Introduce Yourself

This is a discussion wherein everyone introduces themselves to tell a little about themselves. Its a great way to see if there is any common interests and and maybe it will generate business opportunities!

It would be really be great to hear your story, the way you have come up in business, partnerships you are looking for, potentials you would want to exploit, dreams you want to achieve, ambitions for which you would keep striving, your days of struggle and of course the moments of success.

Over to you now. The group members would be glad to read about you.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Teed on October 27, 2009 at 16:46
Hello, My name is Brian Teed, my company is called On Call Power Services. We are a full service company dedicated to providing quality service and expertise in the critical power back-up industry. We are also always looking to purchase old equipment and batteries. We will do anything needed to help so give me a call 804-405-8066. We are located in Richmond, Va. but are a nationwide company. Visit us at www.ocps247.com

Thank you. We also pay commission for business opportunities.
Permalink Reply by Alan Smith on October 27, 2009 at 17:34
Hi, I'm Alan, Scots by birth and a black belt in the "immobile arts" - the reason a keg resides where a sixpack should be!

I've been technically minded for years, walking the thin line between "geek" & "cool" - personally, I like geek, geek is cool.

Geeks will inherit the earth right??

I've worked in several different industries over the years, mostly in a sales capacity, and my personal style of "selling" is to consult and remove barriers to people buying. I hate being sold and am pretty sure I'm not alone.

As someone in the sales profession I am all too aware that we are not a popular bunch, ranking somewhere below the tax man and traffic wardens in terms of popularity. I'm trying to change that, one very cold call at a time.

The company I work for has the most unique environment I have ever encountered, its a fun place to work and as much as I could describe the environment here, it really has to be seen to be believed, its a great place to be and not many can say they enjoy coming to work each day.

I'm actually pretty selective in the people I do business with ( honestly, I am !! ) I like to connect to people and will shy away from transactional relationships, transactions don't bring any value. If you are open to dialogue and willing to discuss what technology will do FOR your company then I can help.

My current customers range in background, but all share a common problem, increased networking demands and decreasing financial and human resources.

The only part of your network I can't help in is your desktop PC, everything else is fair game.

Core, distribution and edge switching, servers, storage, telephony, data centre cabling and cable management.

I'll help in anyway I can, even if it means saying "I dont think I'm your best bet for this project".
After years in sales I've heard enough "no"s to not be afraid of it.

=)
Permalink Reply by Chuck Cohen on November 5, 2009 at 2:38
Hello, my name is Chuck, and I am also a workaholic (not by choice).

I am a former Data Center Manager and Systems Specialist who is still actively researching and working with the industry, specializing in ways to upgrade and provide increased uptime & reliability for facilities. With a large number of data centers built around the turn of the 21st century, these facilities are steadily increasing in age, going on 7 years or more. A good number of them, as impressive as they are, either incorporate inefficient or legacy systems, have infrastructure improperly matched (over/under-rated) to their equipment loads, or outright fail to provide proper ongoing maintenance for some or all of it. This creates a field wide open to engineers and data center managers who are specifically trained to deal with these issues.

I was formerly Data Center Operations Manager and Engineer for both NetRail Inc. (acquired by Cogent Communications) and Interland Inc. (acquired by Peer 1). At this time, I am working towards finishing up studies & testing in order to obtain certification with NICET (in fire systems) and associate certification in Network Critical Physical Infrastructure (NCPI) with Data Center University (APC/Schneider Electric).

I currently work as Operations Manager for GSD Services in Atlanta, overseeing the design, installation and maintenance of customized burglary, fire, access control, surveillance/CCTV, and infrastructure monitoring systems, as well as temporary oversight of Central Station operation & administration.

You can check out my profile on LinkedIn at:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckcohen

** GSD Services Inc. is a full-service unrestricted low voltage contractor located on Atlanta's perimeter providing implementation of various security-related projects for 30+ years. Clientel includes companies such as Galileo, CEIA, Piedmont Medical Group, Forsyth County Schools, B.H. Properties, Sheltering Arms day care centers, and the Ed Voyles family of car dealerships.

** Security Communications Services Inc. (SCS) is the company's Central Station, providing 24x7 monitoring of signals and video received from systems all over the Southeastern United States. SCS operates their main center in Atlanta GA and their secondary (redundant) centers in Woodstock GA and Omaha NE. Both UL compliant centers feature SurGard, Osborne-Hoffman, & AlarmNet receivers, 15M connectivity, multiple DID/DOD lines, UPS & generators for backup power, and digital 24-channel telephone voice recording.

My pet peeve with most facilities (especially smaller data centers that are internally owned) is that they have a habit of throwing physical and virtual security policies out the window. I kid you not. It can be very easy to breach corporate or facility security systems & protocols in many cases I have seen. For an extreme scenario of this, please follow the link below to read the security paper which shows how to exploit the vulnerabilities in physical security that terrorists (or anyone) could use to breach and attack colocation facilities.

http://www.zdziarski.com/papers/colo.html
Permalink Reply by Shawn Sullivan on November 10, 2009 at 1:41
I am currently working for Sabey Data Centers, the largest data center owner/operator in the Pacific NW with more than 1,500,000 square feet of data center space. We design, build and manage data centers for companies of all sizes. While we are currently located in Washington state, we are able to willing to build data centers anywhere. We have established a data center construction dream team that have a data center built in less than 12 months. We can offer a budget and have never gone over.

In my spare time I am getting my Masters Degree from the University of Washington. I have been in corporate communications/marketing for the last eight years, and until a few months ago, I also worked as the Coordinator of Technical Operations for Seattle Science Foundation, a local non-profit dedicated to educating medical professionals through the use of high-definition videography. I worked with Internet2, Pacific Northwest Giga Pop and several medical and education institutions across the country. I am now dedicating my time trying to find companies in need of more than 5,000 square feet of data center space. We do have the cheapest rates in the nation, at $0.02 per kilowatt hour!!
Permalink Reply by Roger Smith on December 3, 2009 at 11:13
Hi, I'm Roger Smith. I'm working with one of our sister companies (www.maintech.com) to expand their business in the UK. They provide vendor neutral server support services for enterprise data centres. I'd be more than happy to talk to anyone who is looking to review their maintenance. We are happy to support products for up to five years after their declared "end of service" life.

Best Regards

Roger
Permalink Reply by Jay Brummett on December 9, 2009 at 18:40
Hello All,

My name is Jay Brummett and I am a Data Center Program Manager for a Energy Efficiency Solutions company. Our company is contracted by different utilities nationwide to facilitate their Data Center Energy Efficiency Rebate or Incentive Programs. Basically if you have a Data center Project that will produce a reduction in its baselined energy consumption, the utilities give you money for it. Our firm is paid by the utilities to mange these programs for them and there is no cost to the customer. Currently we operate programs in Texas, California and New York. Feel free to contact me for any questions you may have.

Jay Brummett
214-274-8092
Permalink Reply by arthur larsen on January 27, 2010 at 0:57
hello,
I have a modular data center economizer that I would like feedback on.
check out my photos
Permalink Reply by Michiel van Blommestein on February 1, 2010 at 9:00
Hello all. My name is Michiel, and as you might have read, I am the new editor for this site. The guys behind all this contacted DatacenterWorks, a Dutch magazine that (as the title gives away) focuses entirely on DC technology and infrastructure. That's how I got involved.

I'll be posting blogs mostly, trying to find stuff that could be interesting for everyone here. Ofcourse, any suggestion is welcome! Also, feel free to correct me if I make a silly mistake ;-).

Looking forward to hearing from everyone here. I'll post my first blog not long from now.

Cheers
Permalink Reply by Clark J. Hamilton II on February 6, 2010 at 3:42
Just got the Certified Data Center Design Cert.- going for the next round this year towards the CDCDP. Was told this cert. started out as a Euro offering and is just getting going in the US. Any other CDCD's on this site? My class was relatively small.
Permalink Reply by Sergio Rodrigo Larrazabal V.O. on November 24, 2010 at 17:24
Hello All:

Im Sergio Rodrigo Larrazabal Velez Ocampo, from La Paz - Bolivia, I´m a electronics engineer and I have a master degree in IT Security.

I started working in a very different field, which is Industrial automation in a company who works with Allen Bradley, then I jumped to the telecommunications field, then to energy, and cooling systems, and finally to Data Center Design

The past three years I have been working in ICTEC S.R.L. which is a company specialized in Data Center design and implementation, we represent EMERSON NETWORK POWER in Bolivia and other brands too, such as SafeNet, Entrust, SDMO, Extreme Networks, etc.

I started as an engineer for the telecommunications division, then i was promoted to Engineering and Projects Manager, and then to Operations Manager.

I hope we can all share some experiencies, stories about Data Center in this network.

Cheers

Sergio Larrazabal
Permalink Reply by Henk van den Berg on January 13, 2011 at 19:50

Hello, my name is Henk van den Berg and coming from the Netherlands.

I have a international work expirence in datacenters, computerrooms and many data and telecommunications installations.

From Netherlands, France, Belgium, UK, USA, Kuwait, etc. I started my carreer from 1977. And have worked by multinational companies and government in the Netherlands

Because of all the expierence I have my specialized in Risk Mangement. So I started my own Consultancy business ; Meiberg Consultancy.

I help organisations to locate the risks and make a plan to come in control and reduce the downtime and costs. I use the Business Continuity Management profiel.

Also do design or redesign Datacenters and computerrooms, and office cabling.

Do many projects such as migrations, movements of datacenters, computerrooms.

It is there were my passion is!

 

Permalink Reply by Greg Schulz on January 6, 2012 at 2:47

Hello, I am Greg Schulz, found of the independent IT advisory and consultancy firm Server and StorageIO (StorageIO).

I have been in the industry for 30 years starting out as an operator and then programmer while going to school, moving into systems development, then systems management, architecture, disaster recovery planning, performance and capacity planning and strategy before moving to the vendor world. Also spent time with various vendors and then later with an analyst firm before launching StorageIO in 2006.

 

Im also the author of the books "Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking" (CRC Press), "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (CRC Press) and "Resilient Storage Networks: Designing Flexible Scalable Data Infrastructures" (Elseiver). In addition to white papers, articles, resecorch reports and other content, I also do many webinars, pod casts, videos, and in person speaking, keynote and seminar events. Check out my blog at http://storageioblog.com as well as Im on twitter @storageio

 

Learn more at http://storageio.com

 

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