Paul Mihm, owner and founder of Accord Data Center Advisors, Inc., brings nearly 25 years of mission critical facilities engineering experience as a consulting engineer, facilities manager and design/construction manager to his clients.
Education:
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University
- M.S. Management with a concentration in Reliability & Statistical Methods from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Experience:
- Consulting engineer with Flack and Kurtz in New York City
- Extensive consulting work in the financial services field
- Merrill Lynch, Solomon Brothers, Goldman Sacs
- Many infrastructure projects in the Greater New York City area
- Extensive consulting work in the financial services field
- Managing engineer with Merrill Lynch & Co
- Extensive involvement with their critical systems management
- Regional Manager of critical systems for Verio, Inc
- Coordinated design, construction, and commissioning of their five Northeastern U.S. collocation facilities
- Served as Operations Manager of their five Northeastern U.S. collocation facilities
- Implemented RCM programs for their infrastructure systems nationally
- JP Morgan Chase
- Engineer, construct and improve the operation of critical and infrastructure systems including the program development for a regional data center
- Lead manager for energy savings initiatives including demand response opportunities, central cooling plant optimization, lighting retrofits and control implementation, and the application of VFDs on major infrastructure equipment
- Developed and implemented many data center upgrade projects and completed the due diligence effort for new 100,000 square foot data center in NJ
Paul was a managing partner of a data center design/build firm for six years heading their Technical Services division before starting Accord Data Center Advisors, Inc.
Qualifications & Training:
- New York State licensed professional engineer
- Certified Facilitator of RCM2
- Aladon Network member
- Data Center Dynamics Power & Cooling Professional Certification
- Completing the University of Tennessee, Reliability & Maintainability School of Engineering, RME Implementation Certification including the reliability assessment, analysis, and report of an IT company headquarters data center located in Nashville, TN