Robert Marsh

About Robert Marsh

SummaryOver 25years of IT and 18 years of data center operations experience in a variety of roles of increasing responsibility from data center analyst to regional IT Program Manager and presently senior most PM on the Quincy Metro of 324MW IT capacity. Focus has evolved from individual contributions to multiple concurrent v-teams as a representative for operations to engineering groups driving process and tooling improvements to increase efficiency, productivity, and reduction of costs.

Experience

1. Quincy Metro Area IT Program Manager

   Microsoft

   Dec 2019 — Present · Quincy, WA, US

   Manage all capacity planning and placement of deployment projects from a campus of 25MW to 324MW while achieving <3% stranded power.• Maintained close relationships with Capacity Management, Power Harvesting, Power Capping, Facility Planner, CIH and local MWH management in power harvesting efforts. Recovered 3.325MW and achieved $16.625M in construction cost avoidance.• Provided detailed feasibility analysis to support power harvesting in MWH01 and MWH02 DCs. Analyzed and developed deployment strategies for CO6 and CYS09 freight train power harvest DC designs to minimize stranded power and prevent inadvertent overloading of equipment.• Onboarded all DCs and colos into Facility Planner following detailed reviews of electrical one-line drawings and hierarchy data.• Management of 169 local and global security groups, silos and one SOX audited elevated access group. Metro area group memberships are the most streamlined globally.• Closely worked with developer team to bring about specifications and changes in Facility Planner to address operations required functionality• Key advisory role to metro area DCPMs in all areas related to IT deployments, electrical and network infrastructure. POC for escalations and more complex analysis of data in support of all IT operations in the metro.

Education

• Naval Nuclear Power School

  Physics, Chemistry, Thermodynamics

  1987 — 1987

• Navy Electronics Technician 'A' School

  Electronics

  1986 — 1987

• Navy S1W Prototype

  Reactor Operations and Control Systems

  1987 — 1988

Skills

• Sharepoint
• Data Center
• Process Improvement
• Vendor Management
• Cloud Computing
• Quality Assurance
• Business Process Improvement
• Computer Hardware
• Project Planning
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Itil
• IT Service Management
• Windows Server
• Hardware
• Hp
• Operating Systems
• Visio
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Agile Project Management
• Tcp/Ip
• Business Process
• Troubleshooting
• Program Management
• IT Operations
• Virtualization