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.

mark Schneider

Mark is entering his 25th year in the mission critical industry. Over his career, 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 most recently he held various leadership positions with DSA.

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 25 years of experience in the critical power industry having worked for KW Control Systems, Piller GMBH and DSA before joining FOCUS.

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 20 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 .

Gabriel Crawford

Gabriel seeks out new relationships for the company while simultaneously maintaining on-going relationships with his extensive existing client base. He works tirelessly to assist both enterprise and multi-tenant data center owners find creative and cost-effective solutions to address a broad range of new opportunities and data center challenges.

In just a little over a decade, Gabriel has helped his clients with end-to-end development deals, design-build construction and mission critical project management engagements, project funding, the coordination of risk-assessments, property evaluations, data center migration and decommissioning projects, as well as the establishment of data center maintenance and operations programs