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

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

michaeldieckmann@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

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

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

Monday, January 21st

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, January 21st
- 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.
Mainframe Operating System Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Monday, January 21st
- Start time: 04:00am
- End time: 06:00am
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming Mainframe maintenance:
  
  Service(s): Mainframe Services
  Maintenance Start Time: Monday, January 21 0400 (EST)
  Maintenance End Time: Monday, January 21 0600 (EST)
  
  Service Availability: No downtime nor performance impact is expected
  
  Details: Maintenance to the mainframe operating system, z/OS 2.2, will be put into the production environment during the normal maintenance window. This maintenance has been in place in both the development and test environments with no issues encountered.
  
  We do not expect this maintenance to affect any of your applications.
  
  Questions?
  We're here to help. If you experience issues after this change has implemented or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Mainframe Team at (850)645-3505 or NWR-Mainframe@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
  
  IT Support
  NWRDC
  850 645-3500
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Tuesday, January 22nd

NWRDC CIS Virtual Environment Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Tuesday, January 22nd
- Start time: 08:00am
- End time: 06:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Cloud Infrastructure Services
  Maintenance Start Time: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 0800 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Friday, January 25, 2019 1800 (EDT)
  
  Service Availability: No downtime nor performance impact is expected
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing standard virtual center server appliance (VCSA) and host patching in the NWRDC Tallahassee and Atlanta virtual environments.
  
  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.

Sunday, January 27th

Mainframe DB2T Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Sunday, January 27th
- Start time: 08:00pm
- End time: 06:00am
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming Mainframe maintenance:
  
  Service(s): Mainframe Services
  Maintenance Start Time: Sunday, January 27th 8:00pm (EST)
  Maintenance End Time: Monday, January 28th 6:00am (EST)
  
  Service Availability: No downtime or performance impact is expected.
  
  Details: This is maintenance of the DB2T (Test) subsystem.
  
  We do not expect this maintenance will affect any of your applications.
  
  Questions?
  We're here to help. If you experience issues after this change has implemented or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Mainframe Team at (850)645-3505 or NWR-Mainframe@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, January 28th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, January 28th
- 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.
NWRDC Network Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Monday, January 28th
- Start time: 06:00am
- End time: 08:00am
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Network Maintenance in Tallahassee and Atlanta
  Maintenance Start Time: Monday, January 28, 2019 0600 (EST)
  Maintenance End Time: Monday, January 28, 2019 0800 (EST)
  Service Availability: No service interruption expected
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing network maintenance on Monday, January 28th, on NWRDC equipment in Tallahassee and Atlanta. During the maintenance window, we do not expect any network interruption. We will notify all customers when 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.

Tuesday, January 29th

NWRDC BaaS Tallahassee Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Tuesday, January 29th
- Start time: 10:00am
- End time: 04:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC BaaS Tallahassee – Avamar Grid
  Maintenance Start Time: Tuesday, January 29, 2018 1000 (EST)
  Maintenance End Time: Tuesday, January 29, 2018 1600 (EST)
  Service Availability: No service interruption expected
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be working with vendor support to make some configuration changes that will assist with future troubleshooting efforts. No downtime is expected and the management console will be available throughout the maintenance window.
  
  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.

Monday, February 4th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, February 4th
- 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, February 11th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, February 11th
- 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, February 18th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, February 18th
- 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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