signals and after that, he was a printer who typeset magazines and books on his linotype machine. Those skills were passed on to Alan and his brothers, who all worked for Telecom Australia, on more advanced signals (communications). After studying electronics, communications, and computing at college, and building and repairing all kinds of electronics, Alan switched to programming and team building and management.

He has a fascination with shooting video footage and video editing, so watch out if he points his Canon 7d in your direction.