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

Today

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, September 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.
NWRDC Network Maintenance for the Mainframe
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Monday, September 24th
- Start time: 02:30am
- End time: 04:30am
- Service(s): NWRDC Tallahassee Network Maintenance
  Maintenance Start Time: Monday, September 24, 2018 0230 (EDT)
  Maintenance End Time: Monday, September 24, 2018 0430 (EDT)
  Service Availability: Network Maintenance will occur during the weekly Mainframe maintenance window
  
  Details: During the weekly Mainframe IPL maintenance window, NWRDC staff will be performing network maintenance to subnet 199.44.72.0/24, which contains nwrdc.fsu.edu. Since this will be during the Mainframe IPL, there should be no interruption of service. We will notify all customers when 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.

Thursday, September 27th

NWRDC CIS Virtual Environment Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Thursday, September 27th
- Start time: 08:00am
- End time: 04:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Cloud Infrastructure Services
  Maintenance Start Time: Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 0800 (ET)
  Maintenance End Time: Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 1600 (ET)
  Service Availability: No downtime nor performance impact is expected
  
  Details: NWRDC staff will be performing standard host maintenance 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.
NWRDC Management Committee Meeting
- Calendar: NWRDC Meetings
- Start date: Thursday, September 27th
- Start time: 11:30am
- End time: 12:30pm
- Regular monthly meeting of the NWRDC Management Committee. If you are interested in joining this meeting, please contact Kate Wasson at kate_wasson@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
- Click for details on Google calendar.

Saturday, September 29th

Facility Electrical Work
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Saturday, September 29th
- Start time: 07:30am
- End time: 01:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:
  
  Service(s): NWRDC Facility Electrical Work
  Maintenance Start Time: Saturday, September 29, 2018 – 0730 (ET)
  Maintenance End Time: Saturday, September 29, 2018 – 1300 (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.

Monday, October 1st

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

Sunday, October 7th

NWRDC Storage Services Scheduled Microcode Upgrade
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Sunday, October 7th
- Start time: 07:00am
- End time: 06:00pm
- Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of an upcoming standard storage upgrade:
  
  Service(s): Tallahassee and Atlanta Storage Services
  Maintenance Start Time: Sunday, Oct 7, 2018 0700 (ET)
  Maintenance End Time: Sunday, Oct 7, 2018 1800 (ET)
  Service Availability: No downtime nor performance impact is expected
  
  Details: The NWRDC Storage team will be performing a microcode upgrade on storage systems for our Storage as a Service offerings in Tallahassee and Atlanta. 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, October 8th

Mainframe IPL
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Where: NWRDC
- Start date: Monday, October 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.
Thruput Manager Maintenance
- Calendar: NWRDC Maintenance
- Start date: Monday, October 8th
- Start time: 05:00am
- 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, October 8th 5:00am (ET)
  Maintenance End Time: Monday, October 8th 6:00am (ET)
  
  Service Availability: No downtime/performance impact is expected
  
  Details: This is maintenance of the mainframe Thruput Manager product and will be performed during our regularly scheduled maintenance window.
  
  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, October 15th

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

Monday, October 22nd

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

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