Baker was an early member of the original Compaq team, hiring on in November of 1982, while Compaq was still fewer than 100 employees. He was responsible for the formation of a number of organizations in those formative years, including the original Reliability Test Lab, and Field Service Repair Facility.
Baker has held numerous other Engineering and Marketing positions within HP/Compaq since then, including program and product management for a variety of hardware and software products.
Baker was also responsible for engineering development and advanced technology planning for HP's Infrastructure Product Group, which includes all rack, UPS, PDU, Console, and related products.
Currently he serves as Datacenter Infrastructure technologist, evangelizing the latest in energy conservation and efficiency technologies, and helping customers worldwide better understand how these technologies can lower energy costs and extend the life of their datacenter infrastructure. He is a frequent keynote speaker at various datacenter engineering events, such as the Uptime, 7 x 24 Exchange, and Datacenter Dynamics conferences. He is a recognized industry expert with respect to power, cooling, and the datacenter infrastructure.
With the dramatic growth in datacenter power density requirements, Ken has been focused in recent years on developing new power distribution and cooling technologies. He provides consulting services to ensure customers and OEMs' of what to expect in the Industry Standard Server market with respect to power and cooling directions and trends.
He also is active in industry groups such as ASHRAE and the 7x24 Exchange group.
