Pitt Turner

Executive Director, Uptime Institute

W Pitt Turner IV, PE, is the Executive Director and Senior Tier Certification Authority for the Uptime Institute. From 1993-2005, he was a senior consultant and principal for Uptime Institute Professional Services (UIPS). In that role, he guided client investment decisions, data center design and construction projects, and site operations practices for well over 100 key clients. Since 2005, Mr Turner has served as the president of UIPS and since 2009, Executive Director of Uptime Institute. He is co-author of both the Tier Standard: Topology and Tier Standard: Operational Sustainability, in addition to numerous technical and management papers.

Before joining the Institute, Mr Turner was with Pacific Bell for more than twenty years in their corporate real estate group, where he held a wide variety of leadership positions in real estate property management, major construction projects, capital project justification, and capital budget management. He has a BS Mechanical Engineering from UC Davis and an MBA with honors in Management from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He is a registered professional engineer. He travels extensively and is a school trained chef. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mr Turner has served as a Judge for the Uptime Institute Green Enterprise IT Awards since 2009.