Lorcan Kelly
Dublin
Summary
A program manager with an excellent analytical aptitude for engineering problem solving and innovative design engineering. Project management, verbal communications and presentation skills. Strong attention to detail with a focus on quality. As a program manager i contribute to data center construction and commissioning program initiatives, site qualifications, cost control and design reviews while collaborating with site planning, engineering, procurement, and construction services teams to drive standards, resiliency, cost, and process improvements. Primary contact for complex project scheduling and a regional subject matter expert (SME). Driving large, cross-team, business critical goals and objectives with significant bottom-line impact. Solutions are inventive, easily maintainable, appropriately scalable and extensible. Experienced in the data centre and semiconductors industry. SME in HVAC/mechanical systems and specialist gas installations.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Colo Build Program Manager
Amazon Web Services
03.2022 - Current
- Contributes to Colocation Data Center (ie. Colo) construction and commissioning program initiatives.
- Site qualifications, cost control, design reviews, and onsite project management as needed.
- Collaborating with site planning, engineering, procurement, and construction services teams to drive Colo standards, resiliency, cost, and process improvements.
- Managing, evaluating, and providing input to site planning, design, installation, start-up, testing, and turnover activities.
- Flexible to cover multiple inflight tasks and aggressive timelines.
- Responsible for providing timely updates for progress and lessons learned.
- Working efficiently and routinely delivering program goals with limited guidance.
- Taking on ambiguous problem areas, for either existing or new initiatives.
- Implementation of new mechanisms for evaluating and building team performance that is used to drive improvements in quality and service.
- Focusing on program initiatives, scalability, design and testability of colo data center infrastructure systems.
- Primary contact for complex project scheduling or a regional support of subject matter experts (SME).
- Responsible for large, cross-team, business critical goals and objectives with significant bottom-line impact.
- Staying on top of data center technology trends, understanding which are appropriate for AWS facilities.
- Driving mindful discussions with peers, influencing stakeholders and partner engineering teams.
- Understanding that not all problems are new, or require new solutions. Their solutions are inventive, easily maintainable, appropriately scalable and extensible.
- When confronted with discordant views, finds the best way forward and influence others to follow that path to build consensus.
- Contributing to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and alignment with AWS expectations.
Colo Build Program Engineer
Amazon Web Services
01.2022 - 03.2022
- Part of highly creative, efficient team tasked with tackling fascinating and challenging problems building and supporting the operations of AWS owned data centres, Hybrid Colo's, Single Tennent Colo and Multi Tennent Colo builds.
- Responsible for supporting vendors, contractors and other teams involved in the construction and commissioning of various systems such as Medium and low voltage power systems, Generators, UPS, HVAC, Chilled Water Systems, Building Management systems (BMS), Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS), Testing and balancing, Pumps and Hydronic systems.
Data Center Engineering Operations Technician/Engineer
Amazon Web Services
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Serves as a technical resource within our mission critical Data Center.
- Helps ensure overall availability and reliability to meet or exceed defined service levels of Data Center Engineering Operations.
- Managing vendor relations and requirements - Currently leading all mechanical works for my area of DC's.
- Assisting in the operation and maintenance of all electrical, mechanical, and HVAC equipment within the Data Center/Facility.
- Serving as a technical resource in mechanical infrastructure, which is my area of expertise.
- Currently authoring and approving and overseeing all mechanical related Procedures for my area.
- Carrying out hands on diagnosis of mechanical faults, troubleshooting and repair.
- Assisting in the maintenance and monitoring of all Data Center systems to include incidents/events, problems, changes, monitoring, problem escalation/notification/resolution and all other aspects of Data Center support.
- Monitoring and troubleshooting all mechanical, electrical, HVAC systems, voice/data, chiller systems and generators.
- Providing assistance to contractor or data center engineers to ensure proper operation and maintenance of all facility equipment.
- Assisting contractor or data center engineers to deploy new equipment, such as building racks, cabling, and other tasks as necessary.
- Performing site walkthroughs to verify proper operation of Facility Equipment and Monitoring Systems.
- Analyse data and directly report metrics to management.
- Coordinating with DC chief engineers and facilities managers.
- Carrying out mechanical audits to identify and reengineer and single points of failure which could impact customer availability.
- Acting as a Facilities First Responder to critical events.
- Part of the team supporting new data center facilities and existing data center facilities.
IRCS TCM (Total Chemical Management)
INTEL
02.2020 - 03.2021
- Responsible for directly working on bulk and specialized chemical and gaseous systems.
- Primary duties include all mechanical chemical and gas delivery systems which support high volume manufacturing facilities maintenance and operations on the entire Leixlip site.
- Monitoring critical systems and spotting issues before they become a problem for the manufacturing process.
- Operating and maintaining chemical and gas delivery systems which support high volume manufacturing facilities.
- Perform routine preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and repair on chemical, solvent and gas systems.
- Utilizing quality systems, diagnosing process issues, interpreting data related to bulk chemical and gas delivery systems.
- Maintaining analytical equipment and creating statistical reports.
- Utilizing Maximo maintenance planning software.
- Understand and diagnosing analytical data using Cimplicity.
- Excellent communication skills and interacting with factory and other customers/stakeholders within a diverse organization.
- Role modelling safety and attention to detail, procedural requirements related to hazardous production materials.
- Monitoring gas purity levels down to less than 1 part per trillion.
Senior Refrigeration Engineer/Commissioning Engineer
Coolair LTD
Dublin
09.2007 - 12.2020
- Responsible for day-to-day diagnosis/repair of customer equipment varying in size from commercial to large industrial critical control warehouses and data centers.
- Involved commissioning of new installations/commissioning of VRV systems, chillers and large critical AHU's.
- Notable installations include Equinox, Telecity, Intel, Kuehne+nagel United Drug and Uniphar sites.
- Liaising with clients.
- Managing resources and sub-contractors on site.
- Check and verify standards of work.
- Commissioning and testing of equipment.
- Client confidentiality.
- Handing over and demonstrating equipment upon completion.
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Industrial and Systems Engineering
Griffith College
Dublin04.2025
QQI Level 6 - Refrigeration/HVAC Trade Certificate
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin01.2011
QQI Level 6 - Industrial gas/fuel installations
Metac Training
01.2014
QQI Level 5 - Safety Officer
01.2021
QQI Level 6 - Domestic gas installations
Metac Training
01.2018
FGAS 2079 Certification -
CITY AND GUILDS
01.2012
Skills
- Project management
- Mechanical troubleshooting
- HVAC systems
- Cost control
- Quality assurance
- Team collaboration
Websites
References
Available on request
Timeline
Colo Build Program Manager
Amazon Web Services
03.2022 - Current
Colo Build Program Engineer
Amazon Web Services
01.2022 - 03.2022
Data Center Engineering Operations Technician/Engineer
Amazon Web Services
01.2021 - 01.2022
IRCS TCM (Total Chemical Management)
INTEL
02.2020 - 03.2021
Senior Refrigeration Engineer/Commissioning Engineer
Coolair LTD
09.2007 - 12.2020
Bachelor's Degree - Industrial and Systems Engineering
Griffith College
QQI Level 6 - Refrigeration/HVAC Trade Certificate
Dublin Institute of Technology
QQI Level 6 - Industrial gas/fuel installations
Metac Training
QQI Level 5 - Safety Officer
QQI Level 6 - Domestic gas installations
Metac Training
FGAS 2079 Certification -
CITY AND GUILDS
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