Gabriel Barela
Los Lunas,NM
Summary
Results-driven Data Center Professional with over 8 years of expertise in managing large-scale facilities and critical infrastructure. Demonstrated success in overseeing teams, budgets, vendor relationships, and contract negotiations. Proficient in identifying complex problems and implementing effective resolution strategies, including causal analysis. Committed to optimizing operations and driving efficiency within data center environments.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Operations & Maintenance Lead
Meta
Los Lunas, United States
10.2021 - Current
- Manage the lifecycle of assets from receipt to decommissioning, including asset tracking, tagging, and data validation.
- Develop and implement preventive maintenance plans to meet Global Maintenance Library (GML) compliance and capacity expectations, including 52-week forecasting and PM load-leveling.
- Oversee the Hexagon Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system, ensuring data accuracy and workflow efficiency.
- Serve as the site EAM ADMIN role, and as the primary point of contact for the centralized tooling support team.
- Train site staff on EAM usage and maintenance processes.
- Collaborate with site technical and operational teams, and centralized teams, to oversee site parts inventory and resolve supply chain issues.
- Guide site procedure development, revision, and approval, ensuring compliance with standards.
- Facilitate and help manage operational standards compliance.
- Lead continuous improvement meetings, coordinate corrective actions, and document lessons learned.
- Analyze performance metrics, maintenance, and operations data to identify trends and implement continuous improvement strategies.
- Act as a liaison with Project Management, Construction, and other cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on processes and data migration.
- Serve as the point of contact for audits, and ensure compliance with SOC 2/ISO 27001 standards.
- Support new construction projects by coordinating equipment training, and document turnover processes.
- Collaborate with construction partners to ensure asset tagging and equipment attributes are accurate, and comply with specifications.
Critical Facilities Engineer
Metalsa
Los Lunas, NM
12.2017 - 10.2021
- Managed CFE work completion, scheduling, and process adherence.
- Supervised CFEs in collaboration with Maintenance Coordinator to improve facility operations history.
- Led a team of CFEs to streamline pass-down and organize scheduled work for cross-shift delivery.
- Led a team of CFEs and Critical Facilities Managers in clarifying shift requirements for local guidance and global day-to-day expectation clarification.
- Effectively communicate with cross-functional teams to identify issues or concerns that could affect facility operations.
- Established clear guidelines for equipment use at the local data center with EH&S teams.
- Lead a team consisting of CFEs and Subject Matter Experts for building alarm reduction.
- Maintained project updates to critical facility managers to identify and resolve multiple alerts in the building management system.
- Mentored CFEs, developing them for troubleshooting Direct Digital Controls and Project Logic Controller systems.
- Collaborated with global teams in developing maintenance process flows and step requirements.
- Worked with the Process Coordinator on Global Maintenance Procedures and the Master Maintenance Index Change Management Process for continuous improvement.
- Involved in candidate assessment and interviewing for the CFE role.
Building Automation and Mechanical System Specialist
Yearout Service LLC
Albuquerque, Area
04.2015 - 12.2017
- Developed Yearout Service Building Automation department to design and manage retrofit projects
- Presented project plans to stakeholders, developed project schedules, budgets, implemented approved changes, and managed tasks defined in the project plan
- Performed project assessment during execution and led projects to obtain final acceptance of deliverables
- Managed direct reports and communicated changes to scope, schedule, and budget to ensure quality standards were met
- Managed direct reports' hours, schedule, and project performance
- Led teams to replace the Building Automation System for replacement and refits for Energy Efficient Upgrade projects
- Involved in writing the business case, assigning tasks to team members, ensuring scheduled milestone completion, and managing stakeholder expectations
- Divided the budget between phases to maintain scope requirements and project deliverables with all stakeholders
- Developed a multi-year plan for customers to maximize long-term budget forecasting
- Developed project scopes and created the project program for execution
- Maintained communication with clients to gather requirements and feedback to ensure a good working relationship
Education
Master of Science - Data Science
University of Denver
Denver, CO03-2025
Skills
- Large-scale facilities and critical infrastructure management
- Budget development and management
- Vendor and contract management
- Complex problem identification and resolution techniques, including causal analysis
- Time management, organization, and prioritization
- Cross-functional collaboration and communication
- Data center industry or critical infrastructure experience
- Project management
- Data science and machine learning
- Python software development
- Data visualization and deep learning
Timeline
Operations & Maintenance Lead
Meta
10.2021 - Current
Critical Facilities Engineer
Metalsa
12.2017 - 10.2021
Building Automation and Mechanical System Specialist
Yearout Service LLC
04.2015 - 12.2017
Master of Science - Data Science
University of Denver
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