Bob Doherty is awarded certification by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of their experts in data center energy efficiency.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Technologies Program announces that Bob Doherty of OMS in Your Data Center LLC, is awarded certification as a Data Center Energy Practitioners – DCEP.

This DOE pilot program is designed to raise the standards of those involved in the energy assessments of data centers. It is driven by the principal that significant knowledge, training, and skills are required to perform data center energy assessments. The DCEP program was developed and implemented in close coordination with industry stakeholders to train a core group of professional energy practitioners to help data centers reduce their energy demands and accelerate energy savings.

OMS in Your Data Center LLC has partnered with the DOE Save Energy Now Program and the American Society for Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers TC 9.9 to improve the energy efficiency of data centers and to reduce their carbon footprint. Founder and principal of OMS’, Bob Doherty, was invited to attend and comment on the DCEP pilot course held in San Francisco in November, 2010. After an intense training and tough examination Bob successfully passes, and was awarded the DCEP Certification from the DOE.

The entire pilot program included about 100 professionals who completed their training and exams designed to demonstrate proficiency in the use of select ITP energy assessment tools. Training and testing took place throughout 2010 and the DOE has set a target of 200 certified DCEP by the end on 2011.