THE FUTURE OF DATA CENTER UPS POWER AT SCALE

Robert Thorogood Guest Speaker, Executive Director, HDR | Hurley Palmer Flatt

By combining his degree at Imperial College with industrial training with Hawker Siddeley in the early 1980s, Robert quickly moved into R&D in the areas of switchgear, controls, machines and transformers. With this excellent academic and practical grounding, he then moved to his first M&E engineering consultancy with James R Briggs, where he worked on a variety of projects from commercial to historic buildings to Royal Academy to prisons! In 1989, Robert then moved to a multi-disciplinary consultancy, Aukett, who at the time were designing and overseeing the construction of data centres for the likes of Royal & Sun Alliance and Marks & Spencer. Robert quickly took up the reins of projects from Lloyds Bank and GSK both in London and Stevenage. Over the years, Robert developed this capability within Aukett culminating during the dot.com boom times with projects for Level 3, Worldcom and BT to name a few. Looking for a new challenge, Robert joined Hurley Palmer Flatt in 2004 and immediately started on a range of data centres for the likes of Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch; these were all high profile, high end technology data centres being delivered quickly and effectively. Since then, Robert has led the change in data centre design, moving towards adiabatic cooling, fresh air cooling and alternative power delivery processes such as distributed redundancy, these have all been part of a continual evolving design to meet the requirements and demands of the data centre market. Robert continues to specialise in critical engineering design and delivery, but also applies his capabilities to other related areas such as trading buildings and healthcare infrastructure. Although he is based in London, he now spends a lot of time in the integration process with HDR’s TMT design teams to offer critical engineer design solutions to clients on a regional and global basis.

Michael SheppardTechnical Sales Manager, USA and Canada, Piller Power Systems Inc.

Michael has more than 30+ years’ experience in the power industry. As Regional Manager at Piller Power Systems, he is involved in the application of UPS systems for mission critical power. Prior to joining Piller, he was Director of Power Quality for a Swiss based company doing business in the US for over ten years. And prior to that was involved in Industrial Automation which included equipment from PLC to AC/DC VFD.

Dietrich HabelTechnical Manager, Piller Germany GmbH & Co.KG

Dietrich Habel has degree in electrical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and having previously worked for Tyco Electronics and Siemens AG. He joined Piller in 2000. Today he supports the Piller organisations in India and South East Asia.