Silver Beach Investments (SBI)

Data Center Design, Operations & Program Management Consultant 

Trusted Advisor to Senior Leadership

Executive Summary

Results-driven Data Center Strategy and Program Management consultancy leveraging over 30 years of deep data center design, construction, and operational experience. Proven track record of guiding senior leadership through complex data center lifecycles, executing seamless public cloud migrations, optimizing capacity, and managing multi-million dollar corporate build-outs from preconstruction through close-out.

Core Competencies & Expertise

Cloud Migration & Cost Optimization

• Strategic Migration Planning: Build coherent data center migration plans to seamlessly exit corporate facilities and transition workloads to the Public Cloud.

• Financial Modeling & Cost Comparison: Help senior leadership understand current operational costs and accurately compare them against Public Cloud cost structures.

• Roadblock Remediation: Amplify remediation efforts around major milestones and roadblocks, proactively addressing the "GOTCHAS" that hamper data center lifecycle projects.

• Finance Integration: Improve reporting systems interfacing with Finance departments to ensure highly accurate cost forecasting.

Capacity Planning & Program Management

• Data Center Architecture Consensus: Facilitate a unified understanding of data center architecture and its direct relationship with capacity optimization.

• Predictive Modeling: Establish program management functions utilizing simple statistical models to forecast data center space and power capacity based on Enterprise Compute, Network, and Storage requirements.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with Capacity Planning, Architecture, and Product teams to define infrastructure requirements supporting future business growth.

• DCIM Strategy: Define and execute Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) vetting strategies to capture critical capacity planning metrics.

• Data & Inventory Management: Maintain comprehensive data center inventory databases to ensure internal stakeholders clearly understand resource utilization.

Lifecycle & Operations Management

• Tactical Execution: Facilitate cross-functional tactical meetings with project teams to effectively prioritize activities based on available resources.

• Global Metrics: Define, track, and drive performance metrics for global project teams while collaborating to develop platform best practices.

• Contract Optimization: Maintain a central knowledge base of data center contract commitments, capacity limitations, and expansion options.

Capital Project & New Data Center Build Services

1. Preconstruction Planning

• Schedule & Budget Ownership: Create and enforce team compliance for the Master Project Schedule (Critical Path) and Master Project Budget (including soft/hard costs, bonds, insurance, contingencies, and allowances).

• Procurement & Procurement Support: Lead contractor pre-qualification, bid solicitation, comprehensive bid analysis, and final selection recommendations.

• Contract Negotiation: Partner with client PMs and legal counsel to negotiate business terms, including design consultant scopes, general contractor (GC) mark-ups, fees, insurance, labor rates, and escalation.

• Design & Authority Coordination: Coordinate design teams against pre-determined guidelines; manage city/authority permitting and approval processes.

• Value Engineering & Cash Flow: Conduct constructability reviews and proactively identify ways to perform work more efficiently for less money. Establish project cash planning and cash flow projections.

2. Construction & Project Administration

• General Contractor Management: Oversee GCs to ensure strict compliance with construction contracts, budgets, changes, payment terms, and schedules.

• Cost Management & Change Control: Manage invoice/payment application processing, change order reviews, contract negotiations, and delay analysis.

• Advanced Analytics: Utilize legacy data center analytics to perform value engineering for optimized maintainability and technology refresh analysis for cloud exits.

• Document & Quality Control: Supervise QA/QC consultants, manage site safety monitoring/reporting, and maintain rigorous document control (RFIs, submittals, addenda, bulletins, and drawing sets).

• Commissioning Oversight: Direct the execution of the Commissioning Plan through to final reporting and completion.

3. Close-Out & Fit-Up Execution

• Documentation Tracking: Establish and collect all final close-out documentation, including warranties, "as-builts", and O&M manuals.

• Permitting & Entitlements: Assist Architecture/Engineering (A/E) teams with local government entitlements, occupancy permits, and Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) clearances.

• Punch List & Dispute Resolution: Manage the punch list to substantial and final completion; negotiate and resolve outstanding change orders or quality disputes.

• Vendor Integration: Assist clients in scheduling, coordinating, and managing owner-direct vendors and internal teams (including furniture, IT, and security).

• Final Accounting: Prepare, reconcile, and submit final project accounting, budget tracking, and retention payments.