We are thrilled to announce that we have completed our recruitment for the Director of Customer Relationship Products and that Zachary (Zach) Przybilla will be joining UCLA IT Services in this role effective May 6, 2024.
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I am writing to share that the Wave Nine job opportunities are now available for application on the UCLA Careers website. Each listing will remain open for at least two weeks from its initial posting date. We encourage all interested applicants to explore the available job descriptions and consider applying for positions that align with their qualifications and experience. Additional positions across our organization will be posted in the coming months.
I would like to share a message directly with you about recent events on campus. I was attending a UC systemwide event this morning, so I was not able to join our All-Staff meeting. Learning about the violence last night and seeing our community's safety compromised has been truly heartbreaking.
Late last night, a group of instigators came to Royce Quad to forcefully attack the encampment that has been established there to advocate for Palestinian rights. Physical violence ensued, and our campus requested support from external law enforcement agencies to help end this appalling assault, quell the fighting and protect our community.
I would like to share the latest update on our IT initiatives through the IT Executive Dashboard, with highlights provided below.
This past Thursday, a group of demonstrators — both members of the UCLA community and others unaffiliated with our campus — established an unauthorized physical encampment on part of Royce Quad, joining those who have set up similar presences at universities around the country.
We're thrilled to announce a suite of new features designed to make your SiteDen experience more versatile and user-friendly.
The Mainframe Systems team will upgrade the OASIS CICS regions from V5.4 to V5.6 on Sunday, 6/16/24, at 6 a.m. The upgrade is anticipated to be completed before 9 a.m. and will be monitored post-implementation until 10 a.m.
This upgrade is necessary since the current version is no longer supported.
The rapid rise of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools over the past several years has been met with feelings of both enthusiasm and concern. However, no matter how one feels about this technology, it certainly has significant implications for the way we conduct our research, academic and administrative activities.
To uphold my commitment ensuring that all our academic, administrative, and research partners throughout UCLA have full visibility into our ITS Program Portfolio, I’d like to share the IT Executive Dashboard and a few notable highlights.
IAMUCLA Support and the IT Services (ITS) teams will perform a Disaster Recovery (DR) exercise of the UCLA Single Sign-On (SSO) service on Sunday, 3/24/2024 from 1-2 a.m. PT. This is to ensure that critical applications will function as expected during an outage.
As we progress through the winter quarter, I’d like to share the IT Executive Dashboard and a few notable highlights with you.
We are writing to share that Google has introduced a new model for Google Workspace for Education (GWE) that ends unlimited storage on Nov. 1, 2024, for all educational institutions.
DESCRIPTION: UCLA IT Services — Network Services will be upgrading the code on the campus core routers on Sunday, March 3, 0500-1400. No network interruption is expected during the maintenance as core routers will be upgraded one at a time, and the network traffic will be routed to redundant paths.
On January 24, 2024, our IT team identified and stopped an illegal intrusion into the Life Sciences Division IT environment. We believe our actions isolated the unauthorized access to the targeted area, which is 1.19% of the campus community. We have engaged a leading cybersecurity firm to assist in our response and notified the FBI. With their assistance, we are conducting a thorough assessment of the incident, including determining the extent of the impact to servers and data.
To kick off the New Year, I’d like to share the IT Executive Dashboard and a few notable highlights.
As the year concludes, I’d like to share the IT Executive Dashboard along with several significant highlights.
UCLA IT Services completed an assessment of current usage to understand the impact of this change and inform a solution that is best for our community. In the months ahead, UCLA will implement incremental changes on the following schedule...
As part of our monthly communication cadence, please find the latest IT Executive Dashboard, along with key highlights for this month.
I hope this message finds you well and enjoying the fall quarter. Here's a brief update on our ongoing projects, as detailed in the IT Executive Dashboard and highlights.