Experience

IDCA - International Data Center Authority

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member: Technical Standards Committee

  • Nov 2018 - Present

  IDCA Technical Standards Committee represents IDCA’s interest in matters pertaining to standards. Technical Standards Committee is composed of elite members from diverse yet premier data center-run organizations who are engaged with in-depth issues of data center industry at hand. Committee’s core mission is to provide remedy to the current data center industry gaps via developing the next-generation data center standards necessary to address and provide resolution to those gaps. All Technical Standards Committee’s effort is fundamentally rooted in the Application Ecosystem (AE)℠ and within the framework of the Infinity Paradigm®. In addition, the Committee further identifies potential new standards needed by the data center community and takes the necessary steps to initiate development of such needed standards with the appropriate organizations. Committee Members are also responsible to conduct unremitting interactions with the key industry stakeholders such as operators, providers, investors and end-users to ensure proper data center foundations, standardization and compliance are rooted within the diverse data center industry segments. Technical Standards Committee’s composition includes carefully elected technical data center experts from diverse industries, backgrounds and perspectives as follows: Show less



Bloomberg

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• EMEA Data Centre Manager

  • Aug 2010 - Present

  - Manage over 60 Data Centre spaces across 30+ countries for Bloomberg's WAN connectivity in the EMEA region - Budget planning for regions Data Centre infrastructure projects and day to day running of those sites. - Project manage regions data centre infrastructure move and upgrade projects. - Review regions existing and potential data centre's for suitability to serve Bloomberg. Lead team on physical site visits and consolidate all other stakeholder (Facilities, Security, Communications and Legal) reviews and make final recommendation on sites suitability. Currently in the process of moving or building sixteen Data Centre spaces over the next two years. - Review all potential contracts with new vendors and work with the legal team trough to a satisfactory conclusion. - Represent EMEA region within the global data centre infrastructure team. Providing process and procedure guidance using Data Centre best practice. Most recently revamped the Global change management process around Data Centre installation and maintenance. - Liaison with vendors to facilitate working relationships and awareness of emerging technologies. - Drive efficiencies within the Data Centre estate. - Regional rep for internal DCIM software, including design, direction and maintenance. - Consulted on Data Centre standards and tenders for cabling infrastructure on Bloomberg’s new European headquarters in London. Show less



BT

• Belgium
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • Jul 2006 - Aug 2010

  Operating in a position that requires Government security clearance in the deployment of hardware, network and operations/media services into the Data Centres. Part of a team responsible for four Data Centres with approximately 4500m2 of floor space and over 1000 servers. Involvement in the use of CFD modelling of the data halls to ascertain environmental issues and improve cooling efficiency. Planning and install of many types of computing hardware, see appendix. Singularly responsible for all planning of Data Centre related changes to Mainframe systems within the area. Requested to be a member of the Data Centre Technical Forum to bring my expertise into the solving of various issues around the Data Centre estate. Creation of database to catalogue the spare equipment stored on site. Operating in a call out rota to deal with incidents 24/7 across the Data Centres. Ensuring Data Centres meet agreed health & safety, security and industry standards (ISO27001). Currently developing a database to streamline the process of tracking deliveries and server spares onsite. Show less

• • Dec 2001 - Jul 2006

  Managing the day to day running of the computer halls in three data centres. This includes Installation, decommission and maintenance of computing hardware. First line support and analysis of all hardware faults, also covered out of hours via callout. Production of floor and system configuration plans for use by operations team and vendor engineers. Communicating with customers, vendors and clients on a day to day basis, also during problem resolution. Control of regular vendor relationship meetings to discuss plans, performance of equipment and maintenance. Ensuring power, environmental and physical security aspects of the buildings are up to a prescribed standard. Working under pressure accurately and meeting targets – working daily to service level agreements and project deadlines. Providing high level projects with technical expertise and lead for all BT data centres on internal/external world class projects (multiple mainframe CPU/Storage swap outs, NHS London LSP platform and Inland Revenue). Training for operations team and hardware analysts in computing hardware and installation processes. Show less

• • Jun 1995 - Dec 2001

  Creating floor and system hardware configuration plans. Planning and practising all aspects of hardware installation includes arranging power/environmental and data cabling for all new Hardware coming to site. Working under pressure accurately and meeting targets – working daily to service level agreements and project deadlines. Communicating with customers, vendors and clients on a day to day basis, also during problem resolution. Problem solving (First line of support) and analysis – tracking, monitoring and resolving of both hardware and software related problems, accompanied by a full analysis, also on call out of hours for such system problems. Decision-making - key involvement in departmental decision-making as well as acting as a contributory factor to the decision making of company issues. Show less