Engineering Manager Position Cut

for Energy, Reliability and Engineering Tech Programs

August 1, 2008 -- Joseph Greenawalt finished work today as the Engineering Manager for Energy, Reliability, and Engineering Tech Programs for Grubb & Ellis Management Services, Inc. in Dallas, TX. IBM RESO Site Operations Manager, Gerry Allen, requested the staff reduction as part of a budget cutting measure. "I want to thank you (Grubb & Ellis Management Services, Inc.) for the support that you have provided the Americas Data Center portfolio through this role; including the execution of our reliability best practices program and the development of Best Practice 17. However we believe the program has matured to a point that it can be managed directly by IBM from this point forward."

Joseph Greenawalt commented, "Working for IBM and Grubb & Ellis Management Services, Inc. has been a tremendous learning opportunity. There is a vast difference in operations and engineering cultures. Operations gets the job done in spite of its lack of engineering or upper management support. The operations people are truly the heroes of critical facility operations. The evolution of existing critical data centers has been largely one-sided. It is the one-sided operational focus that has skewed the evolution of data centers to energy inefficiency. I enjoyed helping people and developing management tools to track and facilitate progress. I was surprised at this cost cutting move and relieved that critical operations staff were not cut. I always try to work myself out of a job. It was bitter sweet when I actually did."