Joe Stephenson

Joe Stephenson

609 Lenox Ave.  ● Daytona Beach FL 32118 ● 386-235-5608 ●   joestephenson1@gmail.com

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

High-impact Vice President of Data Center Operations with 20+ years of leadership in critical infrastructure resiliency, precision IT asset deployment, and complex MEP asset commissioning. Proven track record of overseeing enterprise-scale environments ($400MM+ capital spend avoided) by driving DCIM-enabled asset governance, rigorous Level 1–5 commissioning, and lifecycle extension strategies. Expert in power capacity governance, Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), and building audit-ready critical facility operations that sustain 99.998% uptime across globally distributed Tier III locations.

CORE COMPETENCIES & KEY ATTRIBUTES

• IT Asset Deployment & Precision Floor Management: High-precision rack re-stacking, standardized location taxonomies, and 80% YoY improvements in deployment accuracy.

• MEP Asset Commissioning & Reliability: Level 5 commissioning oversight, fire/life-safety compliance, and preventive maintenance optimization to cut MEP spend by $100MM+.

• Enterprise Data Center Lifecycle Strategies: Multi-year site rationalization, technology roadmapping, and long-term plan-build-run operating models.

• Data Center Service-Life Extension: Stranded power recovery and capacity reallocation to defer heavy capital expenditure.

• Power Capacity Governance: Transaction-to-power consumption tracking, demand/capacity alignment, and environmental impact controls.

• DCIM Controls & Audit Readiness: Full-stack rollouts (Device42, Nlyte, Datatrax) for physical asset visibility, access controls, and 100% regulatory compliance.

EXECUTIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Engineered Precision IT Asset Deployment: Led DCIM integrations across Device42, Nlyte, and Datatrax, introducing standardized rack-row location taxonomies across 100+ locations and improving deployment accuracy by 80% YoY.

• Directed Level 5 MEP Commissioning: Oversaw Level 5 commissioning protocols for two Uptime Institute Tier III data centers while maintaining critical SLAs, fire/life-safety standards, and physical security across enterprise facilities.

• Reduced MEP Costs by $100MM+: Applied Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) to critical facility operations over a 20-year span, reducing preventive maintenance spend while sustaining 99.998% uptime.

• Avoided $400MM+ in Capital Spend: Built lifecycle strategies that extended useful asset life, reallocated stranded power through rack re-stacking, and executed disciplined decommissioning across 200+ locations.

• Sustained 100% Audit Readiness: Formulated a five-level physical-access control framework for critical facilities that maintained flawless compliance across decades of regulatory reviews.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Silverbeachinvestments.com | 2015–Present

CIO / Critical Infrastructure Resiliency Advisor

• Resilient Infrastructure Design: Advise executive teams on resilient technology recovery facility concepts, plan-build-run operating models, and MEP critical operations recovery across healthcare and insurance sectors.

• Commissioning & Operating Models: Develop concepts for next-generation data center recovery centers, incorporating reliability-centered design techniques and long-term lifecycle strategies.

Asurion Inc. | 2013–2015

Director, Global Data Center Services & Critical Systems Operations

• IT Asset Floor Optimization: Re-stacked racks to optimize spatial allocation and recover stranded power, extending overall data center service-life expectancy by 200% and avoiding a $40MM build-out.

• MEP Spend Reduction: Cut MEP preventive-maintenance spend by >50% through RCM principles, generating eight-figure cost savings while preserving facility reliability.

• Deployment Quality & Taxonomy: Built an RCA program dropping implementation rework from 10% to 1% while standardizing rack-row naming and location taxonomies across 100+ global IT sites

Wells Fargo / Wachovia Bank | 2006–2013

Vice President, Global Network & Infrastructure Center of Influence

• Tier III MEP Commissioning: Managed Level 5 commissioning for two Uptime Institute Tier III data centers, establishing critical metrics for MEP, fire/life-safety, and physical-security systems to sustain 99.998% uptime across 100+ sites.

• Power Capacity Governance & Rationalization: Developed a capacity-planning model linking transaction metrics directly to power consumption, driving an asset rationalization program that safely decommissioned ~100 data centers.

• Enterprise Modernization Roadmaps: Created 5-year technology roadmaps across 10 wholesale business units to align cloud adoption with infrastructure capabilities and site rationalization.

Earlier Leadership Experience

Senior Vice President, Silverbeachinvestments.com, Daytona Beach FL 2002 - 2006

Vice President, Data Center Infrastructure, NTT-Verio, Denver CO 2000 - 2002

Principal Consultant, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Orlando FL, 1998 - 200