Founders

Charles H. Krieger

• BSEE Electrical Engineering - graduate of University of California  August 2nd. 1947
• Registered electrical engineer in California, Nevada, Texas  and Missouri
• Worked for local [San Francisco] multi-discipline consulting engineering firm for ten years
• Started own Electrical engineering consulting firm in 1957 as ‘Charles H. Krieger and Associates, Inc., sold firm in 1988 to operate as singular electrical consulting engineer
• 1988 to present, worked as electrical consultant for select clients,  basically in data center work

Outside professional activities:

• Illuminating engineering Society [IES] Past President - Golden Gate Section
• Past Chairman ‘San Francisco Uniform Electrical Interpretations Committee’
• Member IEEE from 1950?  to present[Life Member]
• Initiated and started IEEE Std. 1184-1994 and acted as Vice Chair [IEEE Guide for the Selection  and Sizing of Batteries for Uninterruptible Power Systems]
• Past member Board of Directors of the CEAC [Consulting Engineers Association of California]
• Past Member of Electrical Technical Advisory Committee for  Board of Registration, State of  California.
• Formed a group of computer center facility involved technical personnel [Computer Center
  Round Table Group] which met quarterly for three years, disbanded in 1988.
• In March 2003, as founder, was instrumental in forming a new group of computer center facility involved  technical personnel [Critical Facility Round Table Group]
• Have been lecturer on UPS systems, Batteries, NEC code, etc..
• Instigated new philosophy in designing electrical distribution and individual metering panels for two new ‘dot com’ computer centers
• Have written technical articles for Electrical Construction and Maintenance and Electrical West
• Involved in training of data center facility engineers.
• IEEE 2002 Oakland-East Bay  chapter award for ‘Outstanding contributions to the Design of Emergency Power Systems for Data Centers’
• IEEE 2003 Individual region 6 Achievement award

Technical Information
In the 30 years of operating Firm, averaged around 10 employees and was responsible for electrical engineering and construction observation for commercial, industrial, health care and computer center facilities.  Specializing in computer center, UPS, battery and generator engineering associated with mission critical facilities work.

Bruce Myatt, PE

Bruce Myatt, PE is a registered Mechanical Engineer and Director of Mission Critical Projects at KlingStubbins in San Francisco, and a Founder of Silicon Valley’s Critical Facilities Round Table (CFRT).  He has over 25 years of engineering consulting experience working with facilities such as data centers, clean rooms, semiconductor fabs, nuclear power plants, and DOE’s nuclear weapons production facilities.  He has recently led work for LBNL and PG&E related to data center energy efficiency benchmarking, technology demonstration, and design and retro-commissioning programs. 

Bruce has actively pioneered server cooling solutions that isolate air flow in order to prevent the “recirculation” and “short-circuiting” of chilled air in data center environments.  He has been selected as a technical advisor to DOE, EPA, CEC, LBNL, and PG&E Committees focused on Data Center Energy Efficiency, and he has provided data center energy efficiency webinars for Mission Critical magazine and presentations to audiences at Data Center Dynamics, Next Generation Data Centers, 7x24 Exchange, IFMA, Building Automation, Cisco Executive Round Table, Intel’s Great Eco Debates, HP Executive Conferences, Connectivity Week, Data Centers 21, Technology Convergence Conference , Crescent Solutions, Teladata, Crescent, and PG&E Customer Energy Efficiency conferences. 

Bruce is Co-Chairman of the CFRT High Density Data Center Committee; member of the Board of Advisors and Technical Columnist for “Mission Critical” Magazine; member of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Energy Committee; Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sigma Phi Delta International Social-Professional Engineering Fraternity; and, recently, a member of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of the Bay Area.

Stephen K. Johnson

Stephen K. Johnson is a Co-Founder of the Critical Facilities Round Table(CFRT) and he is an industry leader in Critical Facilities/Data Centers for twenty –six years.   His focus has brought to those he has worked for and the clients he has worked with, standards, expediency, and cost savings.  Future proofing an industry that goes through major renovations every three years, he has been able to build resiliency of staff and the technical expertise this discipline requires.  He has taken troubled corporations and created a platform that delivers a better product and a solid return by understanding the needs of the customer and the industry he is working in.  Procurement, savings needed and time lines are resolved by the metrics he has developed.  Training for staff and the most valuable of resources improving the skills  of those he is working with has created more than once a program to raise the bar and set clear attainable goals.  By raising the staff expertise, he has also created a higher return in customer satisfaction.
 
In Fairfax , Virginia Steve manages 29,000,000 square 29,000,000 square feet of Critical Facility raised floor space is the client base of Trammell Crow Company(TCC).  Mr. Johnson has put a handle and a solution to Critical Facilities issues in the Real Estate Industry.

Mr Johnson has brought a great benefit to this complicated emergency driven client base.  He has introduced needed products  such as playbooks in Commissioning, Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and client Critical Facility needs. 

In Sunnyvale , CA Steve managed International and National Critical Facility  design, development and than into production of Twenty – one(21) Critical Facility locations were his responsibilities.   This effort represented 70 percent of the corporations budget that he was responsible to manage.  Fiscal responsibility included all spectrums reporting to the CFO and board of directors that would influence the rate of value to take the company public.  Core standards were established that created a simplicity of metrics and peer review that would take an 18 month process into 6 months of production.  His technical expertise would develop new product lines that would in the future change the industry in how trending and evaluations could be monitored in a Data Center.      

In Santa Fe Springs ,  CA Steve Acted as the Critical Facility Contractor:  Took a depressed part of the company and made it into a solid producer within 6 months of his leadership.  He developed a new product line that would put Compel Corporation as the largest installation company of twisted pair for AT&T. 

Horst Pfendt

Horst is a co-founder of the Critical Facilities Roundtable (CFRT) and a thirty year veteran Data Center Facilities Manager for major USA Corporations including Chevron Headquarters in San Ramon California. Horst leads up the CFRT Legacy Data Center Committee focused on improving the operations of Data Centers that were built over five years ago.