David Pfirman

Background

About David Pfirman

Facilities manager with demonstrable success in continuously improving data center operations and availability on a global scale. Expertise in facilities strategic planning, management, engineering, construction, sourcing/procurement and operations in a faced paced multidisciplinary environment of mission critical operations. Global Facilities Operations: Conceived and executed the strategy for a global data center operations organization to reduce risk, educate local teams and significantly improve resiliency. Outages were reduced by more than 50% and framework put in place for continued improvement through leveraging of best practices across engineering, and operations, facilities management, vendor and IT teams. Project Management: Developed business case for, managed and implemented organizational programs and over $100M in complex projects to support new business and internal customers, asset management requirements, within budget and schedule. Provide clear communications of goals, schedules, risks, progress and action plans across the globe. Procurement / Real Estate Management: Management of global sourcing organizational and regional real estate acquisition/disposition to minimize total cost of facility ownership over its complete lifecycle. Oversaw $2B in contracts with annual capex reductions of 5%. Key Competencies: Global Team Building, Leadership, Project / Construction Management, Mentorship, Operational Compliance/Risk/Performance Management and Metrics, Data Analysis, Asset and Energy Management, Facilities Engineering