The Age Of Unstaffed Data Centers

After graduating from Texas A&M, Sarah started her career in operations at AT&T Broadband in Denver, CO. During that time she learned to ski and it quickly became more than a hobby. She moved to 10,000 feet for an operations job at Winter Park Ski Resort and ultimately became the Director of Mountain Operations. In 2009, she made the US Paralympic ski team and from 2010 to 2013 Sarah attained 7 national titles and 4 world cup titles. Sarah moved back to Texas in 2014 to start her operations career and complete her MBA. She was hired by Capital Group in 2017 and was promoted in 2018 to her current position, Vice President of Office Services.

Joe is a degreed Mechanical Engineer and the CoreSite Vice President of Data Center Field Operations with over 12 years of experience in the Data Center and mission critical operations industry. He was at one time a CoreSite customer and has been with the company for 3 years previously serving as the Sr. Director of Data Center Operations in the NY, BO, and MI Markets.

Cody Schnakenburg is Critical Environment Manager for QTS where he is responsible for day-to-day operation of a 990,000 sqft facility. Prior to joining QTS, he served at INAP as Vice President of Data Center Operations where he was responsible for Engineering and Operations across 37 geographically dispersed facilities. He has also served at zColo—a business unit of Zayo—where his roles included CTO, Vice President of Engineering, and Regional Director of Operations and Engineering. During his tenure there, he led a team of more than 90 geographically dispersed ops professionals in the management and support of 22 data center facilities. With more than 15 years of experience in data center engineering and operations, Schnakenburg has also played an integral role in the construction and expansion of multiple data centers across the U.S., managing large, cross-functional resource teams and comprehensive, multimillion dollar capital budgets.

Tony Evans is responsible for the development and digitization of emerging operations offers spanning the data center and facilities environments at BGIS focusing on enabling higher human efficiency and reducing human error. Tony holds a BS in Mechanical and Ocean Engineering from the University of Rhode Island. He is a veteran with 22 years of service as a Commissioned Officer and Aviator in the United States Army / Army National Guard.

Fascinated by the “why” behind the growth of emerging industries, Lloyd started with numbers, research, and analytics. He spent years in East Coast markets as an analyst, identifying commonalities where development activity was emerging. Moving to the opposite coast, Lloyd began curating content on commercial and biotech tenant trends in the PNW. Lloyd’s persistence in dissecting how people shape environments continues to drive his interest in the CRE sector. As our new Market Development Manager, Lloyd finds solutions and opportunities to deliver environments that foster better connections, collaboration, research, and innovation for commercial and biotech organizations.