Seth Elder Email & Phone Number

Brunswick, MD

Oversee maintenance and project completion for Facebook's fleet of leased co-location data centers.

Maintaining uptime of Facebook Data Centers through operational excellence and best maintenance practices. Currently working overseeing construction of over a billion dollar Data Center, ensuring quality of deliverables from trade partners and assisting in preparations for assuming building operations.

Seattle, WA, US

• Oversaw the day to day operations of the mechanical and electric plants at multiple building locations.
• Troubleshot and repaired critical electric and mechanical plant and Building Automation and SCADA equipment.
• Wrote Technical MOPs for both operation and maintenance of electrical and mechanical plant equipment at multiple Data Center Locations.
• Scheduled Planned maintenances for Mechanical and Electrical Equipment.
• Proactively wrote equipment operating procedures to aid in facility PUE reduction and lower operational maintenance costs.
• Researched and proposed design and programming changes to reduce total water usage in the Facility.

• Performed installation of Waupaca and National Wheelovator Residential Elevators, including: pre-wire, motor wiring, controller wiring, door lock and call button wiring, rail and sling installation, and car installation.
• Performed Corrective maintenance on Waupaca, National Wheelovator, Concord, and other residential and commercial elevators.
• Installed Handicare, and Stannah residential stairlifts.
• Conducted corrective maintenance on Handicare and Stannah residential stairlifts.
• Inventoried and ordered parts and tools for jobs.
• Troubleshot and repaired various other stairlifts and elevators.

Columbia, Maryland, US

• Operated Air Handler units, Humidifiers and Air Compressors to maintain the temperatures and dew points of Data Center tenant suites within specified parameters.
• Operated Diesel generators and rotary ups systems to ensure reliable power and backup power to the data center was maintained to support customer loads.
• Performed preventative and corrective maintenance on data center plant equipment.
• Wrote MOP’s (Methods of Procedure) for various maintenances of data center plant equipment, building systems equipment and safety equipment.
• Wrote safety plans for the site and conducted training for management and employees to educate them on safety plans and ensure compliance with OSHA standards.
• Directed the safety program and conducted daily safety inspections of the data center and data center plant to maintain its safe and continuous operation.

Rueil Malmaison, Paris, FR

• Performed Assembly, Startup, Preventative Maintenance, Troubleshooting, Corrective Maintenance, and Battery Installations on APC and MGE UPS systems ranging from 16 kVA to 800 kVA.
• Supervised and trained Field Service Engineers in the assembly, maintenance, and operation of APC UPS systems.
• Coordinated delivery of large shipments of APC equipment to Data Centers in various rural and urban locations.
• Maintained extensive records of equipment logs, maintenance paperwork, and troubleshooting records for APC equipment.
• Documented and submitted highly ethical records of company related expenses, involving travel expenses, mileage, and maintenance supplies.
• Instructed numerous customers on theory of operation, power paths, operation and replacement of equipment within APC UPS systems.

Washington, DC, US

• Supervised maintenance of Reactor Plant monitoring equipment as well as auxiliary electronics.
• Operated the Nuclear Reactor Plant in both operational and shutdown conditions.
• Performed preventative and corrective maintenance on Reactor Plant monitoring equipment and auxiliary electronics equipment including: DC and AC circuits, solid state devices, digital logic systems, microprocessors.
• Generated more than 80 reactor plant maintenance paperwork packages and updated material history records.
• Performed component level troubleshooting and repair of faulty analog electronic circuits.
• Managed over $200,000 worth of parts and supplies for repairs to reactor plant equipment and coordinated purchasing and supply of parts for broken equipment.

Bachelor'S Degree, Engineering/Industrial Management

Religion

Navy/Marine Corps Jrotc