Our project teams work tirelessly to help our data center clients, save time, lower costs, increase sales, secure funding, improve reliability and reduce risk.
Whether you are seeking an independent analysis prior to a potential acquisition, looking for the best way to upgrade or improve an existing data center or getting ready to build a new one, FOCUS’s mission critical team delivers outstanding value by skillfully managing the entire process from inception to conclusion.
Over the years, our Associates have worked with some of the largest and most influential brands in the data center business. From feasibility studies and site selection through planning, equipment integration, construction and commissioning, FOCUS provides clients with high-quality advice or turn-key solutions. Our seasoned professionals draw from extensive experience to increase efficiencies, improve profitability and mitigate risk. We’re able to leverage our equipment, facility, and market intelligence to solve a wide variety of problems.
Our unique ability to combine data center expertise, with business acumen and marketing savvy gives us the ability to address challenges others can't easily take on.
DECADES OF DATA CENTER EXPERIENCE DELIVERING IMPACTFUL SOLUTIONS
DATA CENTER CONSULTING
We provide our clients with high-quality advice through every step of the data center life cycle to help them select optimal solutions, find new partners, locations, plan, finance or build their next data center. We leverage current and developing market intelligence to address a wide variety of data center challenges and capitalize on emerging opportunities.
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CONSTRUCTION & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Whether serving as traditional Construction Manager, an Owner's Rep or a hybrid of the two, our class-leading data center construction team merges years of experience, meticulous processes and plain old common sense to get customized client facilities up and running fast and cost effectively.
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MARKETING STRATEGY & COLLATERAL
When two decades of data center experience are combined with bold marketing strategy and dynamic, impactful collateral our clients are able to advance their businesses in ways they didn't previously think possible. Projects include: Brochures, Training Materials, Market Segmentation, Pitch Decks, Master Planning and Online Content.
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BUSINESS POSITIONING & FUNDING
When embarking on a fund raising initiative, FOCUS helps clients refine strategy, streamline structure and clarify their messaging. The result: straightforward stories told as concisely as possible that are sharply focused on the essential elements of the entity's value proposition.
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EQUIPMENT SELECTION & PROCUREMENT
Whether you are upgrading an existing facility or planning a new one, equipment selection, integration and managing lead times can all be critical pain points. Our Associates have procured and integrated over $200 million dollars in equipment over their careers and are uniquely positioned to provide the best equipment pre-purchase solutions available.
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SITE SELECTION & DESIGN
Our site selection and design services span the mission-critical facility delivery process. We thrive on solving the toughest infrastructure challenges with creative, forward thinking, cost effective solutions, that fit our client's business model and project strategy. Our experience yields optimized results throughout the entire planning and implementation process.
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PROJECTS WORTHY OF A SECOND LOOK
Here's just a small sampling of the data center projects that FOCUS's Associates have worked on over the last few years.
Windstream Data Center, Charlestown, MA
Starting with an unoccupied space in a Northeastern industrial park, the Charlestown project called for both the engineering and upgrading of the site's utility service to a 13.8kV, 3MVA substation as well as the build-out of a new 10,000 SF data center to serve as a showcase facility to support Windstream’s growth plans in the region.
Century Link Data Center, Moses lake, WA
Provided Master Planning and Design-Build services for the initial phase of a 6MW, 42,000 SQ FT data center which needed to be rapidly deployed in remote region of Washington State in a former Air Force command and control center.
Digital Realty Trust, Wakefield, MA
Provided Master Planning for 60,000 SQ FT of data center along with designing, building and equipping the first of six 10,000 SQ FT, 1.2MW pods envisioned by the master plan. Digital Realty specified the conversion of the former American Mutual Insurance Company into State-of-the-Art Data Center with a new 8MVA substation and chilled water plant that would meet the technical requirements of large enterprises seeking wholesale data center space in a world-class facility.
A TEAM BUILT TO PERFORM
At FOCUS Mission Critical Advisors, we have assembled a core team of industry professionals that cumulatively represent decades of data center experience and afford clients with diverse and complimentary mission critical know-how. When required by the specifics of any given project, we can dig deep into our extended team to find associates with distinct skills to match a particular project's scope. Working in association with each other, this extended family - many of who own their own small consulting companies like us - can come together to accomplish a broad range of mission critical challenges, take on a variety of data center projects and deliver exceptional results.
Managing Associate
mark Schneider
Mark has spent the last 30 years of his career in the mission critical industry. Over this period, Mark has worked with a veritable who’s who of enterprise and data center companies where he has over-seen the design, construction and operation of first-class, cost effective and reliable mission critical facilities nationwide.
Beginning with the co-founding of Harmonics Limited where he served as CEO and Chairman from 1994 – 2002, Mark continued his career in the data center industry as co-founder of Equipment Pipeline and then HorizonLine Technologies. Mark was a Principal and Managing Director at EYP Mission Critical Facilities where he was responsible for day-to-day operations and business development of the company’s global data center commissioning & operations consulting business and then, prior to founding Focus Mission Critical Advisors, he held various senior leadership positions with DSA where he was instrumental in developing several data center focused businesses.
Sr. Associate, Operations
terri winchell
Leveraging a career's worth of experience, Terri helps FOCUS to provide industry-leading support to our clients throughout a project's life-cycle. She can take the lead on any FOCUS project and run project teams that we have assembled to provide Construction Administration, Program Management, Technical Support and Customer Service.
Over the years, clients have enthusiastically endorsed both Terri and her teams for responsiveness, accuracy and professionalism in all interactions. Terri has over 30 years of experience in the critical power industry having worked for KW Control Systems, Piller GMBH and DSA before joining FOCUS.
Sr. Associate, Critical Infrastructure
Richard A. Greco, LEED® AP
Rich brings with him more than 40 years of data center design, operations, and commissioning experience. Richard has directed, managed, tested and commissioned critical infrastructure systems for many of the world’s top financial institutions and technology companies including Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Chase, GoDaddy, EBay and Adobe. Rich has served on IEEE and ASHRAE Standards working groups and is an expert on a wide variety of mission-critical infrastructure technologies and leading-edge design practices. He is a LEED® certified Professional and has addressed numerous professional and industry conferences on topics such as the commissioning of new and existing buildings, high density data centers, the operation and maintenance of critical facilities, risk assessment and data center efficiency.
Sr. Associate, Engineering
Andrew Nebbs, P.E.
Andrew is a 25 plus year data center veteran. A licensed professional engineer, he is an expert at helping customers refine data center strategies, evaluate existing facilities, plan for expansion and optimize energy and operational efficiency. Over his career, Andrew has been involved in data center projects covering the spectrum from conceptual design through the management of end-of-life strategies for infrastructure replacement and maintenance. Andrew’s understanding of all phases of a data center’s life-cycle provides the foundational expertise to support any data center project irrespective of goals.
