Seth Elder Email & Phone Number

Brunswick, Md, Us

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.• Created a repository of rack data to aid in updating Change Management, reducing the amount of time spent by EOTs in determining critical load in PODs.• Submitted Field Modification recommendations for Switchgear metering equipment, and troubleshot and repaired Square D PM870s.• Managed Vendors performing work, from preventative maintenance to in depth troubleshooting efforts to repair critical equipment.• Wrote Change Management for preventative, and corrective maintenance within both the mechanical and electric plants at Data Center Buildings.• Trained other Technicians on the operations of UPSs, VFDs, ATSs, Generators and CRAH unit equipment, providing both classroom training and hands on practical operation of equipment• Recorded powerpoint training presentations for various day to day administrative tasks within the Data Center for Regional Operations Technicians.• Commissioned Switchgear equipment and PLC autofail and programming equipment.• Replaced DIMMs (Dual Inline Memory Modules) and Hard Drives on Rack Servers.

• 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.• Terminated, tested and ran CAT5e cabling for communications of Environmental and monitoring equipment.

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, instrumentation and control circuits• 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. • Trained and managed division of eleven personnel in alignment and calibration maintenance for reactor plant detectors and monitoring equipment during a major overhaul period.• Managed Ship’s Quarterly Data Report of expenditures of fuel, radiological surveys, plant chemistry, and equipment failure reports.• Extensively trained on innovative, highly technical, electronic equipment made by Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Westinghouse.• Provided security for assets involving national security.

Bachelor'S Degree, Engineering/Industrial Management

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Navy/Marine Corps Jrotc