Technical Advisory Board

Mission Critical's Advisory Board comprises industry figures who contribute expertise, guidance, and knowledge to the magazine's editorial staff. Drawn from industry, these individuals ensure that the publication meets the needs of its readership by writing articles, helping develop webinars, critiquing the content of articles within each issue, or advancing story ideas or topics for future coverage.

Robert Aldrich
Rosendin Electric

Robert Aldrich is the principal solutions architect and energy efficiency expert at Cisco. He works with Cisco customers, Cisco IT and Labs, Cisco Central Development Office product developers, and Workplace Resources divisions. Prior to joining Cisco in 2005, he designed power and cooling systems for enterprise-class data centers. He has held positions in both facilities and IT operations including product management, systems engineering, technical marketing, and field services.

Christian Belady
Principal Power/Cooling Architect
Microsoft

One of the most respected innovators in the electronics cooling and packaging industry, Christian recently moved to Microsoft as the principal power and cooling architect for its online business. Prior to this move Christian was a strategist for HP where his responsibilities included driving the technology direction in HP's server products as well as driving industry initiatives that benefit the customer environment. With over 60 patents, Christian is an ASME Fellow, an IMAPS Fellow, and a founding member of ASHRAE's TC9.9.

Dennis D. Cronin, D.MCO
CEO-Founder
Resilient Solutions, LLC

Dr. Cronin is CEO of Resilient Solutions, LLC a Mission Critical Consultancy firm founded in 2003 focused on data center management, operations, marketing, forensics, and research. Currently, his efforts are spotlighting data center efficiency research, application of 400V direct current power distribution, integration of renewable resources, and development of IoT data center applications Previously, Dr. Cronin was COO at Steel ORCA and Mission Critical Principal at Gilbane Building Company. For over 30 years, Dr. Cronin has been a leader in real estate, facilities, and the operational aspects of high technology operations. The greater part of his career has been with large fortune 500 organizations such as Macy's, Shearson Lehman Brothers, Smith Barney, and UBS. He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and a doctorate in mission critical operations.

Chris Crosby
CEO/founder
Compass Datacenter

Chris Crosby is the CEO and founder of Compass Datacenters. Chris has over 20 years of technology experience and over 10 years of real estate and investment experience.

Peter M. Curtis
President and CEO
Power Management Concepts, LLC

Peter Curtis is the founder of Power Management Concepts, LLC an Engineering, Research and Technology Company formed in 1998. Mr. Curtis has been at the forefront of developing new technology innovations for products such as M.C. Access, GreenBUS, and SmartWALK along with the development of education content/LMS all to reduce human error and improve energy security for the Digital Society.

Mr. Curtis has thirty years of experience working in the mission critical engineering industry having worked for Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, Securities Industry Automation Company (SIAC), the Suffolk County Water Authority, and Sperry Corporation. Mr. Curtis has been responsible for critical systems design, construction, operations, energy, and budgets for multi-megawatt infrastructures; and oversaw a major railroad electrification project.

Since 1994, Mr. Curtis has been an associate professor at New York Institute of Technology, and is on the Board of Directors of NYIT Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC) Advisory Board, focusing on hands on research and product execution for the Smart Grid and Cyber Security Industries. Additionally, Mr. Curtis sits on the NYIT President’s Advisory Board and DCD Board of Directors as an observer. He also teaches at Marist College.

The author of two books on mission critical facilities operations, Curtis is a frequent speaker at IFMA, AFE, and DCD. He also serves as educational advisor for AFE and has provided briefings to the White House on critical infrastructure protection. He graduated New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) with a B.S. in Electro-Mechanical Computer Technology and received his M.S. in Energy Management in 1994.

Kevin Dickens
Deputy Director of Mechanical Engineering
Jacobs' Architecture and Engineering Practice

Kevin is a graduate of the University of Missouri and the Deputy Director of Mechanical Engineering for Jacobs'Architecture and Engineering Practice in St. Louis. Kevin is registered in seven states and a LEED Accredited Professional, and proud to serve as a member of the Advisory Board for Engineered Systems magazine. Over the last 20 years, Mr. Dickens has been responsible for the mechanical design for a range of mission critical facilities in both the private and public sector including military command and control, national intelligence and commercial data centers, with a focus on HVAC systems.

Peter Funk Jr.
Funk and Zeifer, LLP

Peter Funk and his partner recently founded Funk and Zeifer LLP. Peter practices in the area of energy law with a focus on energy generation projects; including on-site cogeneration, energy conservation and energy management installations, demand-side management projects such as advanced metering, renewable resource an 'green' generation, and energy-related financing matters. Peter has extensive experience in the area of utility law and has advised gas and electric utility companies and served as outside general counsel for a utility which co-owned a nuclear plant and has provided legal services to other utilities with interests in nuclear plants. He has advised many clients regarding regulatory compliance issues and also served as outside general counsel to an energy services company.

Scott Good
Sr. Consultant
Uptime Institute

Scott Good a Sr. Consultant at the Uptime Institute an unbiased, third-party data center research, education, and consulting organization focused on improving data center performance and efficiency through collaboration and innovation. The Uptime Institute serves all shareholders of the data center industry, including enterprise and third-party operation, manufacturers, providers, and engineers. This collaborative approach, completed with the Uptime Institute's capability to recognize trends on a global basis and to interface directly with owners, results in solutions and innovations freed from regional constraints for the benefit of the worldwide data center industry.

Peter Gross
Bloom Energy

Peter Gross recently joined Bloom Energy after a lengthy career at EYP and then HP Mission Critical Facilities. After joining Einhorn, Yaffee, Prescott, Architecture and Engineering Inc. in 1997, he founded and was actively involved in the development and the rapid growth of the Mission Critical Engineering practice. His duties included strategic planning, technical oversight and business development. His focus centered on understanding the major trends shaping this industry and securing HP's thought leadership position. He is considered a leading thinker and practitioner of mission critical information and infrastructure design. Peter has published numerous technical papers and is a frequent speaker on the subjects of high-performance critical facilities, ultra-reliable design and power quality. He has more than 20 years experience in the engineering and design of data centers, trading floors, Command and Control Centers, telecommunication and broadcasting facilities.

Cyrus J. Izzo
Co-president
Syska Hennessy Group

Under Cyrus' leadership, the Critical Facilities Team focuses solely on designing, building and commissioning critical and hypercritical facilities for 24/7 data-driven enterprises.Clients include financial services, manufacturing, utilities, state and federal government agencies, health care providers, telecommunication, pharmaceutical, and biotech. He has over 20 years of management level project and client experience, including extensive involvement in all aspects of major building systems projects, incorporating a comprehensive approach blending facilities management, MEP design, IT, security, and construction to take uptime and reliability to a new level.

Rudy Bergthold, P.E.
Cupertino Electric, Inc

Rudy Bergthold, P.E., is senior vice president and CTO at Cupertino Electric, Inc., San Francisco. Cupertino Electric, Inc. (CEI) is an electrical engineering and construction company that uncovers challenges and delivers cutting-edge solutions for commercial, renewable, utility, modular, and data center customers experiencing intense change. The company builds the infrastructure that enables its customers to realize their vision.

Jeff Klaus
Intel Corp.

As general manager of Intel® Data Center Management Solutions, Jeff Klaus leads a global team that designs, builds, sells and supports data center software products through an extensive distribution network. Since joining Intel in 2000, Klaus built and maintains the largest global distribution ecosystem of middleware solutions through server hardware OEMs, software infrastructure management providers and cloud service providers.

As a leader in the data center infrastructure industry, his group currently sells Intel® Virtual Gateway access management and Intel® Data Center Manager (DCM), the only software that provides real-time, server-level telemetry data and power management across a wide range of data center servers and IT devices.

An active member within the software defined solutions space, Klaus serves on the Board of Directors for the Green IT Council and has presented multiple keynotes at leading industry conferences, including Gartner Data Center, AFCOM's Data Center World, the Green IT Symposium, and the Green Gov Conference. As a thought leader within the DCIM community Klaus regularly contributes articles on key data center topics and trends in Forbes, DataCenter Dynamics, Mission Critical, Data Center Post, IT Business Edge, Data Center Knowledge, Information Management and Data Centre Management.

Klaus earned his BS in Finance at Boston College and his MBA in Marketing at Boston University.

Bruce Myatt, PE
Founder
Critical Facilities Roundtable
EVP and CTO of The Data Centers

Bruce Myatt is a registered Mechanical Engineer, founder of the Critical Facilities Roundtable, and was previously director of Mission Critical Facilities at M+W Group. Previously he was director of Projects at KlingStubbins Mission Critical. He has over 25 years of engineering consulting experience working with facilities such as data centers, clean rooms, semiconductor fabs, nuclear power plants, and DOE's nuclear weapons production facilities. He has recently led work for LBNL and PG&E related to data center energy efficiency benchmarking, technology demonstration, design assist, and retro-commissioning programs.

Bruce has actively pioneered server cooling solutions that isolate air flow in order to prevent air 'recirculation' and 'short-circuiting' in data center environments. Bruce is a Founder of San Francisco's Critical Facilities Round Table (CFRT); Co-Chairman of the CFRT High Density Data Center Committee; Technical Columnist and Advisory Board member at Mission Critical Magazine; member of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Data Center Energy Efficiency Committee; Advisory Board Member at 6Connect; Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sigma Phi Delta International Social-Professional Engineering Fraternity; and, recently, a member of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of the Bay Area.

Keith Lane, P.E.
Lane Coburn & Associates, LLC

Keith Lane has over 20 years of experience in the design and implementation of mission-critical facilities. He is a professional electrical engineer licensed in thirteen states, a licensed general electrical administrator, a registered communications distribution designer, a network transport system specialist, a registered telecommunications project manager, a lighting certified qualified professional, and a LEED-accredited professional. Keith is the president/CEO and chief engineer of Lane Coburn & Associates.

Dean Nelson
Chairman & Founder of Infrastructure Masons

Dean founded the non-profit industry group to bring infrastructure professionals together to collaborate, debate, and share information.

An Infrastructure Mason is a person entrusted with building and managing the physical and logical structures of the Digital Age. They are dedicated to the advancement of the Industry, development of their fellow masons, and empowering business and personal use of the infrastructure to better the economy, the environment, and society.

Infrastructure Masons has assembled a world class Advisory Council to help guide the organization that includes Joe Kava VP of Data Centers at Google, Christian Belady, GM of Data Center Services at Microsoft, Tom Furlong, VP of Infrastructure Data Centers, Eddie Schutter Head of Global Foundation Services at Ebay, Jim Smith former CTO from Digital Realty Trust, and Rob Roy CEO & Founder of Switch. These leaders have personally developed more than $1B of technical infrastructure each.

Julius Neudorfer
CTO and founder of North American Access Technologies

Julius is the CTO and founder of North American Access Technologies, Inc. (NAAT). based in Westchester NY, and has been designing and implementing Data Center Infrastructure and related technology projects for over 20 years. NAAT’s clients include Fortune 500 firms and government agencies.

Julius is a member of ASHRAE, BICSI, IEEE and The Green Grid, as well as a Certified Data Center Design Professional “CDCDP” designer and instructor. He is also an instructor for the US Department of Energy’s Data Center Energy Practitioner “DCEP” program.

Julius has written numerous articles, whitepapers and webinars for various IT and Data Center publications on data center power, cooling and efficiency, and writes his “Hot Aisle Insight’ blog here at Mission Critical Magazine

Glen Neville
Director of Engineering
Deutsche Bank

Glen is a licensed Electrical Engineer in New York working as the and has over 19 years of experience in the practice of engineering design, field-testing and commissioning of critical systems. Mr. Neville is a LEED®2.1 Accredited Professional and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University. His commissioning and troubleshooting experience include extensive work on multi-module UPS systems, static switches, generator paralleling systems, grounding systems, medium voltage switchgear, protective relaying systems, and low voltage switchgear installations. Mr. Neville has authored numerous short-circuit&coordination studies for critical system installations and also has significant experience in the measurement, evaluation, shielding, simulation, and analysis of low frequency magnetic fields and their affects on operating facilities. Mr. Neville is an active member of the Building Commissioning Association, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, New York City Electrical Code Committee, 7x24 Exchange, and the IEEE Industry Applications Society.

Thomas E. Reed, PE
Senior Director of Mission Critical Services
KlingStubbins

With more than 25 years of experience on technically complex mission-critical facilities, Thomas E. Reed, PE, KlingStubbins' Senior Director of Mission Critical Services, has led the successful development and implementation of some of the United States' most hardened and reliable technology-driven data centers. He has lectured at the university level on the topics of technology applications in facilities and has been published on the commissioning and reliable operation of mission-critical facilities.

Bill Mazzetti
Rosendin Electric

Bill is currently senior vice president and the chief engineer at Rosendin Electric, one of the nation’s leading electrical contractors and design/ build firms. He oversees over 60 employees in the firm’s engineering, modeling, and design process operations.

David Schirmacher
President of 7x24 Exchange International

David Schirmacher is president of 7x24 Exchange International. He previously served as senior vice president of technical operations for Digital Realty Trust as well as chief strategy officer for FieldView Solutions. Prior to joining Fieldview Solutions, he was globally responsible for strategy, operations and risk management relating to the Goldman Sachs' critical systems infrastructure.

Terry L. Rodgers, CPE, CPMP
Primary Integration Solutions, Inc.

Terry L. Rodgers, CPE, CPMP is the vice president of commissioning services at Primary Integration Solutions in Charlotte, NC. He has over 35 years of experience in Critical Facilities operations and management with an emphasis on commissioning and continuous operations.Terry is an active member of ASHRAE SPC-90.4, ASHRAE TC9.9, ASHRAE SPC-127, and ASHRAE GPC 1.2. Terry has co-authored various books, white papers, and presentations on critical facilities, commissioning, and facilities management, is a regular columnist in Mission Critical Magazine, and helped develop and teach data center related training classes for the Department of Energy and private enterprises. Terry has performed over 50 site reliability assessments in 20 countries and 5 continents over the last several years. Prior to working at Primary Integration, Terry held a senior reactor operator certification with General Electric’s Nuclear Energy division, worked in aerospace with Lockheed Martin, worked as facilities manager and compliance officer at Fannie Mae, and managed the southeast region Facilities Management and Commissioning Group for Syska Hennessy.

Paul E. Schlattman
ESD Consulting

Paul Schlattman is a senior vice president at ESD, responsible for leading the firm’s consulting practice in the areas of data center development, total cost of ownership (TCO), mergers and acquisitions (infrastructure), and technology migration services. Over his career, Paul has consulted within the data center sector in Europe, Pacific Rim, North America, and South America. Additionally, he is an internationally renowned speaker and has authored numerous articles published in industry publications.

Henry Wong
Intel Corp.

Henry is senior staff technologist focused on energy efficient performance technologies at Intel. The technologies cover the full vertical computing hardware stack from silicon and component level power and thermal technologies to system power distribution to power and thermal management architectures. Henry is responsible for developing and gaining industry and internal technology roadmaps on energy efficient performance technologies. The technologist drives both the internal product development process, leading technical teams integrating energy efficient performance technologies, as well as the external technology developments for energy efficient performance, such as metrics, technology protocols, and environmental standards.

On Demand This webinar will present the mechanical and electrical options for on-site energy storage for your mission critical environment. These options include grid-level battery storage, thermal energy storage, zero-net energy, solar, and critical power stored energy.

On Demand An edge data facility is still a data center. One still and must consider design, construction, and operational habits that result in high levels of system availability, maintainability, and resiliency. The disaggregation that edge poses will distribute compute and storage assets, and the challenge will be placing edge assets into sufficiently robust facilities or enclosures outside of traditional data centers where those local solutions can equally sustain those IT operations and systems.

Mission Critical Magazine

2019 January/February

Mission Critical Magazine’s 2019 January/February issue takes a deep dive into mission critical facility design as well as the challenges of managing capacity, and another installment of our panel discussion on the state of the data center industry with three industry thought leaders.

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