Sr. Director at eBay
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Sr. Director at eBay
- Chairman & Founder at Data Center Pulse
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- Senior Director at Sun Microsystems
- Director at Sun Microsystems
- Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems
- Technical Services Manager at Sun Microsystems
- Program Manager at Sun Microsystems
- Senior Test Engineer, Lead at Allegro Networks
- Network Architect at Sun Microsystems
- Network Administrator at Sun Microsystems
- Project Coordinator at Sun Microsystems
- Senior Electronic Technician at Sun Microsystems
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Dean Nelson’s Summary
In my professional career I have been driven by one question - What's next? I love to solve complex problems and take on challenging projects. I live, eat and breath technology and push myself to come up with new ways to not only apply them, but push them further. I also believe strongly in simplification. There are always different ways to look at challenges and innovate. Being a very visual person with a knack to see patterns, I can connect the dots allowing me to build strategies. I lead by example and surround myself with talented, passionate, dedicated people who are as motivated as I am to solving the next problem.
Over the last five years I have focused on solving the internal Data Center challenges for Sun Microsystems. My team simplified data center design by creating a modular, scalable approach called the POD architecture. It allows us to rapidly adapt to business changes and maintain brutal efficiencies in the datacenter. I've managed $250M in projects, including two of the largest and most complex datacenter consolidations in Sun's hisotry. These efforts compressed Sun's global datacenter portfolio by 41%, decreased the operating expenses in the bay area by 30%, and beating Sun's GHG reduction goals five years in advance. This success spurred 5,000+ customer tours of our datacenters in CA & CO, influenced DC design and strategy for many of Sun elite accounts, and sparked the new Data Center Efficiency service practice based on my teams innovations and best practices.
I feel that the range of positions I have held in my 20 year career have enabled me to be a well rounded executive who is able to see the opportunity, create the strategy and tell the story that resonates with customers and the industry. Sun is now positioned as the thought leader in Data Center Design.
GDS bridges the gap between Facilities and IT/Engineering to enable operational efficiencies that significantly contribute to Sun's economical and ecological performance.
Dean Nelson’s Specialties:
ECO/energy efficient Data Center Design, Branding and Marketing, Engineering Lab Physical and Technical Infrastructure, Network Architecture & Administration, Unix System Administration, Sun HW/SW, Quality Test Engineering, R&D, Operations
Dean Nelson’s Experience
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Sr. Director
eBay
(Public Company; eBay; Internet industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Responsible for eBay's Global Data Center Strategy, Architecture & Operations.
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Chairman & Founder
Data Center Pulse
(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Founded this exclusive non-profit organization of global Data Center owners and operators to influence the Data Center industry through end users. June/09 membership: 1022 users from 633 companies in 45 countries representing 95 industries. Members represent billions in annual purchases that drive the IT industry.
Responsible for driving corporate strategy, board meetings, marketing/awareness, revenue generation, and research & development.
Industry leadership:
The Chill Off - http://datacenterpulse.org/TheChillOff
Stack Framework - http://stack.datacenterpulse.org
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Senior Director
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 8 months)
Senior Director of Global Lab & Datacenter Design Services (GDS)
RESPONSIBILITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS
* Manage strategy, budget and standards for 870k ft2 of technical infrastructure space in 1,065 rooms globally. (compressed from 1.4M ft2)
* Successfully bridged the gap between Facilities & IT/Engineering for five years by building Data Center competency center inside of real estate.
* Completed the two largest and most complex datacenter consolidation projects in Sun's history (Santa Clara, CA & Broomfield, CO), on-time and within budget compressing the global portfolio by 41%. Total investment, $250M.
* Key contributor in establishing Sun as Data Center design though leaders in the industry.
* Orchestrated executive alignment on holistic datacenter approach for our own portfolio and its tie to our products and customers. Received Sun Innovation Award for work.
* Significantly influenced global designs and standards for some of Sun's largest customers including Ebay, AT&T, and JPMC. Achieved trusted advisor status for Data Center Design.
* Toured over 5,000 people through Santa Clara & Broomfield Data Centers in 19 month period. This includes more than 600 of Sun's top customers.
* Beat Sun's 20% US Green House Gas reduction goal five years in advance (2008). Achieved 5% of new 20% global GHG reduction in January, 2009 with completion of Colorado Consolidation.
New Sun Data Center Efficiency service practice was created mirroring the structure, architecture and best practices developed in GDS. GDS considered R&D arm of new service offering ensuring a closed loop of best practices and next generation solutions.
Author of two Sun Blueprints in the Energy Efficient Datacenter series: The Role of Modularity in Datacenter Design & Electrical Design. Free, downloadable documents for customers and industry.
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Director
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)
August 2006 — February 2007 (7 months)
Director of Global Lab & Datacenter Design Services (GDS) responsible for 1.3 million SF portfoilo of technical infrastructure space at Sun. Manage world-wide team responsible for scope, standards based design, and implementation of next generation scalable Engineering R&D lab and Data Center environments. $250M+ in active projects. Extensive background in system administration, hardware, software, networking, QA, automation and physical design. My goal is to help shape and direct the way corporations design & implement their technical infrastructure.
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Senior Staff Engineer
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 7 months)
Senior Member of Technical Infrastructure Program Office (TIPO). Define strategy and execute consolidation of multi-billion dollar World-Wide Engineering R&D labs physical and technical infrastructure.
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Technical Services Manager
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2004 — January 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Managed Engineering Lab Support Team, Release/Build Engineering, Automation Team, and Capital Budget for N1 Grid Systems Business Unit. 300+ development/test customers, 15k sf of engineering labs on four US campuses, $40M in assets.
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Program Manager
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2003 — January 2004 (1 year 1 month)
Led technical integration of Data Center and Engineering labs for $100M Terraspring and CenterRun acquisitions. Product analysis and feedback for N1 Grid Systems (N1GS). Member of Sun's Technical Infrastructure Program Office Strategy Team.
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Senior Test Engineer, Lead
Allegro Networks
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
May 2000 — January 2003 (2 years 9 months)
Built corporate and engineering infrastructure in US (CA, VA), & India to support development and test efforts. Built 23 person QA and Automation team. Led development of automation test system (ATS) used by Dev/QA Engineering teams. Infrastructure and automation tools shaved 8 months off development cycle of a carrier class hardware isolated multi-router.
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Network Architect
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1995 — May 2000 (5 years 5 months)
Led Technical Support team for Sun's largest engineering test lab. Created and implemented network infrastructure to test maximum configurations of all networking media types on all Sun product lines.
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Network Administrator
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1993 — January 1995 (2 years 1 month)
Supported technical infrastructure for Sun's largest engineering test lab.
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Project Coordinator
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1991 — January 1993 (2 years 1 month)
BSI Certified Lead Auditor and key player in ISO 9002 Certification for Sun Manufacturing. Instrumental in implementing a world-wide corrective action system.
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Senior Electronic Technician
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1989 — January 1991 (1 year 7 months)
Configured, tested and debugged SPARC based CPU boards and peripherals to component level in manufacturing lead production team (SWAT). Worked with engineering on real time line / process failures, diagnosed and determined immediate solutions.
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Dean Nelson’s Honors:
07/18/2008 - SUN INNOVATION AWARD, 2008
http://blogs.sun.com/geekism/entry/innovation_award
The Innovation Award is one of the highest recognitions you can receive at Sun. It is presented by our CEO, Jonathan Schwartz and CTO, Greg Papadopolous at Sun's annual leadership summit for all global VPs, CTOs and Distinguished Engineers
06/30/1992 - Patent #5126657
04/06/1998 - Nominated by Scott G. McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems for the 1998 Smithsonian Technology Award for Design and implementation of Child Quest International Website. Attended the Nominee induction ceremony in Washington, DC 4/06/1998.
5 Manufacturing Quality awards 1989-2004.
