PROF. IAN BITTERLIN

Specialist Areas: Datacenter Engineering & Design

 

Ian is a Chartered Engineer with more than 27 years’ experience in datacenter power and cooling following 25 years’ in rotating electrical machines and systems.

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Formerly CTO for Emerson Network Power Systems in EMEA, Ian is now principal consultant at Critical Facilities Consulting and a Visiting Professor to the University of Leeds, School of Mechanical Engineering. Having filled senior posts in major UPS and datacenter OEMs, Anton Piller, Liebert, Emerson Network Power, Active Power & Chloride, he has been instrumental in key product innovations and continues to consult on new datacenter design and M&E products.

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An active blogger, trainer and author of many technical papers on critical power and cooling, Ian continues to give presentations and keynote speeches around the world. A Fellow & Member of Council of the IET, Member of CIBSE & BCS, Ian sits on datacenter committees and international standards bodies, is ex-Technical Chair of the Data Centre Council of techUK, ex-Chair of the DCSG of the BCS, Accredited Tier Designer of the Uptime Institute and ex-Chair of the TWG in EMEA for The Green Grid. Ian is a Technical Expert & Expert Witness for datacenter related project disputes with HKA Ltd.

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Ian has been awarded ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Data Centre Industry’ twice, by Data Centres Europe in 2009 and by DataCenterDynamics EMEA in 2015.