Departmental Computing Responsibilities Each division and department should assign responsibility for the management of information technology resources and for monitoring compliance with university information technology policies:

1. Assess department business functions and activities at risk and plan for prompt restoration of essential departmental functions and data in the event of a disaster.
   
   
2. Define plans for lifecycle management—lease/purchase implementation and disposal of hardware and software and their operational maintenance.
   
   
3. Ensure appropriate security controls and back-up and record retention procedures are in place.
   
   
4. In order to review resources to comply with these guidelines, please review the Information Technology website.

Cell Phones and Pagers (Each UHD department that has these items assigned to them has its own departmental procedures governing their use.)

Three options for cell phone payments:

1. Mobile telephone instrument owned or leased by the University of Houston Downtown and usage (air time) billed to the university: Phone is for university use only.
   
   
2. Mobile telephone instrument owned or leased by the University of Houston Downtown and usage (air time) billed to the employee: Employee pays the monthly costs of both business and personal telephone calls. The employee may then be reimbursed by the university for necessary business telephone calls and for the business-related prorated share of the monthly service costs (excluding federal excise tax, from which the university is exempt).
   
   
3. Mobile telephone instrument owned or leased by the employee and usage (air time) billed to the employee: Employee shall first pay the monthly costs for both business and personal telephone calls. The employee may then be reimbursed by the university for necessary business telephone calls and for the business-related prorated share of the monthly service costs (excluding federal excise tax, from which the university is exempt).
   
   

Pagers and Cellular Phones for Information Technology Personnel

Cellular Phones and pagers are issued to Information Technology employees for Business use only. The Business Division is responsible for insuring that all pagers and cell phones are accounted for and assigned to the appropriate Information Technology staff.

All Information Technology personnel are issued pagers. When employment is terminated for an Information Technology employee, the pager must be returned to the Business Division. All pagers will be reassigned by the Business Division.

Key Information Technology personnel are issued cell phones. The cellular phones are for business use only. Any exceptions to business use that area created by an unusual/emergency situation must be documented in an e-mail fro the employee to the Manager of his/her group. Each month an invoice is received by the Business Division that must be reviewed by each cell phone holder to verify that the calls made were for business purposes. That invoices is signed by the cell phone holder and filed. When employment is terminated for an Information Technology employee, the cell phone must be returned to the Business Division. All cell phones will be assigned by the Business Division.

The Business Division should be notified if your pager or cell phone is not working properly. If it is decided that you need to take your cell phone in to be repaired, the Business Division should be contacted for a voucher request number prior to you taking the cell phone in to be repaired. If there is a problem with the pager, please notify the Business Division and Arch will be contacted.

It is the responsibility of the employee to insure that cellular phone and pager information is updated on the Information Technology contact list.