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AFCOM's Data Center Manager of the Year was presented at Data Center World in March 2010. The following is information about the winner and finalists.

AFCOM’s Data Center Manager of the Year Award Winner:

Michael Greeney, Data Center Facilities Team Leader, Chevron
Mike Greeney is an IT veteran with more than 20 years at Chevron and has been in his current role as data center manager since 2001 when he assumed leadership of the facilities operations of one of Chevron’s flagship data centers located in Houston. Recognized by Chevron’s IT management for his exemplary leadership, communication and organizational skills, Mike’s role expanded in April 2009, during a re-organization. At that time, he was also asked to oversee the second flagship data center at the company’s headquarters in San Ramon, Calif. To read more, click here.

Data Center Manager of the Year Award Finalists:

In recognition of the important role data center managers have in the overall success of their companies, AFCOM will continue its 30-year tradition of supporting these individuals by presenting its 2010 Data Center Manager of the Year award at Data Center World on Mar. 10 in Nashville. The three finalists selected from a field of more than 40 nominations include:

 


Michael Greeney, Data Center Facilities Team Leader, Chevron
Mike Greeney is an IT veteran with more than 20 years at Chevron and has been in his current role as data center manager since 2001 when he assumed leadership of the facilities operations of one of Chevron’s flagship data centers located in Houston. Recognized by Chevron’s IT management for his exemplary leadership, communication and organizational skills, Mike’s role expanded in April 2009, during a re-organization. At that time, he was also asked to oversee the second flagship data center at the company’s headquarters in San Ramon, Calif.

 


Joseph Perillo, Vice President, Technology Operations, MetLife
Joseph Perillo oversees all operational aspects of data center operations for MetLife’s information technology group and is directly responsible for managing two enterprise data centers. He also manages several vendor relationships, including Patni, Siemens and AT&T, to ensure third-party operational commitments are being met. Joseph has more than 30 years’ experience in IT. He played an integral part in consolidating the data center operations of two companies acquired by MetLife and physically relocated data centers from St. Louis and Boston to MetLife’s Rensselaer facility. Prior to joining MetLife in 1999, he managed data centers for General Electric for 22 years and Fleet Financial Group (now Bank of America) for five years.

 


Tom Roberts, Manager, Data Center Facilities, Trinity Information Services
Tom Roberts’ current responsibilities for Trinity Health include the facility and infrastructure readiness of three corporate data centers and 20 hospital-based computer centers. He evaluates the readiness of Trinity’s computer centers for the continued rollout of common clinical, financial and supply-chain applications in all of its hospitals coast-to-coast. Roberts has been with Trinity for 28 years and prior to that worked as a master electrician in the electrical construction field for 11 years.

 

Each of these finalists was selected based on their day-after-day efforts, often putting themselves on the line, to keep the ongoing business operations of their companies up and running. To do this, they had to manage multi-million dollar budgets, equipment, employees and technology. Each has been successful in those efforts and proven to be the keys to the success of their data centers and ultimately their entire organizations.

A panel of editors from industry publications, previous data center manager of the year award recipients and AFCOM executives will select the winner.