Policy Board

NWRDC is governed by a Policy Board consisting of its major customers. Policy Board Membership is determined based on the percentage of revenue paid to the Center and reviewed annually.

Meeting Schedule: The Policy Board meets on a quarterly basis, with its annual meeting typically held at the end of May. All meetings are announced on the NWRDC Calendar. If you would like to attend a meeting of the Policy Board, please contact Kate Wasson.

Pictured (l to r): Levis Hughes, Damu Kuttikrishnan, Michael Barrett, Gene Kovacs, Mehran Basiratmand, Ted Duncan, Betsy Hacker - Proxy for Mike Dieckmann, Henry Martin, Tim Brown and David Cantrell.

Policy Board Members

Dr. Mehran Basiratmand, Chair
Small User Representative
mehran@fau.edu
Chief Technology Officer
Information Resource Management
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
CM212
Boca Raton, FL 33431
561/297-0230

Michael Barrett, Vice Chair
Management Committee Chair
mgbarrett@fsu.edu
Associate Vice President, Chief Information Officer
The Florida State University
Room C6102 UCC
292 Champions Way
P.O. Box 3062620
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2620
850/645-1768

Ronald Henry

Non-voting Member

ronald.henry@famu.edu

Interim Associate Vice President/CIO Information Technology Services

Florida A&M University

Information Technology Services

1740 S Martin Luther King Blvd.

Tallahassee, FL 32307

850/599-3560

Michael Dieckmann

michaeldieckmann@uwf.edu
Chief IT Strategist, Innovation Institute
University of West Florida
321 N. DeVilliers Street
Pensacola, FL 32501
850/474-2558

Ted Duncan
ted.duncan@fldoe.org
Chief Technology Officer
Office of Technology & Information Services
Florida Department of Education
325 West Gaines Street, Suite 1444
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0400
850/245-9828

Levis Hughes

Management Committee Member

Levis.Hughes@fldoe.org

Bureau Chief

Office of Student Financial Assistance

Florida Department of Education

325 W. Gaines Street, Suite 1314

Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400

850/410-6810

Gene Kovacs
gene.kovacs@fldoe.org
Assistant Vice Chancellor
State University System of Florida Board of Governors
Information Resource Management
325 West Gaines Street
Suite 1625
Tallahassee, FL 32399
850/245-0837

Damu Kuttikrishnan

KuttikrD@dor.state.fl.us

CIO, Florida Department of Revenue

5050 W Tennessee St, Rm 2-2210

Tallahassee, FL 32399

850/717-7593

Henry Martin

K-12 Representative

Management Committee Member

martinh@walton.k12.fl.us

Technology Information Officer

Walton County School District

7145 S Park St, Ste #5

DeFuniak Springs, FL 32435

850/892-1100 x1511

NWRDC Maintenance and Meetings Calendar

Monday, June 26th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, June 26th
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Wednesday, June 28th

Annual Mainframe Disaster Recovery Exercise
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: Northwest Regional Data Center - FSU, 2048 E Paul Dirac Dr, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA
- Start date: Wednesday, June 28th
- Start time: 08:00am
- End time: 08:00am
- Mainframe Customers,
  
  Please let NWRDC know if you are planning to participate in the Mainframe Disaster Recovery exercise via email addressed to Mainframe-DR-Support@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
  
  • Dates – Customer testing begins on Wednesday June 28, 2017 at 8:00 am and will run until 8:00 am on Thursday, June 29, 2017.
  
  • Connection requirements - All terminal communication with the DR site will be required to be encrypted. That means if you are going to participate in the DR exercise your TN3270 sessions must be directed to dr.nwrdc.fsu.edu using port 992. Port 23 will NOT be active. Again, this pertains to all terminal interactions with the DR site only.
  
  o The TN3270 SSL activation steps are as follows:
  
   Obtain TN3270 software that supports SSL/TLS security
   Enable the SSL/TLS feature for the client session.
   Enter 992 as connection port
  
  o You may test your SSL capability any time using either nwrdc.fsu.edu or nwalt.fsu.edu and specify port 992.
  
  • The DR host is dr.nwrdc.fsu.edu. If you need to punch any holes through your firewalls for this, the IP address is will be provided several weeks before the exercise.
  
  • There will be no DR equivalent of nwalt.fsu.edu
  
  • All tape data will be available at the D/R facility, including HSM. This is a result of our migrating to the Luminex/Data Domain virtual tape library/storage.
  
  • We plan to restore DASD volumes from snapshots created at 2:30 AM Monday morning, 6/26/2017.
  
  • Control/M - If you want your Control/M activated, please let us know via email. Control/M by default is not started unless specifically requested.
  
  • Printers- If your testing includes printing output please provide NWRDC with a list of the printer(s) you would like to have activated via email.
  
  If you have any questions or concerns, please call Customer Support at 850-645-3500.
  
  Danny Burnett
  IT Support
  NWRDC
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, July 3rd

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, July 3rd
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Friday, July 7th

NWRDC Atlanta Firewall OS Update
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Friday, July 7th
- Start time: 06:00am
- End time: 07:00am
- Service(s): NWRDC Atlanta Firewall OS Update
  Maintenance Start Time: Friday, July 7th 0600 (EST)
  Maintenance End Time: Friday, July 7th 0700 (EST)
  
  Service Availability: No downtime nor performance impact is expected
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing an OS upgrade on the redundant Firewall pair in Atlanta. Due to the nature of this upgrade and the configuration of the firewall, we do not expect any noticeable impact.
  
  Questions?
  We're here to help. If you experience issues after the maintenance has concluded or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Operations Team at (850) 645-3500, it_support@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, July 10th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, July 10th
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, July 17th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, July 17th
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, July 24th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, July 24th
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, July 31st

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, July 31st
- Start time: 02:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

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