Data Center Design Consultant

Skills

Employment History:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experience as a Data Centre Manager operations, and consultant able to oversee entire Data Center operation, manage team members, and ensure day-to-day operations productions schedules are executed according to company standards.
• Ability to handle any situation inherited in Information technology operations, e.g., customers, staff personnel, mainframe/software and hardware, facilities management, information and physical security, contingency planning and disaster recovery and senior managerial experience.
• Exceptional relationships with customers, facility engineering for managing power and cooling capacity in the Data Centre s and monitoring environmental conditions within the Data Centre s .
• Had Data center architectural and operational managerial background experience
• Ensuring all policies and procedures are managed, up to date in accordance to company standards, compliances, and provide improvements based on my experiences.
• Responsible for the management of personnel, budgets, operations assessment, planning and acquisition of systems in support of business and technology plans. With the design, installation and maintenance of IS equipment environments.
• Project Management, ITILv3, and ISO-200x knowledge and experience.
• Business Impact Analysis, Continuity, with Contingency and Disaster Recovery Experience with physical security and monitoring software.
• Experience in data center implementation inception to commissioning.
• Responsible in identifying PM vulnerabilities/optimization opportunities.
• Proficient in quotation evaluation, resource planning, budgeting and PM for data center fire-protection detection systems with Physical Security planning and defining state of the art IP based systems.
• Experienced in developing data center mechanical, electrical, and plumbing requirements.
• Assists and handle Internal and external audits for IT and Data Centre s .
• Experience with monitoring software and data center physical/logical security requirements.
• Responsible for the management and control of multiple disciplines involved in an array of software, hardware and facility projects.
• Excellent skills focused on large scale projects.
• Expertise in using MS Office tools.

Significant Projects at JJA:

• Digital Realty DLR project manager in the planning for DLR new data centers in Austin, Houston and San Antonio Texas ranging in DC sizes of 40 to100k SF with capacity planning space programming, etc. engineering planning reviews, operations peer reviews, and other client engineering projects as directed.
• Westland Bunker developed project plan and specifications for the design of new 20k SF Underground Tier 3 Uptime classification data center.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Professional experience in the design of data center and other mission critical projects, with programming development and analysis-reviews for technology, equipment and design criteria for power, air, space, development for long term, required for architecture and engineering specifications development.
• Technology project planning experience and hands on business and technical team development, for due-diligence in-house/external sources , with review of site potential risks, site location, physical security surveys and analysis concerning in coming communications services, and electrical power availability and sources redundancies , and overall review of threads and vulnerabilities.
• Responsible in identifying PM vulnerabilities/optimization opportunities.
• Proficient in quotation evaluation, resource planning, budgeting and PM for data center fire-protection detection systems with Physical Security planning and defining state of the art IP based systems.
• Experienced in developing data center mechanical, electrical, and plumbing requirements.
• Had Data center architectural and operational managerial background experience
• Experience in data center implementation inception to commissioning.
• Excellent skills focused on large scale projects.
• Critical Data Center facilities space planning and power distribution support for incoming building power sources, to designated transformers, emergency generation sizes, technology to be used, types and quantities of main switch gear, UPS systems, automatic transfer switches, PDUs, cooling efficiencies, cabling, pathways, and connectivity requirements, Chillers, computer air units, equipment types and air distribution, fire suppression, security systems, and review of building and equipment automated systems specifications design intend by others based on Tier level requirements.

Confidential

Project Manager for start of new data center design Cologix in the role of project programming systems business and technical requirements.

Confidential

Regional Data Center Consultant and start of new office for IdGroup.

Projects included PM for Digital Realty in Richardson Texas and San Antonio Texas new construction of 60,000SF data center suites.

Confidential

• Principal, data center consultant providing holistic complete data center consulting services including management of 10 design professionals for client project planning, facility/program management, telecommunications planning, physical security planning, building management systems and other critical systems analysis and programming critical systems for data center client base. Parallel Technologies principals created and developed PTI in support of projects due to the demise of TAP, Inc. - another data center architectural and engineering firm from Arlington Texas.

Confidential

new Corporate campus data center design of 85k SF in Nottingham England, provided overall Program Manager support and DC consultant, responsible for development, overseeing, validating, and planning with IT operations, facilities and external A/E firms involved in the planning and design of a new corporate campus for Experian UK. The design featured Tier 3, modular and scalable construction methods for growth which would not impact operations. These concepts were developed by our team and are regarded as first in the industry. The project management detail responsibilities included business/technical plan development, migration/relocation strategic tactical plans for the move, with capacity planning, CR/DR plans, site review for Tier development and sustainable design, technical programming and planning for 7 year operations growth, and DC tactical / strategic planning of systems, personnel, functions and other remote centers from three different operations and data centers located in and around England, and Nottingham. The project was a complete success and was delivered on time, and within budget.