SUMMARY

• A skilled Data Center Engineering, Facilities and Operations Management professional offering a career distinguished by commended performance and proven results.
• Extensive knowledge in Data Center Engineering, Facilities & Operations including experience in assisting in ground up construction, facility renovations, vendor/contractor management, procedural development, operational development, staff training & development, compliance reporting, site certification, marketing & sales support.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, DALLAS TEXAS

Sr. Data Center Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensured the operational reliability and availability of all critical facility systems including electrical power delivery, emergency power generation, UPS & Battery systems, Fire Detection & Suppression, mechanical systems and raised floor air delivery.
• Daily operational management of five Tier II type data centers consisting of 62,000 square feet of data center raised floor space located wifin the Dallas Infomart facility.
• Consistently striving to meet 100% uptime goals wifin the facilities.
• Performed electrical and cooling load management wifin the specific raised floor locations while maintaining proper redundancy wifin the electrical and mechanical systems.
• Created and utilized Method of Procedure and Standard Operating Procedure documentation for all critical maintenance and operating processes. Strict adherence to Change Management Process.
• Approved local facility maintenance activities including electrical power, UPS & battery systems, HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, emergency generators, chillers, building automation, site security and general facility maintenance activities.
• Managed a staff of 13 persons consisting of one Data Center Manager, six Data Center Engineers and six data center technicians including training, development and continued education.
• Management of annual Operational and Capital Budgeting including financial forecasting.
• Collected and reported all Monthly Data Center utilization including forecasting of projected data center needs, loads and requirements.
• Provide Sales & Marketing support for sales teams by conducting tours for existing and new customers and responding to sales RFP's. Created all site drawings for sales engineering use and customer presentations.
• Planned and designed all customer cage, cabinet and rack installations to ensure proper cooling and electrical requirements.
• Vendor and contractor management including bid solicitations for all preventive maintenance work.
• Maintain and submit all necessary reporting to support company and client certifications.

Confidential, McKINNEY, TX

Director of Facilities & Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Ensured the operational reliability and availability of all critical facility systems including electrical power delivery, emergency power generation, UPS & Battery systems, Fire Detection & Suppression, mechanical systems and raised floor air delivery.
• Maintain continuous data center facility uptime for multiple data centers consisting of 54,000 square feet of raised floor.
• Responsible for electrical and cooling calculations to ensure availability, reliability and redundancy.
• Responsible for electrical and cooling load management to ensure proper data center operating environment. No service disruption to customer operations.
• Planned all equipment installations to ensure proper cooling and redundant power requirements.
• Managed customer hardware installations ensuring electrical, cooling and redundancy requirements are maintained. Developed and presented forecasting and planning related to data center needs, loads and requirements.
• Selected and qualified all vendor/contractors including contract management.
• Approved facility maintenance activities in support of data center operations including electrical power, UPS, HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, emergency generators, chillers, and general building maintenance.
• Responsible for reviewing and directing activities and personnel supporting critical data center facility operations.
• Managed, trained and developed staff to support infrastructure installation, operations and maintenance activities.
• Developed and maintained active and collaborative relationships wif internal and external customers/vendors and building management.
• Primary interface between all data center facility functions and customers.
• Single point of contact between company and data center provider/owner.
• Represented the organization in a wide variety of committees and professional associations.

Confidential - GRAPEVINE, TEXAS

Data Center Manger / Co-Construction Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Comprehends the engineering design and operational aspects of the facility's critical infrastructure systems Utilize metric reporting to compare installations, facility issues and maintenance activities.
• Immediately response to operational and emergency situations and internal organizations.
• Planned, organized, and directed tasks and projects of 8 facility engineers to ensure 7x24x365 availability and reliability. Manages and schedules staff to support infrastructure installation, operations and maintenance activities. Trained and developed team members.
• Responsible for installation projects wifin the data center environment. Ensured operational standards are maintained.
• Approved facility maintenance activities including electrical power, UPS, HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, emergency generators, chillers, and general building maintenance. Ensured facility infrastructure uptime goals are met.
• Co-managed two data center expansion projects totaling 40,000 square feet including the startup and commissioning.
• Co-managed a large mechanical plant upgrade including 7,500 tons of cooling along wif 6MW of emergency generation including testing and commissioning.