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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
Zahl Limbuwala, BEng(Hons), MIEE, MBCS, CEng, CITP 
Chairman | Zahl has been involved in information technology both from a career
perspective and through personal interest over that last 15 years. Having started out as an electronic engineer he rapidly moved into software development, real-time system and embedded process control. He also embraced the systems, networks and security design and administration disciplines during the technical hands-on part of his career. Since then Zahl has held a number of operational management and strategic planning roles with the managed services/service provider world. Zahl has been involved with the evolution of the data centre from the initial engineering approach to the slightly more scientific approach that's taken nowadays. Zahl founded the DCSG after having spent a number of years unsuccessfully trying to find a forum through which data centre skills, experience and best practices could be shared. |  | Nick is an Infrastructure Architect with 17 years IT experience. Nick is currently head of Vodafone's End-to-End Strategy and Data Centre Architecture team, with responsibilties covering Vodafone's European data centres. He has experience in the delivery of solutions, definition of standards, infrastructure product selection, and infrastructure capability strategy and direction setting, all for large enterprise class data centres. Prior experience includes data centre operations, CASE tool development and product support, and various enterprose architecture roles. Nick is a Member of the British Computer Society since 2005 and holds a Manager's Certificate in ITIL Infrastructure Management. Nick is 39 and married with 2 children. |  | Stuart Paul is an experienced Senior Manager with specialist expertise in the design, build and operation of mission critical data centres.
He is currently engaged as a consultant and is advising the corporate banking sector on their future strategic data centre infrastructure requirements |  | Ian is an ITIL certified, process driven IT professional with over 10 years experience delivering and operating solutions and services in the media, finance, telecoms and most recently the dotcom/ISP sectors. At Cable & Wireless Ian was Head of Engineering and Operational support for web hosting and was responsible for the day to day running of in excess of 2000 devices across 3 data centres. Ian is currently working on a long term contract at Bupa. Ian is an effective communicator, outgoing and approachable with the ability to develop relationships easily and motivate others. |  | Liam Newcombe, with over 14 years experience in IT infrastructure, software development and solution design Liam has delivered services and products used by many of the UK’s biggest businesses. Liam has held a wide variety of roles ranging from operational management to product engineering. Liam is also an advocate of driving up the level of professionalism in the IT industry through the use of sound engineering practices. He has brought to market a number of data centre based product offerings for businesses such as Digital Island and Cable & Wireless. Today Liam consults on solution architecture and enables businesses to truly understand the relationship between their requirements and the way technology can best fulfil those requirements. | | David Bruce is an independent consultant with over 11 years of industry experience. David has experience working within the Defence and Telecommunications sector. He has specified, built and operated datacentres within the US, mainland Europe and Britain. Dave has also spent time within the product engineering group of a major telco and was responsible for a number of product launches within their managed IT services portfolio. | | Axel Bergmann is a computer scientist with 21 years of IT experience as systems architect and developer. Born in Germany, he managed mainframe to server migrations in the Unix area before he moved to Hawaii to work for Digital Island Inc. His expertise in software development drove the design of Digital Island’s NOC setup in Honolulu, from where he came back to Europe to manage the construction and setup of their European Data Centres. Axel is ITIL certified and at Cable & Wireless he worked as Systems Architect developing a Change Management platform within the ITIL framework. Axel is now working for Barclays Capital and manages their largest Data Centre in Europe. His eclectic professional career gave him a holistic approach to drive cross-domain innovations and projects. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 23 April 2007 )
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