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Uptime Institute Membership is the premiere community of end-user and owner operators of data center and IT digital infrastructure. Membership provides a forum for professionals responsible for the development, management, and operation of data center and IT infrastructure to interact and engage freely in events, roundtables, and discussions. Member companies are provided with proprietary access to Uptime Institute Intelligence research and reports, as well as the member supported Abnormal Incident Reporting (AIR) database.Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions on membership.

Overview:Provides thought leadership on Uptime Institute’s newest initiatives in data center and IT resource consumption management and reduction. In driving the goal of improved overall efficiency and sustainability, works with IT and data center operators to optimize and tune the entire IT infrastructure (raised-floor space, environmental controls, mechanical-electrical, IT hardware, Cloud, management, etc.), and therefore, reap much bigger overall savings.Focus:Shaping of a new IT efficiency program to meet the growing needs of Uptime Institute present and future clients by developing products that deal with data center and IT efficiency from a holistic and resource consumption perspective, rather than a metric-based and metric-driven approach. Strives to engage both IT and data center facilities teams to create a cultural change toward an overall efficient and sustainable process.

Responsible for managing and overseeing the data center operations of AOL’s six primary data centers. Data centers consist of over 210,000 sq. ft. of computer room space and responsible for over 77,000 total assets.

Responsible for managing and overseeing hardware systems and network installation services for AOL’s three primary data centers, and production hardware support. Included managing internal customer relations and requests for hardware and network moves, adds, and changes, and meeting service level agreements. Included managing the installation, configuration and provisioning of hardware, as well as the server and network equipment inventory and spare parts functions. Included managing internal and external hardware support, and any hardware vendor interaction, for all assets in the three primary data centers.

Responsible for managing and overseeing hardware and network installation services.Includes managing internal customer requests for hardware moves, adds, and changes, and tracking service levels.

Responsible for managing and overseeing daily activities that affect the operation of the facility and raised floor environment at AOL's Gainesville Technology Center in Gainesville, VA (total building 220,000 sq. ft. with 90,000 sq. ft. of rasied floor).Includes all back of the house mechanical and electrical infrastructure equipment activities, as well as allocating and installing equipment racks and power tails in the raised floor areas.

Responsible for New Jersey Information Services facilities operations. Includes managing facilities of over 800,000 sf. of office space, and one of the two corporate primary data centers located in Mahwah, NJ (150,000 sq. ft. data center with 50,000 sq. ft. of raised floor).Responsibilities include establishing and monitoring overall budgets and spending, and managing facility supervisors and technician workforce for these facilities.

Responsible for managing the day-to-day facility operations and projects of one of the two corporate primary data centers located in Mahwah, NJ. Includes expansion of the Mahwah Data Center, adding almost 30,000 sq.ft. of infrastructure space and 20,000 sq. ft. of data center raised floor space, bringing the facility to a Tier IV System + System infrastructure design. Project cost of $30 million.Data Center responsibilities included establishing budgets and monitoring costs, managing technician workforce, and overseeing facility projects.

Responsible for the ground up construction of the Mahwah Data Center and Office Building facility located in Mahwah, NJ. The $100 million project consisted of constructing 80,000 sq. ft. of data center and infrastructure space, 310,000 sq. ft. of Class A office space, and a 530,000 sq. ft. 4-level parking structure.

Responsible for field coordination and management of various construction aspects for the Gaviota Oil and Gas Plant Project located outside of Santa Barbara, CA. These responsibilities included $5.3 million of Site Preparation and Grading construction, contract administration of a $2.5 million Freeway Interchange and Overpass construction, and experience with mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation for a portion of the oil plant.

Responsible for preparing and coordinating civil design for the Gaviota Oil Plant Project, which included all earthwork, roadwork, foundations and drainage.Included preparing specifications, bid documents, and analysis in order to award the construction work.