Steve O’Donnell is CEO at DC Professional Development where he is building a worldwide network of some of the most experienced data center professionals and domain experts to develop and deliver a series of training courses that break new ground in the data center learning space.
He has over 30 years global Data Center experience working at up to and including CEO level in large multinational organisations and is globally recognised as a specialist in Storage, Data Centers and Sustainability.
He has significant experience in the Banking and Telecommunications industries as well as in Oil & Gas and Insurance. He is an inventor and holds a number of patents in the data center cooling area. Steve is a entrepreneur, a businessman, with a deep understanding of how to drive performance and efficiency in the organisations he manages.
Steve was CEO at MEEZA, a major data centre and cloud services company based in Doha Qatar and serving the MENA region. MEZZA is a joint venture backed by the Qatar Foundation and based in theQatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP). MEEZA offers advanced and innovative services to business clients underpinning Qatar’s stated objective to make the knowledge based society a reality in the region.
Prior to MEEZA Steve was Managing Director EMEA and Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group(ESG) he specialised in Data Centre Power & Cooling, Data Centre Strategy and Best Practices (planning, consolidation and migration), IT Service Management, Data Centre Automation and Server Hardware and Architectures (blades, server virtualization, cloud computing infrastructure & services).
Prior to ESG Steve ran IT Infrastructure Internationally for FDC, the largest global credit, debit, gift and prepay card processing company in the world. He was Global Head of Data Centres at BT running the largest data centre estate and the biggest IT Operation in Europe. He has a worldwide reputation as a thought leader in Green IT having won six industry awards for his 21st Century Data Centre vision and design. He has developed a framework for categorizing Data Centre Efficiency, leveraging the maturity model ideas from CMM.
O’Donnell became the first non manufacturer and first European based contributing member of The Green Grid when he took BT into membership. He is a professional member of the IEEE, the IET and the British Computer Society.
