Staff: Bridgette Castillo, Senior Commission Counsel and George Aradi, Special Investigator. Armando Jaramillo was a public official as a former Systems Integration Analyst for the Imperial County Office of Education (“ICOE”) for purposes of Government Code Section 1090. Jaramillo participated in making six contracts between ICOE and Pixabytes Solutions, Inc., a business owned by Jaramillo, in violation of Government Code Section 1090 (3 counts). Total Proposed Penalty: $15,000.