Wolverhampton weekly newsletter #20

Weekly Update

• Started a series of 1-2-1 meetings that I have planned on return after Easter with all IT staff - seeing those people first who have taken on new things.  Also usual 1-2-1s with direct reports this week.
• Met with FSE for a briefing and demonstration of Replicon.  We also called the account  manager for a discussion about enterprise pricing on basis it might be an alternative to Agresso if that is not delivered quickly.
• Budget forecast meeting follow up ref infrastructure budget.  Identified £27k approx of positive changes.  Identified issue with budget to follow-up.  Budget discussion with Estates about future air con and fuel costs for generators - £10k impact in 17/18 on IT budget.
• Estates/IT monthly meeting reviewed the DAS activity tracker and marked a number of projects as completed.
• Completed PCI-DSS review based on NCC audit February 2018 and started to develop this year's action plan together.
• Met KPMG auditors and started work on data collection processes - this relates to pre-work for the financial accounts audit September.
• Reviewed the out of hours IT support contract including the data sharing agreement (now with DPO for sign off) and the data impact assessment (also with DPO for review).
• Worked on the JANET upgrade have now obtained costings.
• Met with facilities systems and in particular the incident logging system and mobile apps.
• Held our second Servicenow project board including useful feedback on a review of its reporting capabilities.
• Attended GDPR working Group.
• Met up with Dean of Students covering league table performance and recent Faculty Student Council feedback.  Key themes are being extracted for a report based on 3-400 students engaged in process.

Good News

• No P1 incidents - however dealt with another phishing attempt.
• GDPR Audit completed and returned.
• ATwo team members completed a week's PRINCE training
• One of our team has successfully been admitted to membership of the BCS.
• Our team is mentoring one of our students who has obtained an internship at JISC.