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- Office Manager: Beth McKown(Primary for all theme areas), Deanna Spivey (backup for Culture and Society): The office managers will help you book and get reimbursed for NCSA related travel, reserve meeting spaces, find supplies for you or order supplies, equipment, pizza etc (assuming you have a budget code to charge it to!), fill out paperwork for new employees and students, and help advise you on how to do nearly everything.
- Facilities: Tedra Tuttle (Ground Floor, 1002A): Office keys, configuration of key cards, use of NCSA building, furniture requests. If you want to have white boards, monitors, pin boards etc hung in your office, this can be arranged through an appropriate office manager.
- Public Affairs: Kristin Williamson: External and internal communications, website design and development, design and production of promotional materials, media relations, event coordination and promotion (including event websites, registration forms, logistics, calls for participation, etc), tours of Blue Waters, Bytes and Pieces weekly NCSA newsletter, ACCESS external newsletter, design and production of promotional materials, copy-editing/proofreading, creation of graphics and info graphics, photography. Email news stories to the team at newsdesk@ncsa.illinois.edu
- Finance: Karen Hartman & Tamara Roosevelt: pre-award ( budget preparation for proposals, proposal submission, etc), post-award, accounting/statements, audit support, government costing compliance, cost-recovery rate development, software expertise (Banner, BA3, Excel), budgeting, staff planning and other financial issues. Email the finance office at faaccounting@ncsa.illinois.edu.
- Human Resources: Emily Scherbring: recruiting and hiring NCSA-funded staff, postdocs and graduate students, appointment changes, visas. Note that if you have a 0% NCSA appointment, or are a sponsored guest, then your own HR issues (vacations, sick leave, salary, etc) should all be conducted through your home unit's office.
- Information Technology Services: Douglas Fein: desktop support, data backup, printers/copiers/fax, mailing lists, website hosting, issue tracking, wiki, FTP, AFS, version control servers, MySQL, wired/wireless networking, linux, jabber, portal development, internal administrative tools (MIS).
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The NCSA storage condo provides mid-level scalable storage from 10 terabytes to over a petabyte. The cost-recovery fee-for-service model starts at around $100/terabyte/year. Each project gets a private file system/s, access to data is via file system (NFS) or Globus. Additional services and access options are available via additional consulting fees. Use cases for this type of storage are hosting of large data sets, operational data storage and scratch space for analysis, mid-term data storage for archival needs. Please contact Michelle Butler (mlbutler@illinois.edu) for more information.
Media Lab
The NCSA Media Lab is located on the 2nd floor of the building in room 2029 and can be reserved on the NCSA Outlook calendar share as NCSA-2029. The room has key code entry, to get the number please contact Jeff Carpenter after you make your reservation. The Advanced Visualization Lab has made a Mac Pro available to staff use for creating and working with multimedia files.
- The computer is a Mac Pro with 2 3.06 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon processors and 64 GB of RAM and has a Blackmagic Design DeckLink 4K Extreme video card for digitizing video and audio.
- There are 2 SSD drives installed for temporary storage of your project files. Being that this is a public space, it is recommended that you upload your projects and completed files to the cloud or removable storage to ensure that they will be available when you need them.
- The full Adobe Creative Cloud suite is installed.
- An Epson V750 Pro flat bed scanner for scanning photographs and slides is available.
- Unity Game Engine is installed, but you will need your own account to use the software.
- Handbrake open source video transcoder is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
- All of the standard Apple software, like GarageBand & iMovie are also available to use.
For more information on the room or equipment, or basic advice, please contact Jeff Carpenter (jdcarpen@illinois.edu).
Creative Lab/e-Dream Lab
The Creative Lab contains an extensive list of equipment including audio, Mac and PC computers, projectors, network and video routing, camera equipment, cables/adapters/mics, lighting, and motion capture among others. For more information on the room or equipment, please contact Donna Cox (donnacox@illinois.edu).
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