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.

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

Henry Martin, Vice Chair

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

Jesus Arias

Institutional Affiliate

Non-voting Member

jesus@fiu.edu

Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Manager

Florida International University

Division of Information Technology

112000 SW 8th St.

Miami, FL 33199-PC51338

305/348-4128

Michael Dieckmann

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

Ronald Henry

Non-voting Member

ronald.henry@famu.edu

Associate Vice President, Information Technology

Florida A&M University

Information Technology Services

1740 S Martin Luther King Blvd.

Tallahassee, FL 32307

850/599-3560

Gene Kovacs

Management Committee Member
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

Jane Livingston

jane.livingtson@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

Dr. Andre Smith

Management Committee Member

andre.smith@fldoe.org

Deputy Commissioner

Division of Technology & Innovation

Florida Department of Education

325 W. Gaines Street, Suite B1-14

Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400

850/245-0428

Sandra Stevens

City, County and Local Government Representative

SStevens@ci.boca-raton.fl.us

IT Director

City of Boca Raton Florida

201 West Palmetto Park Road

Boca Raton, FL 33432

561/393-7724

NWRDC Maintenance and Meetings Calendar

Tomorrow

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, March 25th
- 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, March 29th

NWRDC Policy Board Meeting
- Calendar: NWRDC Meetings
- Where: NWRDC - 2048 E Paul Dirac Dr, Tallahassee, FL 32310
- Start date: Friday, March 29th
- Start time: 10:00am
- End time: 03:00pm
- Quarterly meeting of the NWRDC Policy Board. If you are interested in attending this meeting, please contact Kate Wasson at kate_wasson@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Saturday, March 30th

NWRDC Network Maintenance in Tallahassee
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Saturday, March 30th
- Start time: 04:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Tallahassee Network Maintenance
  Maintenance Start Time: Saturday, March 30, 2019 0400 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Saturday, March 30, 2019 0600 (EDT)
  Service Availability: Possible service interruption expected
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing network maintenance on Saturday, March 30th, on the NWRDC Core network in Tallahassee. During the maintenance window, we will interrupt network connectivity to several NWRDC networks. We will notify all customers when the work has been completed.
  
  Questions?
  We are 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.
NWRDC CIS Virtual Environment Portal Infrastructure Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Saturday, March 30th
- Start time: 09:00am
- End time: 10:00am
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Cloud Infrastructure Services
  Maintenance Start Time: Saturday, March 30, 2019 0900 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Saturday, March 30, 2019 1000 (EDT)
  Service Availability: The vCloud Management Portal will not be available at times during the maintenance window.
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing necessary maintenance of the network infrastructure supporting the vCloud Management Portal access.
  
  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, April 1st

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, April 1st
- 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, April 3rd

NWRDC CIS Cloud Management Portal Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Wednesday, April 3rd
- Start time: 05:00am
- End time: 08:00am
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Cloud Infrastructure Services
  Maintenance Start Time: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 0500 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 0800 (EDT)
  Service Availability: The Cloud Management Portal will be unavailable
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing standard patching of the web portal infrastructure of the NWRDC virtual environments. The Cloud Management Portal will be unavailable during the beginning of the maintenance window. Availability to the management portal will be restored prior to 7 AM. Additional maintenance activities will continue without impact to availability or performance. This maintenance will not affect availability nor performance of any customer virtual machines in the environment.
  
  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.

Saturday, April 6th

NWRDC Storage Services Scheduled Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Saturday, April 6th
- Start time: 09:00am
- End time: 06:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of an upcoming storage maintenance:
  
  Service(s): Tallahassee Storage Services
  Maintenance Start Time: Saturday, April 6, 2019 0900 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Sunday, April 7, 2019 1800 (EDT)
  
  Service Availability: No downtime nor performance impact is expected
  
  Details: The NWRDC Storage team will be working with the vendor to performing storage maintenance on the storage platform utilized by the Mainframe. No outage or customer impact is anticipated.
  
  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, April 8th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, April 8th
- 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, April 15th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, April 15th
- 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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