Otto Grajeda

Current

Co-Founder / Co-Director of Facilities at UnitedLayer

Past

Data Center Supervisor & Systems Admin at DigitalThink (now convergys.com)
Co-Founder at NextLayer, Inc.
V.P. Customer Service at Sirius

Admin/Clerk at John Gallin & Son

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Education

San Francisco State University, College of Business
Stanford University

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Industry

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Websites

UnitedLayer, LLC

Otto Grajeda’s Summary

Data Center / Facilities Construction & Operation, Customer Service & Call Center Management, Service Provisioning & Capacity Planning, etc.

Otto Grajeda’s Specialties:

Current: Data center real estate, general financial analysis, operations management, etc. Previous: Computer Science studies, general contracting, commercial construction, etc.

Otto Grajeda’s Experience

Co-Founder / Co-Director of Facilities

UnitedLayer

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

2001 — Present (8 years)

For past ~8 years, grew and managed datacenter inventory of ~33,000 sq ft., over ~600 cabinets, ~1,300kW of electrical and ~430 tons of cooling in 2 main cities (SF & LA).

Main responsibility is datacenter design and operation, from lease review thru construction to operation. Job functions include: capacity planning, facilitate building department permits & inspections, BMS design & operation, develop energy efficiencies for HVAC / cooling infrastructure, and the co-management of clients, staff, contractors, and vendors.
Data Center Supervisor & Systems Admin

DigitalThink (now convergys.com)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CVG; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for small team of professionals (facility staff, network and system admins) that managed ~$900K yearly budget in an HA data center environment. Highlight: saving the company ~$1.2M yearly in a major data center upgrade project.
Co-Founder

NextLayer, Inc.

(Internet industry)

October 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 1 month)
V.P. Customer Service

Sirius

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

August 1994 — August 1999 (5 years 1 month)

Key Manager @ Sirius responsible for providing great customer service to 30,000 customers. Largely responsible for helping company win SF Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay Award for "Best ISP for Oct. 1997"
Admin/Clerk

John Gallin & Son

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Construction industry)

March 1990 — March 1994 (4 years 1 month)

Admin/Clerk for general contractor; performed scheduling, bid coordination, and light construction work for 121 yr old construction company. (http://www.gallin.com/).

Otto Grajeda’s Education

San Francisco State University, College of Business

BS in Business Administration: Management , 2001 — 2007

Obtained degree while working FT. A highlight @ SFSU: pro bono work with help from CCSC and DoIT, where we established a wireless network in student union (spread over 115,000 sq. feet in 4 floors using 12 APs) that can be used by the student population of ~23,000 (part time work, 3.5 yrs to complete).

Activities and Societies:

Studied Computer Science (3 yrs) before switching to Business Management
Stanford University

N/A , Business Management - BUS 24 , 2002 — 2002

Stanford Continuing Studies - Spring 2002
(i.e. BUS 24 w/ Prof. Bush)