Teraco – A Digital Realty Company
Lezar du Preez has extensive work experience in the field of electrical engineering and data center solutions. Lezar started their career as an Electrical Apprentice at Quality Installations in 2003 and worked there until 2007. Lezar then joined XON, where they held several roles including Electrician, Senior Electrician, and Pre-sales Electrical and Data Center Solutions. Lezar worked at XON from 2007 to 2013. In 2013, du Preez moved to Dimension Data as a Solution Architect specializing in Data Centre Infrastructure until 2015. Currently, they are employed at Teraco - A Digital Realty Company, where they started as a Data Centre Technical Facilities Manager in 2015 and later became the National Technical Manager. Currently, they hold the position of Head of Design and Engineering at Teraco.
Lezar du Preez pursued their education at various institutions and obtained certifications to enhance their skills and knowledge.
Lezar completed a Master's degree in Data Center Leadership and Management from Anglia Ruskin University. This program lasted from 2020 to 2023.
Prior to that, they attended Middelburg Technical High School from 1998 to 2002, although no specific degree or field of study information was provided for this period.
Additionally, Lezar obtained several certifications to bolster their professional credentials. In 2009, they received a Wireman's License (Installation Electrician) from the Department of Labour. In 2011, they became a Certified Data Center Professional (CDCP) after completing a program offered by EPI. Finally, in 2015, Lezar earned the Accredited Tier Designer (ATD) certification from the Uptime Institute.
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Teraco – A Digital Realty Company
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As business transforms in the growing digital economy, Teraco’s carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centres provide a future-ready solution to all that today’s bandwidth-hungry applications require. Providing business’ with access to the digital edge, Teraco takes the enterprise to the on-ramp where clouds, networks, people and devices connect. Teraco forms a vital part of the African Internet’s backbone and is an essential part of the modern enterprise’s digital transformation strategy with its world-class data centre infrastructure and network dense ecosystems. Its ever-expanding ecosystems move Teraco beyond colocation and firmly establish it as an open marketplace for digital growth and innovation. Discovering new business partners, making strategic interconnection choices, on-ramping to your choice of cloud, and reaching new markets, Teraco provides a highly secure, flexible and resilient home for digital organisations. Teraco acknowledges legacy IT architecture can’t meet today’s digital demands. Tomorrow's success is built around the digital edge and rearchitecting the enterprise network and IT infrastructure. The data centre is purpose-built and operated to global best practice. With an absolute focus on data centre technology and infrastructure, Teraco offers all its clients secure, cost-effective, sustainable, scalable and resilient data centre services through its Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town facilities. Teraco is part-owned by Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) – offering clients a global data centre platform designed to enable digital businesses to scale within a highly connected data community across >285 data centres in 50 metros and 26 countries on six continents – and a consortium of private equity investors, including Berkshire Partners LLC and Permira.