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

Gene Kovacs, Chair

gene.kovacs@fldoe.org

Chief Information Officer

Board of Governors

State University System of Florida

Information Resource Management

325 West Gaines Street

Suite 1625

Tallahassee, FL 32399

850/245-0837

Sandra Stevens, Vice Chair

City, County and Local Government Representative

Management Committee Chair

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

Dr. 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

Dr. Rick Burnette

riburnette@fsu.edu

Associate Vice President and Interim CIO

The Florida State University

P.O. Box 3062620

Tallahassee, FL 32306

850/644-1532

Paul Chafin

Contract Management Customer Representative

Paul.Chafin@flhealth.gov

Chief Technology Officer

Florida Department of Health

Office of Information Technology

4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin B-05

Tallahassee, FL 32399

850/245-4256

Jimmie Harrell

Jimmie.Harrell@floridarevenue.com

IT Director

Florida Department of Revenue

2450 Shumard Oaks Blvd.

Tallahassee, FL 32399

850/717-6812

Robert Seniors

Non-voting Member

robert.seniors@famu.edu

Chief Information Officer/Associate Vice President

Florida A&M University

Information Technology Services

1740 S Martin Luther King Blvd.

Tallahassee, FL 32307

850/599-3560

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

University of West Florida

Non-voting Member

Vacant

NWRDC Maintenance and Meetings Calendar

Tuesday, September 27th

NWRDC BaaS Maintenance for Tallahassee
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Tuesday, September 27th
- Start time: 08:00am
- End time: 05:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you upcoming BaaS maintenance Service(s): Tallahassee and Atlanta Backup and Recovery ServicesMaintenance Start Time: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 - 0800 (ET)Maintenance End Time: Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 1700 (ET)Service Availability: Brief BaaS Service Interruptions during business hoursDetails: NWRDC Recovery Team will perform security maintenance to the BaaS environments in Tallahassee and Atlanta. Each day we will be working during the business day to minimize impact to the daily backups that run throughout the night. During the maintenance, there will be brief intermittent service interruptions as we perform that security updates to each of the customers’ Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) for both Tallahassee and Atlanta. We will make our best effort to keep the interruptions as short as possible. We thank you for your patience as we work to improve Backup and Recovery services at the data center.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, October 3rd

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 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.

Tuesday, October 4th

NWRDC BaaS Maintenance for Tallahassee
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Tuesday, October 4th
- Start time: 08:00am
- End time: 05:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of a change for an upcoming BaaS maintenanceService(s): Tallahassee and Atlanta Backup and Recovery ServicesMaintenance Start Time: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 0800 (ET)Maintenance End Time: Thursday, October 6, 2022 - 1700 (ET)Service Availability: Brief BaaS Service Interruptions during business hoursDetails: NWRDC Recovery Team will perform security maintenance to the BaaS environments in Tallahassee and Atlanta. Each day we will be working during the business day to minimize impact to the daily backups that run throughout the night. During the maintenance, there will be brief intermittent service interruptions as we perform that security updates to each of the customers’ Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) for both Tallahassee and Atlanta. We will make our best effort to keep the interruptions as short as possible. We thank you for your patience as we work to improve Backup and Recovery services at the data center. 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, October 10th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 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, October 17th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 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.

Friday, October 21st

NWRDC Policy Board Meeting
- Calendar: NWRDC Meetings
- Start date: Friday, October 21st
- Start time: 11:15am
- End time: 12:15pm
- Regular meeting of the NWRDC Policy Board. If you are interested in attending this meeting, please contact kate_wasson@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Monday, October 24th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 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, October 31st

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 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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