Departmental Team

Departmental tasks
  Staff meetings
  Maintain department calendar and office scheduling
  Maintain inventory of equipment loaners and video tapes


Student Asst.-based tasks
  Recruiting, hiring, evaluating and signing of timesheets
    for student temp svce employees
  Training student workers (office, student centers)
  Student Assistants wear an item that easily identifies them as an employee
    of Distributed Computing/Telemedia and what their name is (e.g., name tag).


Customer tasks
  RSI Steering Committee
  Conduct customer needs-analysis/technology interviews
  Departmental steward/consultation
  Chair Student Technology Advisory Board
  Participate on College Strategic Planning committee
  Participate with Annual Fund committee on technology resource planning
  Develop office automation "suite of skills/documentation of desirable
    practices in offices"
  Assisting with/authoring grant appliations for equipment/software/services   


Office tasks
  Maintain office supplies.
  Track equipment/resources loaned out/sent for repairs.


Planning/Development tasks
  Evaluate current technology and upgrade needs of our customers and partners.
  Maintain contacts with major vendors.
  Stay abreast of and track industry trends/developments.
  Conduct literature review and research for projects and proposals.
  Plan for new technologies, external/internal changes  (e.g., SUNYCard,
    wireless, PDAs, etc).
  Attend and participate in Master Plan meetings.
  All information technology purchases coordinated by DCTM developed and
    prepared to maximize their value to the campus.
  Arrange and coordinate equipment/software brokering (arranging swaps and
    trades).


Public Relations/Showcasing tasks
  Presentations made for admissions, Benefits Fair, teacher groups, alumni.
  Provide tours of campus telecommunications network facilities as requested.
  Present accomplishments and projects at professional conferences    
     (e.g., FACT, SUNY Technology Confernence, Educom, ACUTA, etc.)


Projects
  Develop and customize departmental/office automation projects (e.g., 
    Admissions)
  SUNY collaboration projects (e.g., Plattsburgh)


Public Service
  Annual Fund business volunteer
  Give tours to off-campus visitors


Staff Development
  Attend technical seminars, workshops on technology


Training 
  Develop, plan and schedule training on hardware, software, campus services, 
    etc. for students, faculty/staff
  Reservations for training sessions, sign-in lists of participants, and    
    evaluations by participants of the training sessions  
  Conduct training sessions for students, faculty, staff
  Coordinate and provide Brown-bag presentations.
  Develop specialized training materials (ie. Student Worker Handbook, etc.)
    for information/training of student workers.


Non-Departmental tasks
  Participate in off-campus committees, workgroups as a representative of 
   the department.
  Write letters of recommendation for students, colleagues.
  Building Administrator for Carson Hall.
  Building Administrator for Kellas Hall.
  Participate on Campus-Parking committee.
  Complete call-in and written vendor surveys/questionnaires.