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

Chief 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

Non-voting Member

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

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

Saturday, July 20th

NWRDC CIS Infrastructure Maintenance in Tallahassee
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Saturday, July 20th
- Start time: 09:00am
- End time: 01:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Cloud Infrastructure Services in Tallahassee
  Maintenance Start Time: Saturday, July 20, 2019 0900 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Saturday, July 20, 2019 1300 (EDT)
  Service Availability: No downtime nor performance impact is expected
  
  Details: The NWRDC Storage team will be migrating the storage connections for the NWRDC Cloud Infrastructure to new storage switches in Tallahassee. During this maintenance, individual storage paths will be briefly interrupted as we move and verify each connection to the new switches. The NWRDC Cloud Infrastructure is currently connected through redundant paths to the storage. Due to this, we do not anticipate this to have a customer or service impact outside of this brief loss of redundancy. We will send out an additional email when the work has been completed.
  
  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.
VR UCS Firmware Updates
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Saturday, July 20th
- Start time: 10:00am
- 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: Saturday, July 20, 2019 1000 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Saturday, July 20, 2019 1800 (EDT)
  
  Service Availability: No downtime nor performance impact is expected.
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing standard infrastructure firmware updates in the VR UCS 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.

Monday, July 22nd

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, July 22nd
- 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.

Tuesday, July 23rd

NWRDC CIS Virtual Environment Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Tuesday, July 23rd
- 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, July 23, 2019 0800 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Friday, July 26, 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.

Saturday, July 27th

NWRDC Ticketing System/Service Portal Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Saturday, July 27th
- Start time: 11:30am
- End time: 03:30pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Ticketing System/Service Portal
  Maintenance Start Time: Saturday, July 27, 2019 1130 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Saturday, July 27, 2019 1530 (EDT)
  Service Availability: Service Portal access may be temporarily unavailable
  
  Details: The NWRDC Ticketing System/Service Portal will be undergoing a regularly scheduled upgrade. During this upgrade, access to the Service Portal may be temporarily unavailable. If you are unable to submit a ticket during this maintenance window, please contact the NWRDC Operations Team at (850) 645-3500 and they will assist you.
  
  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 29th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, July 29th
- 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, August 5th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, August 5th
- 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, August 12th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, August 12th
- 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, August 19th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, August 19th
- 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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