Selected Work: Connecting Data Center Transformation to Cost and Delivery

By Joaquin (Jack) Fagundo

Data center transformation brings facility decisions, infrastructure design and financial responsibility into the same program. This selected-work summary covers global enterprise transformation programs involving migrations, consolidation and new facility builds. Client names and facility details are omitted.

The problem to solve

The assignment was to plan and deliver infrastructure transformation while maintaining responsibility for program economics. The work spanned multiple enterprise clients and included migration programs, consolidation and greenfield facilities.

This is a portfolio summary of related work, rather than a claim that every activity or result belonged to one deployment.

My contribution

I directed the global data center transformation programs, with responsibility for budgets exceeding $50 million and full profit-and-loss accountability. The role connected program planning and execution with the financial decisions behind migrations, consolidations and new builds.

My contribution also included infrastructure and network design for data centers spanning more than one million square feet, working with global engineering stakeholders. At the investment level, I participated in senior-management decisions on data center strategy and capital allocation.

These responsibilities required a view across the physical environment, the infrastructure being delivered and the economics of the program.

Supported result

The documented result for this body of work was a 40% reduction in infrastructure cost of ownership through planning and execution of migrations, consolidation and greenfield builds.

That figure describes the result recorded for the transformation work. It is not a promise that another organization will achieve the same reduction, and it should not be applied to each individual facility or project.

The practical takeaway

For an organization considering a similar change, a useful starting point is to connect the infrastructure decision to the business outcome and the operating responsibilities it creates. Treat the financial assumptions, delivery plan and ownership after transition as parts of the same discussion.

For a planning framework, read five questions before setting a cloud migration date. For the broader consulting context, explore my data center and infrastructure portfolio.

This summary describes selected past professional work. It excludes client-specific technical designs, commercial terms and confidential operational details.

A separate educational planning aid by Joaquin (Jack) Fagundo. This blank worksheet illustrates readiness questions; it is not a record from the selected-work programs described above.