Cindy Patterson, CTO Mentor Candidate

 

Technical Infrastructure and Data Management was presented on Friday evening, June 5th, by Jeremy Powell, Director of Technology, Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District.  The evening began with a group discussion of our pre-work, obtaining information about our individual data centers and systems.  The group shared opportunities for improvements.  The next topic was a lively discussion about managing competing technologies in a K-12 environment with an emphasis on communicating with the customer base.  Jeremy introduced data governance and the importance of identifying the system of record.  The participants discussed various scenarios and identified the data owners for that scenario.  The class discussed data quality and data security in relationship to data governance.  Jeremy wrapped up the evening with a review of the artifact assignment.