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Philip Howard

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🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Christopher Driscoll Chris Driscoll is the director of Information Technology Services at Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration. Chris is a perfect example of someone who goes above and beyond his job description to incorporate sustainability into his work. When submitting an event form at Katz, users are prompted to indicate whether or not their events are green certified. They are also prompted to learn more by heading to the Student Affairs page on green event certification. This is because Chris took it upon himself to make this compulsory information. In addition to this, Chris applied printing quotas to Pitt Business students, who had previously been given unlimited prints, and supported the installation of digital monitors in Mervis Hall to cut back on printing signage. Chris also had the server room relocated from Mervis to the University Network Operations Center, which resulted in major energy savings for power and HVAC in Mervis.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT
0:12.2	ers today talking with Christopher Driscoll on his last day of 2021.
0:20.6	We are in
0:20.9	2021, right? And that is because
0:23.7	you work at the
0:26.6	University of Pittsburgh and you don't have to come
0:28.7	back to work until January 4th
0:30.7	must be nice. That doesn't come
0:32.8	that doesn't come out as like paid
0:34.8	vacation. Is that paid vacation? That doesn't come out as
0:36.6	vacation, right? That just
0:37.6	like comes with the job. Well, I mean, it's typically, we're typically not off that much, but
0:42.1	universities do give you a pretty nice winter break, and the university did feel generous to
0:49.1	throw some extra days at us at the end of this academic year. Super cool.
0:59.2	The, the, um, expect, had a little bit of an AWS outage today.
1:04.3	Not, not, not of any, any fault of your own or anything like that, but interesting how it affects, uh, how those type of things affect students.
1:07.4	What does an AWS?
1:08.9	How does that affect just out of curiosity, outages in universities,
1:12.9	and we'll get into this in a second as to why you're so special and why I really want to talk
1:17.6	with you because it's a different kind of dynamic in the, I guess we'd say community,
1:24.1	the IT community that you work for, but since it just happened to come up today,
1:29.2	how does a cloud outage affect a university?
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