Otto Grajeda

Otto Grajeda

Co-Founder at UnitedLayer

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Co-Founder / Co-Director of Facilities at UnitedLayer
Past
  • Admin/Clerk at John Gallin & Son
Education
  • San Francisco State University, College of Business
  • Stanford University
Connections
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Industry
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Websites

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)

    2001Present (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 2000October 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 1999October 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  • V.P. Customer Service

    Sirius

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

    August 1994August 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 1990March 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 , 20012007

    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 , 20022002

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


Additional Information

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Otto Grajeda’s Interests:

Managerial Accounting, Operations Management, Commercial Real Estate, Art/Design & Technology, Film & Entertainment (SOHP, TT, etc.)

Otto Grajeda’s Groups:

2006-2007:
SF Film Arts Foundation - Executive Producer member

  •    San Francisco State University, College of Business Alumni
  •    Colocation & Data Center Real Estate
  •    Data Centre Generals
  •    Data Center Pulse
  •    Critical Facilities
  •    The Uptime Institute, Inc.
  •    UnitedLayer

Otto Grajeda’s Honors:

Spring 2006:
SFSU - Dean’s List of the College of Business


Otto Grajeda’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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