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Martin McCarthy is CEO of Uptime Institute & its Professional Services arm.
Kenneth G. Brill is Founder of the Institute, the Site Uptime Network, Uptime Institute Professional Services, and Upsite Technologies. Many uptime innovations, such as dual power topology, can be traced back to his original work.
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W. Pitt Turner IV, PE, is Executive Director of the Uptime Institute and a Senior Tier Certification Authority for Uptime Institute Professional Services. He 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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Julian Kudritzki is Vice President of Uptime Institute. He has managed the expansion of Tier Program into South
America, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. He
continues to ensure the integrity of Tier Certifications worldwide and work
with clients to broadcast their Tier awards. Julian has assisted in the
development of numerous Uptime Institute publications and educational programs,
including the Accredited Tier Designer curriculum.
Vince
Renaud, PE, is Managing Principal & Tier Certification Authority for Uptime Institute Professional Services. He 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.
Mr. Renaud co-authored numerous Tier Program publications.
Rick Schuknecht, is Vice President, Tier Standard: Operational Sustainability of Uptime Institute. He is a retired senior Naval Office who has focused on critical facility operations and management at the site and corporate levels for the past 14 years. He collaborated on the development of Tier Standard: Operational Sustainability, delivers its consulting and Certification complements, teaches the curriculum for Accredited Tier Specialist, and has written numerous data center operational guidelines for the Institute.
Terry Altom, PE, is a Senior Consultant & Tier Certification Authority for Uptime Institute Professional Services.
David Humphrey is a Senior Consultant for Uptime Institute Professional Services. He collaborated on the development of Tier Standard: Operational Sustainability.
His career in critical facilities spans 29 years and includes experience as program manager of facility infrastructure, project manager for the design/construct of several large data centers, and chief of maintenance for a major industrial complex.
He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Virginia Military Institute and Master of Science in Engineering Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
Chris Brown, PE, is a consultant for Uptime Institute Professional Services.
Tony Ulichnie is the Program Director for the Uptime Institute's Site
Uptime Network-North America. As Program Director of the member-driven
consortium, Mr. Ulichnie is responsible for planning, facilitation,
benchmarking, abnormal incident reporting and analysis, and overall
program success.
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Alasdair Meldrum is the Programme Director for the Uptime Institute's Site Uptime Network-Europe, Middle East
& Africa (EMEA). 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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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.
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 cooling systems specialist, expert diagnostician. He has performed
detailed research on how computer room cooling actually works and performs cooling systems reviews worldwide.
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Rob Menuet, PE, is responsible for mechanical systems technical
review of the Institute research papers. He, with Mr. Pitt Turner, is the
author of the Institute's Continous Cooling publication.
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.
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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