Jason Norado is Senior Project Manager at AVAIO Digital. He brings more than thirty years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating mission-critical digital infrastructure across the United States and globally.
Prior to joining AVAIO Digital, Jason served as Senior Regional Design Manager for Design and Construction at Digital Realty, one of the world's largest data center operators, where he led the delivery of over 500 MWs of data center capacity. Before that, he served as Vice President of Critical Facility Infrastructure at DataBank, where he oversaw a portfolio of 78 premium data centers across 30 U.S. markets, built the company's Building Engineering team from the ground up, and maintained five-nines uptime throughout his tenure.
Jason spent twenty-four years at Verizon and its predecessor companies—including WorldCom and MFS Communications, one of the nation's original CLECs—designing and constructing hyperscale data centers, secure government build-to-suit facilities, NOC centers, and large-scale telecommunications infrastructure. He began his career in 1994 as a construction Project Manager building Telco Central Offices and co-location facilities in every major U.S. market, and has been present at nearly every defining moment in the evolution of American digital infrastructure—from the CLEC boom of the mid-1990s to the earliest hyperscale data center deployments of the 2000s. Over thirteen years at Verizon, he scaled power density from 35 to over 200 watts per square foot. He has also served as a first responder for data center operations during every major natural disaster since 1994, including Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, and Harvey, as well as the events of September 11, 2001.
In his role at AVAIO Digital, Jason supports the company's global portfolio of large-scale, AI-ready data center campus developments, bringing deep operational and construction expertise to AVAIO's end-to-end development model.
Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Negotiations from Seton Hall University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
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