CONTROLS ENGINEERING MANAGER
Accomplished Controls Engineering Manager with subject matter expertise in data center design, construction, commissioning, operations, and maintenance. Expert in data center control systems and recognized engineering leader that drives operational excellence with innovation and efficiency. Passion for identifying opportunities for improvement and developing solutions and processes that optimize operational deficiencies.
AREAS OF IMPACT
Process Improvement
Consistently drives process improvement by focusing on and identifying all stakeholders and understanding the role they play while developing a product or process that achieves goals to meet stakeholders’ needs.
Cross-Functional Team Leadership
Actively takes a leadership role within teams and group settings and inspires others by providing a vision promoting synergy, change, and success
Proven Manager
Manages teams of direct reports, vendors, military and construction crews over 15 years.
Drive Uptime to 99.999%
Drives and maintains high availability in mission critical settings by identifying single points of failure and eliminating risk through change management and ITIL best practices.
Develop Metrics
Identifies, creates, and applies key metrics that are needed to analyze the business allowing it to operate efficiently and stay competitive in the market.
Project Management
Plays various key roles in the project process ensuring success from start to finish allowing on-time delivery of a fully commissioned system.
Cost Cutting Initiatives
Provides analysis of operations identifying areas of opportunity and solutions that save cost from energy consumption, production, and labor.
Budgeting Planning
Actively participates in budget submissions and reviews for capital and operational expenditure in excess of 40 Million dollars.
Customer Centric
Operates with a customer focused mentality ensuring satisfaction through the entire “Customer Experience” addressing all of their needs.
Facilities Management
Participates in the management and training of facility and operations teams while promoting cohesion and unity.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
AMAZON WEB SERVICES
Seattle, WA July 2016 – Present
SENIOR CONTROLS ENGINEER
Provide controls and mechanical system expertise to support the design, construction, and operations of the world’s largest data center portfolio. Collaborate across teams evaluating and strengthening global processes that directly influence workflows, cost, and reliability. Identify system level deficiencies and create solutions that improve system operations and meet all stakeholder’s requirements.
• Manage and provide technical support to engineers, project managers, controls vendors, and commissioning agents to support controls engineering projects. This includes design, business case creation, budgeting, project planning, implementation, commissioning, and training.
• Track and evaluate data center operations with key metrics making recommendations to data center teams and management for improved operational integrity and efficiency.
• Assist engineering and build teams to develop solutions to maximize data center capacity as the pinch points show restraint.
• Directly manage capital and operational budget expenditure to support data center projects and improvements
• Assist project teams in the development of procedures and commissioning scripts and participate in the change management review and approval process
• Identify the need for, develop, and deploy control system standards and best practices to improve operations and consistency.
• Manage the Controls Change Advisory Board to assists sites, engineers, and project teams with development and review of project scope, project pricing and RFPs, and development and review of sequence of operations for mechanical and HVAC systems.
• Integrate data across automation systems for metrics, dashboards, and system integration and control.
PROJECT LEADERSHP
• Data Center Optimization
Evaluated data center mechanical and controls systems. Performed root cause analysis discovering design issues across global portfolio.
Created solutions for identified design issues. Implemented solutions to existing sites through sequence of operation revision changes and updates to mechanical systems.
Created process feedback loops across teams to identify future design issues and create solutions to be adopted into new design standards.
• Data Center Innovation
Collaborate across multiple teams to develop control strategies new to the data center controls industry.
Work with multiple teams to test and pilot solutions to evaluate effectiveness and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Data Center Projects
Manage global scale projects and contribute to data center construction and design.
Develop initiatives to streamline data center construction and operations simplifying install of control systems and integration of equipment.
CENTURYLINK
Boston, MA August 2011 – July 2016
DATA CENTER CONTROLS ENGINEERING MANAGER
Managed data center control systems across 58 CenturyLink Data Centers with over 2.6 million square feet of total raised floor space globally. Was accountable for driving operational excellence through engineering, planning, maintenance, commissioning and documentation of data center automation systems and associated mission critical systems. Developed and implement systems control strategies that improve the reliability and efficiency of the data centers.
DATA CENTER SENIOR ENGINEER
Resided on the Senior Engineering Team and was the technical reference for controls systems and integration of mechanical and electrical systems. Developed and drove standards and best practices to promote consistency and reliability in the design, operation, and maturity of Data Centers. Develop value based solutions for the design and improvement of critical Data Center support systems.
ORGANOGENESIS INC.
Canton, Massachusetts August 2009-August 2011
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