Work

Uptime Institute

 Accomplishments:

• Performed Design, Built Facility and Operational Certifications for Uptime’s Tier Standards

• Performed M&O Stamp of Approval Operational Assessments

• Accredited Tier Specialist classroom instructor

• Performed Data Center Due Diligence Assessments

• Performed Tier Gap Analysis

• Performed Standards Review

• Examined Open Compute Project standards for compatibility with UI standards

• Authored and presented various white papers, to include:

  • Top 14 Considerations for Addressing Data Center Facilities Management Risks

  • How to Develop a Data Center Training Program

  • Gotta Keep Em Separated:  Cold Aisle/Hot Aisle Containment Benefits and Challenges

• Created tools for clients struggling to accurately model their designs’ capacity component redundancies

• Created SPC capacity tracking tools for various clients

• Consistently offered value-add recommendations and information sharing for all clients, above and beyond work specified Scopes of Services contracts 

Lee Technologies / Schneider Electric

Accomplishments:

Microsoft Redmond Ridge 1 facility, 17MW critical load, 18kW/rack, 1.15 PUE:

• Solved a serious space pressure regulation issue using data analytics that informed a major revision in mechanical SOO controls programming

• Established a highly tuned, site specific maintenance program through custom formulated, asset based considerations informed by OEM, Engineers of Record and standards such as ASHRAE, etc.

• Implemented a sophisticated fuel testing program and site acceptance protocols

• Performed an energy experiment and subsequently authored a business case to improve energy efficiency and dramatically increase replacement interval for a very large AHU filter requirement

• Authored a business case that yielded acquisition of a high cap ex battery monitoring system

• Created a special access secure server and network for remote site access to the BMS

• Identified and implemented a power distribution solution to get stranded power from the main data halls into a core network equipment room

• Improved network room heat rejection via custom ductwork and containment modifications using supplemental exhaust blowers and dampers to allow air scavenging from main halls

• Implemented training program by securing many hours of video recorded presentations of engineers from the design build firms and created extensive site specific SME derived training materials derived from O&M documentation, BOD narrative and integrated system SOO narratives

• Optimized the controls/BMS alarming environment to eliminate erroneous or nuisance alarms

• Migrated significant preventive maintenance program scope to self-performance, to include a large VESDA installation

Vantage Santa Clara facility campus:

• Created and implemented a fully formalized maintenance program

• Populated CMMS with all major asset inventory and all recurring maintenance scheduling

• Performed an extensive survey to identify all hyper-critical alarms and implemented a system that filtered all such alarms to a 24/7 NOC for FO team notifications, then performed an extensive culling of an overdeveloped alarm notification environment (non-serious alarms, approach alarms, nuisance alarms, etc.) to solve a serious FO team operational readiness impairment

• Instituted a comprehensive procedure library of MOPs, EOPs, SOPs, etc.

• Scheduled and performed drills to rehearse all abnormal condition scenarios anticipated by the EOP library

• Training:  Instituted fully formulated training program, with SMEs drafting site specific training materials based on integrated systems presentations derived from SOO narratives, etc.

• Eliminated all energized work through adoption of industry best practices and corporate NFPA 70E mandates

• After a massive Central Chiller plant failure due to a poorly commissioned new controls migration, spearheaded a comprehensive upgrade and rigorous testing project for the system

Schneider Electric Special Projects:

• Created a comprehensive site operations manual for a large legacy Amazon data center

• Created a comprehensive Safety Program for an Uptime certified Tier III facility

• Perfected budget tracking techniques and lead CFMs in same for MS portfolio

• Performed a detailed post mortem and provided corrective action recommendations for a massive network failure at a production MS data center triggered by procedure deviation during regular STS maintenance

Morgan Stanley

Accomplishments:

• Designed, built and operated two 100W/ftsq production online trading data centers:  2N geo fault tolerant for Emergency Power sources, 2N or N+1 for power and mechanical

• Orchestrated several data center relocations and decommissioned one with reallocation of IT assets

• Planned and effected numerous facility upgrades:  Headered CRACs together with isodampers, instituted HA/CA, added split DX units for supplemental/emergency cooling, expanded cooling tower system, upgraded mechanical controls for fault tolerance, power migration to upsize utility transformer, phased in conditioned power capacity via an 8-to-make-7 power weave

• Tapped for various IT skunkworks:  Search engine bake-off, web layer migration to commodity IT gear

• Converted stranded office space into mini-dc lab environment for QA/QC coding group

• Designed and built a failsafe EPO maintenance panel system days before a major DC recommissioning effort