Steve O'Donnell

Current

• Managing Director EMEA Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group
• Non Executive Director at Iceotope Limited
• Editor and Blogger at http://www.thehotaisle.com

Past

• Member of Industry Advisory Board at Fusion-io
• SVP IT Infrastructure & Operations at First Data International
• Global Head of Data Centre and Customer Experience Management BT Operate Environment Champion at BT

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Steve O'Donnell’s Summary

Steve O’Donnell leverages his experience as a senior IT Operations Executive as an IT Industry Analyst. He has over 30 years IT experience working up to and including board level in large multinational organisations. He has international experience in Europe, North America and ROW

Steve is recognized as a specialist in IT Operations.

Steve has a clear understanding of application and infrastructure architectures in the Banking and Telecommunications industries as well as experience in Oil & Gas and Insurance.

Steve has a rare mix of business and IT experience, having taken a consulting business from start-up to winning a major industry award for rapid growth, followed by a trade sale as well as significant IT Operational experience in large corporations.

Steve O'Donnell’s Specialties:

Creating the right balance between Risk, Cost and Cycle Time
Industry recognized Green credentials
Unrelenting attention to detail to deliver standardisation
Business aligned IT strategy development & delivery
Data Centre migrations and consolidation
Data Centre Design & Build
Storage, Network and Server Virtualisation
Grid Computing
Structured operational improvement
IT In Sourcing, Out Sourcing and Off Shoring
Programme and Project rescue
Customer Experience Management

Additional Information

Steve O'Donnell’s Groups:

Industry member of the DTI funded Knowledge Transfer Network in Inter-Enterprise Computing (IEC), focusing on Grid Computing technologies.
MBCS - Member British Computer Society
MIET - Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
MIEEE - Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

•    PricewaterhouseCoopers Alumni
•    The Official IEEE Group
•    PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) employees and alumni
•    Afcom
•    Lehman Brothers Alumni
•    Harvard University Alumni
•    Harvard Business School Alumni Network
•    First Tuesday
•    Cable & Wireless Alumni
•    First Data Networking
•    Deutsche Bank
•    Morgan Stanley Active & Alumni
•    BCS Membership Group
•    The Green Data Center Alliance
•    BT Network
•    UK CIO, CTO and IT Directors
•    DatacenterDynamics
•    Flying Blue Platinum
•    ESG
•    Running IT as a Business
•    ecoConnect - low-carbon industries and cleantech coalition
•    IVY GROUPS - The Professional Network for Ivy League Alumni
•    Computer Room Design
•    One Alfred Place Members' Network
•    MainframeZone
•    Large Tape Users Group
•    High Frequency Trading Technologists
•    Message Central Alumni

Steve O'Donnell’s Honors:

Winner of Deloitte & Touche Fast50 Award 1999
Member of the BT Technology Leadership Group (TLG) 2007
Winner of the Computing Green Project of the Year award 2007 for the BT 21st Century Data Centre project
Winner of the British Computer Society award 2007 for the Best Use of Green Technology for the BT 21st Century Data Centre project
Winner of the European Green IT Project of the Year Award 2008 for the BT 21st Century Data Centre project

Steve O'Donnell’s Contact Settings

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