Daniel Lee, P.E. Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Hired as the first HVAC Mechanical Engineer on the Data Center Design Team for the first Facebook greenfield data center project located in Prineville, OR, as an individual contributor. Promoted to a manager within 5 years. Currently Director of the global Data Center Design Team, overseeing North America, Europe, and Asia, leading 70+ staff of managers, electrical, mechanical, building automation systems controls engineers, architects, and connectivity engineers. Experienced aggressive growth from 1250 staff in 2010 at Meta to currently over 65K staff globally.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Managed a design team including electrical, mechanical, building automation systems controls engineers, and architects for multiple large scale greenfield and modular/rapid deployment design/construction projects in North America and Europe.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

DC Project Design Coordinator and DC HVAC Engineer for the FB greenfield DCs in North America and Europe, which required closely collaborating with internal stakeholders and external design consultants/contractors/vendors in order to manage the DC architecture and engineering design, construction administration, project completion, commissioning and transition to Facilities Operations (FacOps) and Site Operations. Provided HVAC Engineering support for FacOps and executed energy retrofit projects on existing collocation sites in Silicon Valley and Ashburn, VA. Liaison to FB Communications which included providing DC technical support for external press inquiries, contributing to the Open Compute Project V1 DC Design Specification creation and launch, authoring FB Engineering Blog publications regarding FB DC technology. Authored and delivered presentations at Open Compute Project, Datacenter Dynamics, 7x24, Uptime Institute, and Silicon Valley Leadership Group conferences.

San Francisco, California, Us

Executed the design of mission critical HVAC mechanical systems for new or existing base building and tenant projects to meet clients’ needs and requests from schematic design through construction documents/completion of construction. Tasks included: Project managing tenant jobs, designing traditional and sustainable mechanical systems with minimal direction, performing load calculations, AutoCAD drafting, CFD modeling and analysis, preparing proposals for small projects, supervising designers and design engineers, surveying existing MEPFP systems,producing mechanical base building system/data center studies, performing equipment selections,applying a practical knowledge of building codes, reviewing submittals, editing specifications and produce punch lists/field observation reports.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Hired as Entry Level Engineer, promoted to Associate in 2 years. Executed the design of mission critical HVAC mechanical systems. Tasks included: Project managing tenant jobs, designing mechanical systems with minimal direction, supervising entry level engineers, performing load calculations, AutoCAD drafting, CFD modeling and analysis, surveying existing MEPFP systems, producing mechanical base building system/data center studies, performing equipment selections, applying a practical knowledge of building codes, reviewing submittals, and producing punch lists/field observation reports.