Experience

Cutsforth Inc.

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Special Projects

  • Sep 2022 - Present



SparkCognition

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer, Predictive Maintenance

  • Jul 2017 - Aug 2022

  Responsible for driving the vision as well as strategic and tactical planning of sustainable product and service offering in the area of Predictive Maintenance and IIoT, with the focus on the SparkPredict product line. Leading successful implementation of AI solutions for large industrial clients in power generation, utilities, oil and gas, and manufacturing. Responsible for driving the vision as well as strategic and tactical planning of sustainable product and service offering in the area of Predictive Maintenance and IIoT, with the focus on the SparkPredict product line. Leading successful implementation of AI solutions for large industrial clients in power generation, utilities, oil and gas, and manufacturing.



NextEra Energy, Inc.

• United States
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager, Fleet Performance & Diagnostics

  • Jan 2010 - Jun 2017

  Director/GM level position responsible for driving new technology and daily operations of NextEra’s Fleet Performance and Diagnostic Center (FPDC) spanning all of NextEra’s generation equipment including combined-cycle, fossil, hydro, nuclear, wind, solar, and battery storage (over 120 sites, 40GW) and consisting of the Monitoring and Diagnostics team, Vibration Center of Excellence, and of the Renewables Remote Operations team (~40 people). Established and drove the vision of a world class operation by implementing standards of quality and driving continuous improvement methodology to enhance quality of monitoring and speed of wind turbine operation and resets. Drove and managed several facility redesigns and expansions resulting in a modern, world-class, monitoring and operations center. Introduced several key new technologies, e.g., adaptive advanced pattern recognition, alarm management with integrated workflows, machine learning, and natural language processing. Lead FPDC team to deliver cost avoidance savings of over $18MM/year.



GE Power

• United States
• Electric Power Generation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager, T&D Engineering Product Support

  • Oct 2007 - Jan 2010

  Supervising life cycle support for GE T&D product lines: power meters, substation automation products, monitoring sensors, Smart Grid. Hiring and coaching of a team of electronics, firmware, and mechanical product support engineers, conducting their performance evaluation, and supervising their day-to-day activities at three locations in US and Canada. Supervising life cycle support for GE T&D product lines: power meters, substation automation products, monitoring sensors, Smart Grid. Hiring and coaching of a team of electronics, firmware, and mechanical product support engineers, conducting their performance evaluation, and supervising their day-to-day activities at three locations in US and Canada.



GE Power

• United States
• Electric Power Generation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Black Belt, Lean Six Sigma

  • 2005 - 2007

  Certified Black-Belt, mentored Green-Belt projects, actively participated in Lean Workouts. Developed a complete process model of one of the GE Gas Turbine Service Centers and the GE M&D Center, performed analysis and optimization to determine equipment and staffing bottlenecks.

• Program Manager, Monitoring & Diagnostics - New Product Introduction

  • 2000 - 2005

  Managed introduction of new technologies in the field of remote condition monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics as principal engineer and program manager. Lead design, development, testing, and implementation of new systems, algorithms, processes, and software tools. Introduced new Artificial Intelligence and signal processing technologies to GE Energy Services, e.g.: 1st and 2nd Generation Condition Assessment Systems, Case-Based Reasoning system for gas-turbine diagnostics and prognostics, remote wind turbine fault auto-reset system, remote T&D asset management system. Established and lead research and development cooperation with Georgia Tech in the field of Artificial Intelligence and expert systems.

• Technical Leader/Supervisor, M&D Center

  • 1999 - 2000

  Supervised all the operational aspects of the team of 26 monitoring specialists in 24x7 operation. Supervised analysis of difficult diagnostic cases, consulted with and performed numerous studies of the Gas Turbine system response to various operational stimuli. Provided multiple training sessions on the use of various monitoring and diagnostic processes and algorithms. Delivered technical presentations at international and domestic user conferences.



GE Research

• United States
• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• R&D Engineer

  • 1997 - 1999

  Performed knowledge engineering and developed a pilot vibro-acoustic remote condition monitoring system for the GE locomotives. Organized and lead several field trips to acquire diagnostic and reliability data. Identified hardware requirements, and developed software and hardware means of detecting targeted failure modes. Co-developed signal processing indicators for health assessment of aircraft jet engines. Performed knowledge engineering and developed a pilot vibro-acoustic remote condition monitoring system for the GE locomotives. Organized and lead several field trips to acquire diagnostic and reliability data. Identified hardware requirements, and developed software and hardware means of detecting targeted failure modes. Co-developed signal processing indicators for health assessment of aircraft jet engines.