David Essi III
Engineering Director, Controls & Software at UNIPOWER - Powering Technology- Claim this Profile
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William Colley
Dave is good at learning the strengths and weaknesses of the members of his team. He then deploys those team members in the most effective way to get the project done. Dave knows how to manage engineering professionals, i.e. he points them in the directions he needs them to go and lets them get on with it. His monitoring of progress is quick, informal, and effective. He gets the information his managers need without constantly interrupting his team members' work. He's clearly read DeMarco and Lister and taken it to heart. Dave insures that his team members have the blocks of uninterrupted time that they need to do amazing things. Dave is a good listener. When a team member has an idea about how to handle some particular aspect of a project, Dave will consider the idea and, if it fits into the project, put it into the project. He sets ego aside and pulls ideas from the entire team into the project. That gets him team member buy-in -- lots of it. Recently, Dave has become a firmware process guy, but I believe that he has the experience to use those techniques without them becoming a goal in and of themselves. I wish my current management did that. Give Dave a reasonably clear direction to take his team and he'll take them there for you. Dave is the best manager I've ever worked for. Period. We did some incredible things together at Lorain Products (now a part of Emerson). See Lorain Power System in the 2001-2004 time frame, for example.
Michael Mott
I had the pleasure of working for Dave while at two different companies - Cisco and Emerson. While working for him at Cisco, he did a great job of coming up to speed quickly and being a valuable contributer to the team. I liked that fact that he has a very good understanding of software development and what goes in to creating quality code. This made our projects at both Emerson and Cisco go much smoother and finish successfully.
William Colley
Dave is good at learning the strengths and weaknesses of the members of his team. He then deploys those team members in the most effective way to get the project done. Dave knows how to manage engineering professionals, i.e. he points them in the directions he needs them to go and lets them get on with it. His monitoring of progress is quick, informal, and effective. He gets the information his managers need without constantly interrupting his team members' work. He's clearly read DeMarco and Lister and taken it to heart. Dave insures that his team members have the blocks of uninterrupted time that they need to do amazing things. Dave is a good listener. When a team member has an idea about how to handle some particular aspect of a project, Dave will consider the idea and, if it fits into the project, put it into the project. He sets ego aside and pulls ideas from the entire team into the project. That gets him team member buy-in -- lots of it. Recently, Dave has become a firmware process guy, but I believe that he has the experience to use those techniques without them becoming a goal in and of themselves. I wish my current management did that. Give Dave a reasonably clear direction to take his team and he'll take them there for you. Dave is the best manager I've ever worked for. Period. We did some incredible things together at Lorain Products (now a part of Emerson). See Lorain Power System in the 2001-2004 time frame, for example.
Michael Mott
I had the pleasure of working for Dave while at two different companies - Cisco and Emerson. While working for him at Cisco, he did a great job of coming up to speed quickly and being a valuable contributer to the team. I liked that fact that he has a very good understanding of software development and what goes in to creating quality code. This made our projects at both Emerson and Cisco go much smoother and finish successfully.
William Colley
Dave is good at learning the strengths and weaknesses of the members of his team. He then deploys those team members in the most effective way to get the project done. Dave knows how to manage engineering professionals, i.e. he points them in the directions he needs them to go and lets them get on with it. His monitoring of progress is quick, informal, and effective. He gets the information his managers need without constantly interrupting his team members' work. He's clearly read DeMarco and Lister and taken it to heart. Dave insures that his team members have the blocks of uninterrupted time that they need to do amazing things. Dave is a good listener. When a team member has an idea about how to handle some particular aspect of a project, Dave will consider the idea and, if it fits into the project, put it into the project. He sets ego aside and pulls ideas from the entire team into the project. That gets him team member buy-in -- lots of it. Recently, Dave has become a firmware process guy, but I believe that he has the experience to use those techniques without them becoming a goal in and of themselves. I wish my current management did that. Give Dave a reasonably clear direction to take his team and he'll take them there for you. Dave is the best manager I've ever worked for. Period. We did some incredible things together at Lorain Products (now a part of Emerson). See Lorain Power System in the 2001-2004 time frame, for example.
Michael Mott
I had the pleasure of working for Dave while at two different companies - Cisco and Emerson. While working for him at Cisco, he did a great job of coming up to speed quickly and being a valuable contributer to the team. I liked that fact that he has a very good understanding of software development and what goes in to creating quality code. This made our projects at both Emerson and Cisco go much smoother and finish successfully.
William Colley
Dave is good at learning the strengths and weaknesses of the members of his team. He then deploys those team members in the most effective way to get the project done. Dave knows how to manage engineering professionals, i.e. he points them in the directions he needs them to go and lets them get on with it. His monitoring of progress is quick, informal, and effective. He gets the information his managers need without constantly interrupting his team members' work. He's clearly read DeMarco and Lister and taken it to heart. Dave insures that his team members have the blocks of uninterrupted time that they need to do amazing things. Dave is a good listener. When a team member has an idea about how to handle some particular aspect of a project, Dave will consider the idea and, if it fits into the project, put it into the project. He sets ego aside and pulls ideas from the entire team into the project. That gets him team member buy-in -- lots of it. Recently, Dave has become a firmware process guy, but I believe that he has the experience to use those techniques without them becoming a goal in and of themselves. I wish my current management did that. Give Dave a reasonably clear direction to take his team and he'll take them there for you. Dave is the best manager I've ever worked for. Period. We did some incredible things together at Lorain Products (now a part of Emerson). See Lorain Power System in the 2001-2004 time frame, for example.
Michael Mott
I had the pleasure of working for Dave while at two different companies - Cisco and Emerson. While working for him at Cisco, he did a great job of coming up to speed quickly and being a valuable contributer to the team. I liked that fact that he has a very good understanding of software development and what goes in to creating quality code. This made our projects at both Emerson and Cisco go much smoother and finish successfully.
Experience
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UNIPOWER - Powering Technology
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United States
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Engineering Director, Controls & Software
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Oct 2015 - Aug 2017
• Within first month, socialized NG controller strategy suitable to replace three legacy product lines • Led cross-functional team effort to define Standard Operating Procedure for new ECO Process • Proposed novel IoT offering using ThingWorx and led effort to prototype proof-of-concept • Within first month, socialized NG controller strategy suitable to replace three legacy product lines • Led cross-functional team effort to define Standard Operating Procedure for new ECO Process • Proposed novel IoT offering using ThingWorx and led effort to prototype proof-of-concept
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Emerson Network Power
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United States
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Principal Engineer - Control Systems Architect
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Oct 2011 - Mar 2015
Served on newly formed team chartered to introduce NG technology and processes into controller development. • Envisioned four (4) NG architectures, allowing retrofitting of DC plants having disparate CAN sub-system. • Specified, tested and managed 4 software releases, modernizing web UI for 20-year old legacy CPU. Used Sparx Enterprise Architect (EA) for requirements management & wireframe prototyping. • Eliminated complex setup by designing “Self-Calibrating Backup Capacity Alarm”… Show more Served on newly formed team chartered to introduce NG technology and processes into controller development. • Envisioned four (4) NG architectures, allowing retrofitting of DC plants having disparate CAN sub-system. • Specified, tested and managed 4 software releases, modernizing web UI for 20-year old legacy CPU. Used Sparx Enterprise Architect (EA) for requirements management & wireframe prototyping. • Eliminated complex setup by designing “Self-Calibrating Backup Capacity Alarm” (US9347999B2). Used Sparx EA to generate code directly from algorithm state-machine. • Evaluated ICONIX lightweight UML development methodology in relation to stage-gate NPD process. Show less Served on newly formed team chartered to introduce NG technology and processes into controller development. • Envisioned four (4) NG architectures, allowing retrofitting of DC plants having disparate CAN sub-system. • Specified, tested and managed 4 software releases, modernizing web UI for 20-year old legacy CPU. Used Sparx Enterprise Architect (EA) for requirements management & wireframe prototyping. • Eliminated complex setup by designing “Self-Calibrating Backup Capacity Alarm”… Show more Served on newly formed team chartered to introduce NG technology and processes into controller development. • Envisioned four (4) NG architectures, allowing retrofitting of DC plants having disparate CAN sub-system. • Specified, tested and managed 4 software releases, modernizing web UI for 20-year old legacy CPU. Used Sparx Enterprise Architect (EA) for requirements management & wireframe prototyping. • Eliminated complex setup by designing “Self-Calibrating Backup Capacity Alarm” (US9347999B2). Used Sparx EA to generate code directly from algorithm state-machine. • Evaluated ICONIX lightweight UML development methodology in relation to stage-gate NPD process. Show less
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Cisco
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Manager, Software Development
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Mar 2010 - Aug 2011
Directed team of 8 software engineers porting and sustaining production BL and IOS images for all wireless access points. Prioritized changes daily according to customer-found defects and support necessary to remove blockers in risk-laden, aggressive (50% confidence) schedule. • Achieved on-time bring-up of PPC motherboard, despite critical bug in new silicon, by shifting tasks. • Renegotiated entrance criteria with Test team and crashed unit test effort, remaining on schedule. •… Show more Directed team of 8 software engineers porting and sustaining production BL and IOS images for all wireless access points. Prioritized changes daily according to customer-found defects and support necessary to remove blockers in risk-laden, aggressive (50% confidence) schedule. • Achieved on-time bring-up of PPC motherboard, despite critical bug in new silicon, by shifting tasks. • Renegotiated entrance criteria with Test team and crashed unit test effort, remaining on schedule. • Created MS-Project custom views, saving time and simplifying analysis of project’s critical path. Show less Directed team of 8 software engineers porting and sustaining production BL and IOS images for all wireless access points. Prioritized changes daily according to customer-found defects and support necessary to remove blockers in risk-laden, aggressive (50% confidence) schedule. • Achieved on-time bring-up of PPC motherboard, despite critical bug in new silicon, by shifting tasks. • Renegotiated entrance criteria with Test team and crashed unit test effort, remaining on schedule. •… Show more Directed team of 8 software engineers porting and sustaining production BL and IOS images for all wireless access points. Prioritized changes daily according to customer-found defects and support necessary to remove blockers in risk-laden, aggressive (50% confidence) schedule. • Achieved on-time bring-up of PPC motherboard, despite critical bug in new silicon, by shifting tasks. • Renegotiated entrance criteria with Test team and crashed unit test effort, remaining on schedule. • Created MS-Project custom views, saving time and simplifying analysis of project’s critical path. Show less
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Emerson Network Power
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United States
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Manager, Controls and Software Development
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Feb 2004 - Mar 2010
Transitioned role of NA design staff into Regional Configuration team to integrate global building blocks. Served as Technical Chair and Emcee for Annual Customer Conference for 7 years. • Drove product roadmap strategy by performing gap analysis between global and NA requirements. • Led NG platform development based on 548x ColdFire, using C++ and structured object design. • Underwent CMMI assessment by Software Center of Excellence, achieving favorable assessment. • Enhanced… Show more Transitioned role of NA design staff into Regional Configuration team to integrate global building blocks. Served as Technical Chair and Emcee for Annual Customer Conference for 7 years. • Drove product roadmap strategy by performing gap analysis between global and NA requirements. • Led NG platform development based on 548x ColdFire, using C++ and structured object design. • Underwent CMMI assessment by Software Center of Excellence, achieving favorable assessment. • Enhanced legacy products with 25 software releases on 5 product lines in 2 years. Show less Transitioned role of NA design staff into Regional Configuration team to integrate global building blocks. Served as Technical Chair and Emcee for Annual Customer Conference for 7 years. • Drove product roadmap strategy by performing gap analysis between global and NA requirements. • Led NG platform development based on 548x ColdFire, using C++ and structured object design. • Underwent CMMI assessment by Software Center of Excellence, achieving favorable assessment. • Enhanced… Show more Transitioned role of NA design staff into Regional Configuration team to integrate global building blocks. Served as Technical Chair and Emcee for Annual Customer Conference for 7 years. • Drove product roadmap strategy by performing gap analysis between global and NA requirements. • Led NG platform development based on 548x ColdFire, using C++ and structured object design. • Underwent CMMI assessment by Software Center of Excellence, achieving favorable assessment. • Enhanced legacy products with 25 software releases on 5 product lines in 2 years. Show less
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Engineering Manager - Controls and Software Development
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2001 - 2004
Program Manager for 500 KW DC multi-bay power system with CAN control system and advanced controller design based upon 528x ColdFire and MQX RTOS. • Applied 2-stage RFP/RFQ approach with 11 CPU vendors, leading to selection of final vendor. • Socialized value of patent and negotiated IP licensing, resulting in first battery fuel gauge feature.
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Director Product Management
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2000 - 2001
Responded to RFPs and RFQs from telecommunications firms such as AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. • Championed recall effort for product with faulty memory that could cause power system shutdowns. • Envisioned streamline effort for Engineering by moving controller and monitor to common platform.
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Engineering Director - Controls and Technology Development
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1998 - 2000
Directed 25 Mechanical, Electrical and Software Engineers while outsourcing Windows development. Program Manager for advanced 3-phase rectifier research and development project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. • Conceived product adaptation for distributed “Battery Monitoring System,” (US Patent 6,498,491) offering high-precision float current sensors for array of battery plants. • Secured $1.5M SNMP monitoring project with Metricom using 1-page proposal.
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Engineering Manager - Monitoring & Software
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Jul 1992 - 1998
Managed staff of ten electrical/firmware engineers including two Windows programmers • Established ISO software traceability; instituted software configuration mgt & independent testing • Coded C++ objects using inheritance and polymorphism for I/O subsystem of new monitor
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Electrical Engineer / Group Leader – Monitoring & Software
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Feb 1984 - Jun 1992
• Designed STD surface mount 68000 CPU card for monitoring product; in production for 15yrs • Developed application software, I/O drivers and cooperative task switcher for above CPU • Developed DOS Polling Software and scripting language to collect data from remote CPUs
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Education
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Case Western Reserve University
BS, Electrical Engineering & Applied Physics
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