11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Panel:
Battery Technology (session)
Steven Shapiro has been in the mission critical industry for over 30 years and has a diverse background in the study, reporting, design, commissioning, development and management of reliable electrical distribution, emergency power, lighting, and fire protection systems for high tech environments. His experience also includes providing analysis of critical application support facilities. Mr. Shapiro has extensive experience in the design and management of corporate and mission critical facilities projects with over 4 million square feet of raised floor experience, over 200 MW of UPS experience and over 400 MW of generator experience. Mr. Shapiro is the author of numerous technical articles & seminars. Recently, he was the electrical project manager and lead electrical engineer for the design of the renovation of a printing facility to a 230K sq ft colocation facility outside of Toronto, the concurrent design of two greenfield data centers for HP in the US and Canada, as well as the concurrent design of two greenfield data centers and NOC facility for Itau in Brazil. Some of his clients include, Verizon Wireless, Internap, Digital Realty, NYSE/Euronext, UBS, Morgan Stanley, HP, Citigroup/Salomon Smith Barney, Bank One/Chase, AT&T, Avon, Philip Morris, Aetna, Savvis and IBM. Mr. Shapiro is the author of numerous technical articles & seminars and speaks at many industry technical conferences.