Date Communication Topics for the Week05/31/2016 Project Design Meeting for the Data Center Virtualization and Infrastructure Upgrade

05/31/2016 Tour of Data Center 4 (CoLocation Facility) Arranging Rack Space for Future Equipment

05/31/2016 New Phones Are Starting To Be Delivered Next Week

06/01/2016 Major Summer Work Planned to Cut Campuses Over to Dense Wireless at Data Center 4

06/02/2016 Technology Transformation Tactical Team (T4) Meetings on June 2, 2016

06/02/2016 LANDesk Replacement for Novell Zenworks is Underway at the Elementary Schools

06/03/2016 Danish Elementary Technology Conference Featuring the Hovercam for Blended Learning

06/03/2016 Cybersecurity Control and Assessment Workshop

06/03/2016 High Speed Wireless Cabling Projects Continue Through the Summer

05/27/2016 Closing Message and Weekly Reflection

Technology Leadership and Communication (TLC)

Week Ending June 3, 2016

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer June 3, 2016

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Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer May 31, 2016

Work continues, trying to define all of the requirements

for the data center virtualization and infrastructure

upgrade, with staff from Paula Ross’ team (Network

Infrastructure and Communications) and strategic

partners working on the project. Frankie Jackson

participated in a design meeting on May 31, 2016,

hoping to nail down the bill of materials so the order for

equipment can be processed. Though very close, the

teams are reviewing every line item for accuracy.

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Project Design Meeting for the Data Center Virtualization and

Infrastructure Upgrade (Bond Goals 4.1 and 4.2)

Detail Design Review on May 31, 2016

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer

New Phones Are Starting To Be Delivered Next Week at

the Police Station, Carlton Center, Windfern, and Bleyl

May 31, 2016

Frankie Jackson, Paula Ross, and Charles Newton participated in the

weekly status conference call on Tuesday, May 31, 2016, with AT&T’s

project management team assigned to CFISD, working on Bond Goal

5.1, replace our current telephone system with Voice over IP (VoIP). The

following table slows the list of action items that were discussed.

Status RISK Description

In Progress High Porting Orders will be placed as soon as IPFLEX is turned up

In Progress Medium Process document for Remote sites

Waiting on CFISD Medium Training Schedule

In Progress Medium Charles Approval in SRS Documents

In Progress Medium Configuration of Remote Sites on UC servers

In Progress Medium Remote Site Equipment roll out

In Progress Medium Shipping schedule

Also, Frankie toured Data Center 4

(our colocation facility) to observe the

new AT&T Virtual Private Network

(VPN) which needed to connect the

new unified communications system

with VoIP. All is on schedule for a

major rollout of the new phone system

over the summer!

Great News! New Phones Will Be

Delivered Next Week to the

Following Sites:

• Security / Police Station

• Carlton Center

• Windfern High School

• Bleyl Middle School

AT&T’s Virtual Private Network

(VPN) Online at Data Center 4

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer May 31, 2016

Tour of Data Center 4 (CoLocation Facility)

Arranging Rack Space for Future Equipment

Virtualization and Infrastructure Upgrade (Bond Goals 4.1 & 4.2)

Frankie Jackson toured Data Center 4 with Greg Rhodes and Lance Melancon on Tuesday, May 31, 2016. The

team is down to defining the technical details of arranging rack space and the placement of network electronics in

our colocation facility cage. Shown in the following pictures, on the right are three cabinets that will be dedicated

to virtualized server space and data storage. Layer3’s Paul Maney and Joel McCotter are shown in the middle,

checking the specifications and sizes of the network electronics. Greg Rhodes, on the right, points to the cabinet

where the new monitoring system, eLERT, will be installed. Progress is underway and our team is anxious to start. .

Layer3 checks rack space size for new

network electronics in Data Center 4

Greg Rhodes shows where

the new alert system

(eLERT) will be installed in

Data Center 4.

Cabinets in Data

Center 4 reserved

for future virtualized

data storage.

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer

Major Summer Work Planned to Cut Campuses Over

to Dense Wireless at Data Center 4

June 1, 2016

The Enterprise Communications

Network (ECN) team met with

Layer3 and Aruba on Wednesday,

June 1, 2016, to review plans for

the summer. The schedule to the

right shows major work scheduled

in the area of connecting to dense

wireless at Data Center 4.

Anna Senties, Ray Leung, Rick Baxter, Paula Ross, Larry Barrios, Jeanette Martinez,

Ken Wasko, Henry Deleon, and Dave Kapavik

Campus Wave 1

Replace Old

Wireless

Wave 4

Install

Dense

Wireless

Wave 5A

Connect to

Data Center 3

Wave 5B

Connect to

Data Center 4

Wave 10

Install

Outside

Wireless

Cy-Lakes HS 100% 100% 100% 6/9/2016 Summer 2016

Cy-Ranch HS 100% 100% 100% 6/9/2016 Summer 2016

Berry Center 100% 100% 100% 6/16/2016 Summer 2016

Cy-Fair HS 100% 100% 100% 6/13/2016 Summer 2016

Cy-Falls HS 100% 100% 100% 6/8/2016 Summer 2016

Cy-Ridge HS 100% 100% 100% 6/14/2016 Summer 2016

Jersey V HS 100% 100% 100% 6/14/2016 Summer 2016

Langham C HS 100% 100% 100% 6/15/2016 Summer 2016

Windfern HS 100% 100% 100% 6/15/2016 Summer 2016

Cy-Springs HS 100% 100% 100% 6/8/2016 Summer 2016

Cy-Creek HS 100% 100% 100% 6/16/2016 Summer 2016

Summer Schedules Set for Major Wireless Implementation

The detailed schedule for all

2014 Bond Technology

Infrastructure work is available

here. Columns F-J show all

wireless related schedules.

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer

Layer3 Provides Wireless Training for Ray Leung,

ECN’s New Wireless Network Engineer

June 1, 2016

After the Enterprise Communications and Network (ECN) team meeting with Layer3 and Aruba on

Wednesday, June 1, 2016, Frankie Jackson snapped the below picture showing Henry Deleon (Layer3)

training our new wireless network engineer, Ray Leung. Now that Ray has been on the job for about a month,

he’s ready to step in and start supporting the wireless components of the network. Henry was willing to help

our team by showing Ray various components of the internal wireless network, including monitoring tools.

Henry Deleon from Layer3 shown working with Ray Leung in

Aruba Wireless Airwave Technologies

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer June 2, 2016

SUS ASSETS

8:00 a.m.

Technology Transformation Tactical Team (T4)

Meetings on June 2, 2016

10:00 a.m.

Frankie Jackson met with seven Technology Transformation Tactical Teams (T4) on Thursday, June 2, 2016. The

focus of each meeting included statusing each team’s priorities, progress, and goals. The following are the

meeting times conducted with each team.

Items of specific concentration included:

Assessing end of the year technician

meeting effectiveness,

Reviewing the plans for developing

technician training over the summer,

Analyzing current key performance

indicators and revising them to be more

specific and focused on high

performance, and

Reviewing campus network upgrades

and celebrating our success.

9:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m.11:00 a.m.

The highlight of

the NMO meeting

was Greg Rhodes’

leadership topic

on “What Are We

Building.”

The focus of the

ECN team was

discussing

summer work

plans and figuring

out how to juggle

resources across

major projects.

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer June 2, 2016

LANDesk Replacement for Novell Zenworks is

Underway at the Elementary Schools

Josh Zhang and Larry Barrios at Hancock Elementary

Upgrading from ZENWorks to LANDesk

Larry Barrios’ Device Imaging and Integration (DII)

team is working feverishly to replace Novell

ZenWorks with the LANDesk desktop

management enterprise software.

Larry is working to prepare a comprehensive

schedule that includes scheduled dates for all

tasks, including package (image) building, and

updates for the remaining elementary schools,

secondary schools, and service centers.

On Thursday, June 2, 2016, Frankie visited Josh

Zhang and Larry at Hancock elementary school to

observe how the conversion is going. The

transition to LANDesk must be complete by July

31, 2016. We are not budgeted in the 2016-2017

for ZenWorks annual support. Additionally, we

have notified Novell that we would not be

renewing our annual contract.

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer

Danish Elementary Summer Technology Conference –

Featuring the New Hovercam for Blended Learning

June 3, 2016

Frankie Jackson participated in Danish Elementary school’s summer

technology conference on Friday morning, June 3, 2016. She specifically

attended Margaret Grice’s training on how to use the HoverCam, the new

document cameras purchased from 2014 Bond Instructional Technology

funds. Every classroom in the district is receiving one.

Be sure and checkout this short video to see how the HoverCam can be

used to support blended learning in a classroom environment.

Margaret Grice, Instructional Technology Trainer, showing teachers at Danish Elementary how to

use the HoverCam’s in a Blended Learning classroom environment.

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer June 3, 2016

High Speed Wireless Cabling Projects Continue

Through the Summer

The high speed wireless cabling projects continue through

the summer. Teams are making major headway at the

campuses. The following table shows overall average

percent completions. Teams are excited to announce that

98% of the original cabling work scheduled for the

campuses is complete. Other cabling work that was

identified as additional work needed is at 88% complete.

This is great news. Without the high speed cabling installed,

dense deployment wireless cannot be completed.

The detailed schedule for all 2014 Bond

Technology Infrastructure work is

available here.

iSphere iSphere

Bond Goal 3.1 Bond Goal 3.1Type Campus Wave 2A

Install Campus

Cabling

(Original)

Wave 2B

Install Campus

Cabling

(Additional)

HUBSHUB Avg Complete 100% 100%

HS HS Avg Complete 100% 100%

MS Avg MS Average 100% 97%

ES ES Avg Completion 90% 55%

Overall Average 98% 88%

3.2 Upgrade Fiber and Cabling Connectivity

CA

BLI

NG

PLA

NN

ING

TEST

ING

INSP

ECTI

ON

Cabling Project Workflow

PlanningApprove

DisapproveAP Location

Heat Map Creation

AP Heat Map Document

Cable-runs Cable TerminationFloor and Wall Penetrations

(Cores)

Project Change Requests

Punch-list Re-work

Data Collection Data CollectionPunch-list

Drop-Tracker Document

Certification Document

Presidio/MCA Inspection

Layer 3 Inspection CFISD InspectionPunch-

listPunch-

listPunch-

list

Scheduling

Cyber Security Information

Houston Urban Area Security Initiative Workshop

Cyber Security Control Mini-Assessment

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer

Participation in the Houston Urban Area Security

Initiative: Cybersecurity Mini-Assessment Workshop

June 3, 2016

Frankie Jackson participated in the Houston Urban Area

Security Initiative (UASI): Cybersecurity Mini-

Assessment Workshop on Friday, June 3, 2016. Dava

Morris also attended, along with many other K-12 local

area school districts. Klein ISD hosted the event. The

workshop included going through a mini-assessment to

give participants an awareness of the type of controls

that need to be in place.

The workshop was informative. Plans are underway to

talk to the UASI about conducting a full assessment in

the future.

Leadership and Vision

Posted by Frankie Jackson, Chief Technology Officer

Closing Message and Reflection for the Week

June 3, 2016

Technology Services VISION

Be the district that transforms education

MISSION: LEAD in Providing

World-Class Quality K-12 Systems

These are the

guiding core

VALUES for how

we provide

service

Efficient

Accessible

Systematic

Highly-Skilled

Student-Focused

Service-Oriented

A huge highlight for me was participating in the

Danish elementary technology conference on

Friday. We’ve communicated to campuses over

the past two years that we had to upgrade the

infrastructure first, before we could deliver instructional

technology. The conference was a reminder of how close

we are and what the impact will be. Teachers are starting to

receive new Promethean boards, hovercams, audio

systems, and devices. What a great way to end the school

year, seeing teachers being trained on new technology

tools! I was thrilled and am so proud!. – Frankie Jackson