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David Boston is the Program Director for the Uptime Institute's Site
Uptime Network-North America. As Program Director of the 85-member
consortium, Mr. Boston is responsible for planning, facilitation,
benchmarking, abnormal incident reporting and analysis, and overall
program success.
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Kenneth G. Brill is founder and Executive Director of the
Institute, the Site Uptime Network, ComputerSite Engineering, and
Upsite Technologies. Many uptime innovations, such as dual power
topology, can be traced back to his original work.
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Jonathan Koomey, Ph.D., is a Fellow of the Institute. Dr. Koomey is an energy policy expert and has supported the Department of Energy's Energy Star and other research and conservation programs through Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory and, most recently, has been a faculty member at Stanford University.
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Fred
Mapp has an extensive amount of experience in the area of information
technology systems, applications, infrastructure support, customer support and
consulting services developed over 40 years with the World Congress on
Information Technology, AMD, Honeywell, InfoSpan Corporation, American Express,
IBM and his own consulting company, Quality Service Solutions.
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Alasdair Meldrum is the Programme Director for the Uptime Institute's Site Uptime Network-Europe, Middle East
& Africa. In this role, he is responsible for developing the Network from
its founding membership of 8 companies into a multi-group organisation. Alasdair
is also responsible for planning, facilitation, benchmarking, abnormal incident
reporting and analysis, and overall programme success.
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Rob Menuet, PE, is responsible for mechanical systems technical
review of the Institute white papers. He, with Mr. Pitt Turner, is the
author of the Institute's uninterruptible cooling white paper.
Vince
Renaud, PE, has 24 years of experience ranging from planning, engineering,
design, and construction to start-up and operation. He received his Bachelor of
Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Air Force Academy and a Master of
Science in Engineering Management from Air Force Institute of Technology.
Richard Schlosser, PE, has more than 20 years of
experience in the application, design, and testing of electrical power
generation and distribution equipment. He has extensive experience in the
design and commissioning of power systems for computer and computer-related
facilities. Mr. Schlosser is the Director of Electrical Engineering for
TiePoint Engineering and brings to the Institute extensive experience in the
design and commissioning of power systems for IT and IT-related activities.
John H. (Hank) Seader, PE, with Mr. Pitt Turner, created the Institute
Tier Classification System. Mr. Seader performs audits, custom strategic-level consulting
engagements, and Site Uptime By Design projects. Mr. Seader has a MS degree in
Structural Engineering from Stanford University in California
and a BS degree in Civil Engineering from the US Air Force Academy in Colorado.
Lars Strong, PE, has
a BS degree in Civil Engineering from New Mexico State
University. His experience
in site infrastructure uptime and operations comes from numerous management and
consulting roles. He has been responsible for the development of engineering
plans, including those with project budgets exceeding $30 million.
Robert "Dr. Bob" F. Sullivan, Ph.D., had
a 32-year engineering career at IBM. He was part of the IBM team that first
identified zinc whiskers. Dr. Sullivan originated the Hot Aisle and Cold Aisle
concept in 1993. For the Institute, he is a staff scientist and has performed
detailed research on how computer room cooling actually works and teaches the
Institute’s seminar on High-Density Cooling.
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Bruce
Taylor is a 21-year executive of Information Technology media as a writer,
editor, publisher, conference producer, speaker, and consultant specializing in
IT publishing and conferencing. He is a founder of the technology, design and
futurist conference PopTech, Knowledge Management World and ImagingWorld. In
the early 1990s, Mr. Taylor served as publisher of International Data Group’s
(IDG) Canadian IT publishing franchise. For ITWorld.com, Taylor is a regular interview host for IT
thought-leaders.
William Pitt Turner, PE, has helped clients justify several billion dollars of site infrastructure investments since 1992. He teaches the Institute's seminar on justifying data center investment. He and Mr. Hank Seader invented what has become the industry standard Tier-Level site infrastructure rating system.
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