James Coffey

Experience

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  Yamanouchi | Pharmaceuticals

  Sept 2001 - Jan 2002

  AIESEC Traineeship - Graduate Engineer

  Completed a four month plant survey to develop a planned maintenance register and gain international cross-cultural team experience in an industrial environment.

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  Dalkia Utilities Services

  May 2002 - Jul 2006

  Project Engineer & Project Manager

  Conducted energy management studies, identified savings and delivered energy saving projects at the Berkshire Brewery. Project Engineer for combined heat & power energy centre installation at the University Hospital of Hartlepool replacing coal fired boiler plant with considerable improvements made air quality in the area.

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  Energy Conservation Systems Pty. Ltd

  Mar 2007 - Apr 2008

  Sustainability Engineer & Project Manager

  Specialising in absorption cooling and co-generation / tri-generation system design and installation project management. Technical responsibility for co-generation and tri-generation business development, providing design instruction and modelling calculations used to form the basis of energy performance guaranteed projects.

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  Dalkia Utilities Services

  Apr 2008 - Sept 2010

  Project managed a company-first £3.5M bio-energy heat network in North London. Installed 9MW of centralised plant providing heating and hot water to 2,200 homes and delivering 40% carbon emission reduction over conventional design. The scheme delivers heat for residents at 10% cheaper than equivalent domestic gas boiler rates. Delivered tri-generation system design and project supervision for £16M energy centre refurbishment at the King's College Hospital, London. Responsible for mechanical and thermal plant design specification and selection, including absorption chillers, adiabatic coolers, engine thermal recovery, gas and oil infrastructure and water treatment. Implemented a first of its kind adiabatic cooler installation for the UK, enhancing an Australian product with innovative grey water solution.

  • Bioenergy District Heating Project Manager

    Mar 2009 - Sept 2010

  • Tri-generation System Design Engineer

    Apr 2008 - Aug 2009
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  Dalkia

  Oct 2011 - Nov 2012

  * Support Technical and Operations Director in the management of all country business units within the Northern Europe Zone portfolio* Responsible for the assessment and approval of key financial and technical data for the zone.* Co-ordinated the development of an international executive engineering network linking technical management across the Northern Europe zone business units for collaborative knowledge sharing plus training and building international cultural awareness and co-operation.* Construction Project Management of a major energy infrastructure refurbishment project for the Berkshire Hospital designed to save the NHS Trust more than £1M in energy costs annually. * Key role in supporting business units with strategic maintenance services contract negotiation. Show less

  • Northern Europe Zone Technical and Operations Manager

    Aug 2010 - Nov 2012

  • Biomass Dryer / CHP Plant Design & Construction Manager

    Oct 2011 - Jul 2012
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  Arup

  Dec 2012 - Oct 2014

  Senior Engineer specialising in decentralised energy and energy infrastructure for cities

  * Managing an infrastructure development programme for the Greater London Authority to realise £100M investment in clean decentralised energy infrastructure (heat and power networks) throughout London.* Key role providing expertise for technical due diligence and strategic operation and investment advice to companies on energy infrastructure, design, investment and acquisition projects.* Responsible for the development of Arup's 'energy projects - design and delivery' business unit within the low carbon technologies and city resilience sector.* Principal author of the London Heat Network Manual published in April 2014 by the Greater London Authority on behalf of the Mayor of London. Show less

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  Equinix EMEA

  Nov 2014 - Jul 2019

  Business leader in Equinix EMEA Engineering Development responsible for creating and delivering solutions to drive infrastructure performance and service improvements for our customers. Providing leadership across the European-wide portfolio as the design authority for energy and water efficiency, meeting the resilience requirements of customers; advising projects and operations on mechanical infrastructure designs, ensuring that capital expenditure is balanced with operational savings.

  • Head of Infrastructure Performance Management

    Jan 2016 - Jul 2019

  • Group Leader of Energy Concepts

    Nov 2014 - Jan 2016
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  Equinix

  Jul 2019 - now

  Leading a specialist team dedicated to Automation vision, strategy and delivery for Equinix IBX Operations. The group focuses on process, system and analytics automation and service scaling, delivering tooling to the operations community empowering them to more effectively scale the business. The team is strongly motivated towards sustainable and ethical AI development and application, efficient IT system services, leveraging our big data systems for insight extraction and in the pursuit of efficiency and sustainability objectives. Show less

  • Global Head of Automation

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Global Head of DCIM & Analytics

    Jul 2019 - Apr 2023