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

Chief Information Officer

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

Tomorrow

NWRDC Raised Floor Cleaning
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Friday, September 20th
- Start time: 05:00pm
- End time: 06:00am
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Facility Electrical Work
  Maintenance Start Time: Friday, September 20th, 2019 – 1700 (ET)
  Maintenance End Time: Saturday, September 21st, 2019 – 0600 (ET)
  Service Availability: No downtime Expected
  
  Details: Standard yearly under floor cleaning of the smaller raised floor area, Operations, and Customer Service Area.
  
  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, September 21st

NWRDC Facility Electrical Work
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Saturday, September 21st
- Start time: 07:30am
- End time: 02:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Facility Electrical Work
  Maintenance Start Time: Saturday, September 21st, 2019 – 0730 (ET)
  Maintenance End Time: Saturday, September 21st, 2019 – 1400 (ET)
  
  Service Availability: No downtime Expected
  
  Details: Customer electrical installation and removal of deactivated cables.
  
  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.
NWRDC CIS Scheduled Maintenance for Tallahassee and Atlanta
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Saturday, September 21st
- 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 in Tallahassee and Atlanta
  Maintenance Start Time: Saturday, September 21, 2019 0800 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Thursday, September 26, 2017 1800 (EDT)
  Service Availability: Infrastructure customers will experience a prescheduled downtime. Virtual environment customers have no expected downtime or performance impact.
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing standard infrastructure firmware updates in the NWRDC Tallahassee and Atlanta 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.

Monday, September 23rd

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, September 23rd
- 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, September 24th

NWRDC CIS Virtual Environment Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Tuesday, September 24th
- 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, September 24, 2019 0800 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Friday, September 27, 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.

Friday, September 27th

NWRDC Policy Board Meeting
- Calendar: NWRDC Meetings
- Where: Conference Call
- Start date: Friday, September 27th
- Start time: 10:30am
- End time: 11:30am
- If you are interested in joining this meeting, please contact Kate Wasson at kate_wasson@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Sunday, September 29th

Mainframe DB2 - DSN Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Sunday, September 29th
- Start time: 07:00pm
- 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, September 29th 7:00pm (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Monday, September 30th 6:00am (EDT)
  Service Availability: No downtime or performance impact is expected.
  
  Details: This is maintenance of the DSN (Production) 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, September 30th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, September 30th
- 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 7th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 7th
- 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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