QUESTION
Were IBM's senior executives informed about snow day preparations?
1:44:07
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IBM's senior executives were not informed about the snow day preparations by the Department of Education's (DOE) leadership.
- Technical staff from DOE was in touch with IBM's technical staff before the snow day.
- Vanessa Hunt, Senior State Executive at IBM, confirms neither she nor her senior colleagues were informed.
- The information exchange regarding preparations was limited to technical staff on both sides.
- This indicates a lack of communication at the leadership level between DOE and IBM regarding the snow day preparations.
Shekar Krishnan
1:44:07
I think one thing I testified just to be clear was that the day before the snow day in in preparation for it, the technical staff at DOT was in touch with your technical staff at IBM.
UNKNOWN
1:44:20
Yes.
Shekar Krishnan
1:44:21
Were you ever as as you're a senior executive at IBM.
1:44:25
Right?
1:44:26
Were you ever informed the day or in the days prior to this no day of the preparations for it?
Vanessa Hunt
1:44:32
No.
1:44:32
I was not.
Shekar Krishnan
1:44:33
Were any of your colleagues at your senior level informed of the preparations?
Vanessa Hunt
1:44:38
No.
1:44:38
They were not.
Shekar Krishnan
1:44:39
So it was essentially the as you mentioned, the steps were actually operating the system through the technical aspects of it.
1:44:48
But no one at a leadership level at the company were informed by anyone at leadership level by DOE of this issue.
Vanessa Hunt
1:44:53
Yes.
1:44:53
That's correct.
1:44:54
And