Data Center Operations Engineer

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details

Name: Jared Otieno Odhiambo

Languages: English

Current Address: *** ******* ***** ******,

Fredericksburg, VA 22406

Mobile Phone Number: +1-540-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

Email: *************@*****.***

Career Objective

Endeavour to excel in an organization with a dynamic, reputable work environment and be able to fully exploit my potential to the realization of its vision and mission. Education

● University of Nairobi

Duration: Oct, 1997 – Nov, 2002.

Course: BSc in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. Qualification: Second Class Honours.

● Kisumu Boys’ High School

Duration: Feb, 1992 – Nov, 1995.

Course: Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). Qualification: A-

● Magadi Primary School

Duration: Jan, 1984 – Nov, 1991.

Course: Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE). Work Experience

SAFARICOM LTD

Duration: June, 2021- Feb, 2023.

Position: Senior Data Center Operations Engineer

DUTIES

• Operate the data center programs to achieve 100% uptime and customer service level agreement (SLA) compliance.

• Manage the development, implementation and administration of operational processes, programs and systems. Establish MOPs and SOPs for work activities.

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• Assign personnel to various tasks, direct activities, and monitor progress to ensure objectives are achieved.

• Demonstrate effective team management and supervisory skills including planning, priority setting, conflict resolution, and managing multiple efforts concurrently.

• Review drawings and interact with consultants.

• Ensure construction activities do not negatively affect operational activities.

• Interact and assist business development team with items such as tours of potential clients, technical advice, and review of proposed contracts.

• Administer the data center energy conservation program.

• Conduct capacity planning for the data center. Oversee the data center master plan and modify as appropriate to adjust for changing circumstances.

• Manage the budget to meet or exceed goals and comply with applicable accounting requirements. Develop budget forecasts and estimations for planned power and cooling upgrades.

• Responsible for operating and maintaining electrical and mechanical equipment e.g. switchgear, ATSs, diesel generators, PDUs, UPSs, HVAC, Chillers, pumps, VFDs, and Building Automation Systems.

• Manage and oversee the repair and maintenance of equipment; assign work orders ensuring safety and production related orders are highest priority.

• Maintain, track and monitor daily site power and cooling logs for capacity and utilization trending.

• Record keeping, documentation, and reports monitoring labor and material usage.

• Obtain and review vendor bids for maintenance, support and repairs; determine appropriate vendor, ensure vendor adheres to quality, scheduling, budgetary guidelines, policies, procedures and standards.

• Develop and maintain work plans, estimates, and schedules for customer installation projects. SAFARICOM LTD

Duration: Sept, 2007- May 2021.

Position: Data Center Planning and Design Engineer DUTIES:

Designed, documented, supervised implementation of Power, Cooling and access control systems.

Evaluating and improving operating efficiencies and energy/resource conservation.

Managing and enforcing health and safety conditions during project implementation.

Preparation of weekly, monthly, quarterly reports for assigned projects.

Providing strategy and direction for construction projects.

Working with engineering departments to define project requirements for new data center hardware deployments.

Data center capacity and growth planning, including rack and server layout, Space planning, power dimensioning and cooling.

Developing proposals for annual budget consideration, developing project cost estimates and schedules.

Review of documents submitted by the design consultants to ensure compliance with the contracts to validate best practices in the industry.

Developing scope of work documents; managing consultants; evaluating design and construction recommendations.

Preparing specifications for material procurement; participating in procurement evaluations and material inspections.

Reviewing payment certificates for consultancy services and other managed vendors.

Participating in the recruitment and selection of staff.

Planning, monitoring and evaluating the performance of staff against set targets. MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS

Duration: April, 2005- Aug 2007.

Position: Assistant Electrical Engineer.

Duties: Designed, Documented and Managed Electrical Installation of Electrical equipment.

MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS

Duration: Jan, 2004 – Mar, 2005.

Position: Intern, Electrical Department.

Duties : Designed, Documented and Managed Electrical Installation of Electrical equipment.

Skills

● Ms Visio, AutoCAD

● Windows, Linux

● Switching and Routing Basics

● Data Center Design and Operations

Referees

1. Eng. Christopher Mumali,

Remax Consult LTD

P.O. Box 3550 - 00506 Nairobi

Phone: 072*-******

Email: ******@************.***

2. Eng. Leonard Angira

Kenya Power LTD

P.O. Box 100718 Nairobi.

Phone: 073*-***-***.

Email: *********@*****.***

3. Eng. Stephen Nyang’au,

P.O Box Nairobi.

Phone: 072*-***-***. Email: *******@*****.***

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