Stewart Watkiss

Responsibility for nine data centres in Europe, India, Canada and Latin America. Based in the UK at the Redditch data centre where I liaise directly with the on-site workforce and third party contractors to ensure smooth running of the M&E, security and building management as well as a 24x7 tier-one and remote hands team. Also responsible for eight other data centres located around the world with the responsibility for creating and maintenance of interface agreements with third party vendors. I also facilitate the SAS 70 and PCI audits at several sites each year. I started the role at a critical time in the evolution in the business model which involved the creation of a dedicated organisation with responsibility for all the non-US internet data centres. This has provided opportunity to establish new processes and procedures and to redefine the relationship with the business partners, placing additional control and management under AT&T. Included the opening of four of the data centres and expansions within three of the existing sites. I took a leading role in developing additional controls for ensuring the resilience of the data centres including choke point analysis, efficient power management and power monitoring tools. This includes balancing of the PDUs and the loading of the respective UPS units. The role includes the project management of the install of the racks including power and data cabling installations from technical review to rack completion. This includes hot-cold aisle rack positioning and the need to accommodate high power density racks in the same environment as standard power racks.