Mike Jones Email & Phone Number

Franklin, Wisconsin, Us

Contact information - mike.jones@saluteinc.com or 651.214.1325

Franklin, Wisconsin, Us

Mike leads global operations and teams that develop new products and services with an emphasis on emerging technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation. His teams also focus on content creation, pricing, competitive intelligence, and optimizing service delivery in regional markets around the world.

Franklin, Wisconsin, Us

Mike leads the teams that oversee, plan, and direct financial and operational activities for Salute Mission Critical around the world.

Franklin, Wisconsin, Us

Mike has more than 30 years of experience leading successful operational groups within the data center industry. He champions key initiatives that ensure Salute Mission Critical services are aligned to market demand and works to continue Salute’s operational and professional excellence by leveraging his many years of leadership in the facility and technology operations space. Mike is recognized as results-driven problem solver with experience leading both enterprise and service provider organizations while increasing operational performance through the promotion and utilization of best practices, processes and operations excellence initiatives. He has expertise partnering with dozens of enterprise, colocation and hyperscale clients around the world.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Mike provides leadership for a group of accounts in Data Center Solutions (DCS), with emphasis on achieving business growth, financial performance, and client satisfaction. He leads a team of Alliance Directors and Area General Managers who execute the DCS strategy and operations within the Americas region. Mike collaborates with platform leaders in finance, people, commercial, project management, safety, and procurement when an integrated delivery model is proposed or in operation. He increases operational performance through the promotion and utilization of best practices, processes and operational excellence initiatives.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Mike lead teams that are responsible for all aspects of operating a global data center portfolio, including project and program management, facility and whitespace management, strategic and capital planning, and developing and maintaining positive relationships with clients to ensure high levels of satisfaction. In this role, Mike was responsible for creating, communicating and monitoring the vision, mission, strategy, objectives, business plan, budget, policies and operating plans for the management of global mission critical operations. Mike was also involved in business development, contract renewal, and client solution activities, where he collaborates with clients to understand their unique data center and IT needs to create bespoke solutions based on portfolio, tier requirements, and business objectives.

Washington Dc Metro, Va, Dc, Md, Us

In his role at David-Kenneth Group, Mike provided professional advice and services for analyzing, planning, improving, migrating and/or operating data centers for IT managers and business professionals. His expertise is understanding a client's business and technical objectives and requirements, positioning effective strategies and solutions, and managing successful delivery of their data center migration, consolidation or transformation project. The David-Kenneth Group’s singular focus is data center transformations. Our core competency is data center migrations. All of our people, processes and methodology are purposed to help organizations achieve the business benefits of a data center transformation.

Toronto, On, Ca

Managed complex corporate program and collaborated on developing strategy for consolidating >300 global data centers into 10 strategic data centers across 9 years. Developed and managed $10M annual program budget and schedule. Key contributor to business case, organization, governance, and transition models.- Reduced 3rd-party data center lease costs $35M annually by developing and executing program strategy that closed more than 125 data centers.- Drove program innovation, reducing infrastructure asset counts more than 35%.- Developed process, structure, governance and performance reporting to advance the program to a business-as-usual function.- Partnered with merger and acquisition leadership, investigating and developing due diligence, pre-close activities, and infrastructure integration for more than 50 acquisitions starting in 2012.

Toronto, On, Ca

Established and nurtured relationship with data center operations to align technology service delivery with business requirements. Managed service reviews, change management, incident escalations, security and process audits, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.- Reduced annual 3rd-party hosting costs over $3M per year by developing data center strategy to align 4,500 infrastructure assets in 13 global data centers with appropriate balance of hosting models and service level offerings.- Protected over $700M in annual revenue by leading development of disaster recovery plans for 29 strategic products.- Provided strategic direction, leading, developing, and implementing business continuity plans, including annual plan exercises, for over 5,000 staff in 75 offices around the world.

Toronto, On, Ca

Collaborated with technology leaders and real estate to develop data center strategy. Identified, researched, and evaluated data center strategy industry trends, including cost models, cloud computing, container-based infrastructures, tier levels, power densities and cooling efficiency analysis.- Led development of predictive planning model that incorporated business needs with strategic use of 6MW and 100K sq ft of data center capacity, pinpointing timing and size of capacity additions.- Identified and represented technology requirements on data center construction and migration projects, designing facility infrastructure for builds, expansions and upgrades, consolidations and migrations.

Toronto, On, Ca

Partnered with product development to build an application hosting business for law firms in North America.- Managed over 25 data center migration projects from pre-sales through implementation, generating over $2M in annual revenue.- Developed new technology solutions, cost models, reporting packages, and Service Level Agreements, increasing sales over 20% in the third year.ADDITIONAL ROLES 1988-2004Senior / Lead Systems Engineer and Project Manager Collaborated with real estate to ensure data center capacity upgrades and migrations met technology requirements and performance goals. - Led over 30 data center migrations from corporate offices and 3rd-party providers to leverage technology infrastructure in strategic data centers, reducing real estate costs over $5M per year.- Performed data center due diligence activities, including audit and analysis, for average of 30 acquisitions and divestitures per year, optimizing use of facility and network infrastructure resources.Experience in Data Center Operations, Large Systems Support, and Monitoring groups

Bachelor’S Degree, (Bs) Business Administration

Diploma, Computer Programming