Chris Topoll - Bsme, Mba, Mem Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, IN, US

Pittsburgh, PA

• Management and oversight of Expedient’s 14 Tier-3 data centers located throughout 10 unique cities
• Management of the facilities budget for all maintenance and operations
• Triage incidents ensuring 24/7 support
• Facilities program management reducing risk and improving operational availability
• Senior supervisor during testing, project work, and both corrective and preventative maintenance
• Vendor oversight

Bronx, New York, United States

• Navy reservist, 3rd Commanding Officer tour:
• Oversight of the operations, administration, readiness, and training of 58 personnel
• Prior Command level tours include: XO - MPP Det Pittsburgh, CO SUBGROUP-8 (Detroit, MI), and CO Expeditionary Maintenance Detachment (Ft. Worth, TX)

Bahrain

• Responsible for all daily activity of a forward deployed U.S. Navy Air Base:
• Led a diverse and multi-talented team of engineers, supply chain managers, administrators, security managers, legal, IT specialists, medical specialists, entertainment, and operations managers
• Ensured multiple tenants were able to execute their missions through supplying all base operating services to include berthing, messing, infrastructure, facilities, transportation, and entertainment
• Collaboratively worked with a foreign military organization that directly resulted in improved host nation relations
• Proactively identified issues. Prioritized initiatives in a risk-driven manner
• Wrote and developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), instructions, and policies

Plano, TX

• Reports to Senior Vice-President, Data Center Operations of Americas. Manages the infrastructure and operations of 4 of 9 domestic Global Data Centers with infrastructure assets totaling over $500 million. Duties.
• Reducing risk by ensuring uptime and operational stability of building systems to support Bank of America’s daily operations (VoIP, e-commerce, ATM, Mortgage Lending Systems).
• Evaluates and scopes all capital projects, including a $9 million dollar project to replace all air handling units in a large data center.
• Led a project to implement a unified inventory management system. Identified the need for an improved and centralized inventory management process. Project included developing the scope and business case, ensuring key.
• Triages incidents ensuring 24/7 support. Triage process includes incident intake, identifying severity of impact to Bank of America, and resolution of mission critical incidents.
• Conducted monthly and annual risk assessment for 4 Global Data Centers to identify process improvements and evaluate areas of risk. Recommendations include optimizing internal processes, reducing costs, identifying.

Camp Smith, HI

• Responsible for preparing and disseminating information for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a Joint Operations Center requiring leadership of over 60 members; ensuring accurate and timely products are delivered in an area.
• Current TS/SCI security clearance.

• Engineering functions include: CAD (SolidWorks), engineering drawing review, and metallurgy (NDT).
• Developed marketing plans to secure business in additional military sectors, nuclear, oil and gas; quoted military bids.

San Diego, CA

• Worked on the commercial and technical development of a market competing technology, that can be applied to most polymers, providing improved low frequency, high energy sound damping, while maintaining low weight.
• Incorporated, wrote the business plan, performed market research, and product licensing.
• Performed due diligence on the prototype, including writing a test schedule and building the device.

San Diego, CA

• Assessed commands in the pioneering field of theater anti-submarine warfare. Trained a diverse field of sailors from entry level to Admirals, in class sizes ranging from 1 to 100 students.
• Recognized by the Commanding Officer, a 2-star Admiral, as a premier instructor.
• Exercise scores were increased by 25% as a result of our training and assessments.
• Wrote a Naval Publication in Anti-Submarine Warfare, the Navy’s current standard for tactics and operations.
• Trained and provided assessments on strategic and operational planning.

Pearl Harbor, HI

• Performed supervisory duties requiring the leadership and management of nuclear and non-nuclear equipment and sailors. Duties included the responsibility of a $2 Billion submarine while leading up to 40 nuclear trained.
• Served as the senior supervisor in a nuclear power plant.
• Certified Nuclear Engineer by the DOE. Responsible for successfully managing complex and extended maintenance on turbines, pumps, motors, valves, boilers, HVAC, process controls, power distribution, and nuclear systems.
• As ship’s safety officer, ship and crew safety was certified as excellent by the Naval Safety Center.
• As the division officer, auxiliary division was certified as excellent during an Operational Reactor Safeguards Exam.

Mba, Business Administration

Focus in entrepreneurship and technology development

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Engineering/Industrial Management

Part-time program including systems analysis, operations research, project management, supply chain management, and quality systems design.

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Soccer Team, Delta Chi, Student SenateEmphasis in metallurgy and machine component design. Minor in mathematics

Joint Professional Military Education

Graduate level military leadership program with focused studies on strategy, logistics, and operational planning.