Experience

IntelliFlux Controls

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

• Vice President of Technology

  • Jan 2022 - Present

• Director Of Software Development

  • Jan 2019 - Jan 2022

  Creating departmental organizational structure for software/product development and delivery. Selecting appropriate SDLCs for various projects (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid). Creating formal processes for determining product feature updates and release cycles. Established a product steering committee composed of members representing various affected departments within the organization to drive product development toward company-wide long term goals.Inventory supply chain management. Determining appropriate hardware/OS/software version combinations to meet product needs. Creating product delivery pipelines for hardware setup and software customization to reduce order-to-delivery times.Overseeing PLC code review and modification process, resulting in a streamlined modification process for Allen-Bradley based systems that reduced order-to-delivery times. Overseeing projects related to maintenance and continuous development of Linux-based network administration for a globally distributed secure communication networks. Managing the development and implementation of a RESTful API for product data and internal tooling.Designing and managing development of various tools to reduce setup and customization time needed to deliver product, including web based software customization tools, shell/bash scripts, python scripting and API endpoint structures. Identifying, on-boarding and training new team members on product development and delivery practices.Achievement: Identified key pain points in installation and customization process, adjusted the process flow definition and coordinated the delivery of several projects to reduce the order-to-delivery time for product installs. Show less

• Sr Software Engineer, AI / ML

  • Sep 2017 - Jan 2019

  Designing and developing a highly scalable machine-learning driven industrial decision automation framework. Utilizing various data analytics algorithms to create data pipelines for transforming historical industrial process data into datasets suitable for supervised machine-learning applications. Covariance and correlation analysis, principal component analysis, logistic & linear regression, neural networks for classification and regression. Creating clear internal communications and flow diagrams to communicate complex data transformations and software logic. Developing flexible, customer facing data visualization interfaces for displaying performance and historical data about water treatment systems behavior. Installing and configuring networked industrial control equipment in water treatment facilities.Achievement: Implemented a generalized machine-learning based process optimization and decision automation framework to reduce water consumption on a global scale for municipalities and Fortune 500 companies by ~30%. Show less



Perfect Abstractions LLC

• United States
• Computer and Network Security
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Ignition Project Developer

  • Mar 2017 - Aug 2017

  Ignition Module development in Java and Eclipse, exposing advanced third-party Java libraries to Ignition’s Jython scripting interface. Utilizing Maven dependencies, archetypes and lifecycle. Creating web based content, including articles and videos, related to comparing and demonstrating Ignition Modules and advanced features of Ignition. Determining project requirements, estimating project complexity, setting and adhering to deadlines. Developing HMI screens for automotive die casting machines. Achievement: Developed a module for Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform that adds support for scientific 3D plotting and mathematics. Featured on Ignition's website. Show less



Automation Services, LLC

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

• HMI / SCADA Engineer

  • Jan 2016 - Aug 2017

  Meeting with clients to assess their needs, and address technical concerns related to software and architecture. Designing and developing functional and aesthetically appealing HMI screens in Ignition. Configuring tag historian system and displays. Configuring controls for common Wastewater Treatment processes. Creating dynamic user-friendly Templates to allow non-technical team members to quickly bind tags and properties. Developing recipe management systems in Python for batch material manufacturing processes. Analyzing OWG separator data to improve cycle times. Reverse engineering FactoryTalk control screens. On-site debugging and system commissioning. Training operators in use of HMI screens. Training new team members to have comparable skills, managing assignments for junior team members. Achievement: Developed operations-critical HMI control screens to a federally regulated wastewater treatment facility. Show less



Gravemind Studios

• Netherlands
• Cosmetics

• Lead Developer

  • Jan 2015 - Aug 2017

  Designing and developing gameplay, interface, and data storage/retrieval systems in C# and C++. Develop and optimize systems to reduce ALU and GPU calls, manage stack/heap memory allocation. Determine client project requirements and create SOW / software design documents. Set and adhere to deadlines and project budgets. Maintain clear documentation and version control. Communicate and demonstrate progress along the development lifecycle. Design and implement alternative control systems utilizing micro-controllers, sensor modules, biosensors and accessory hardware. Achievement: Combined Virtual Reality and Biometrics to create an EEG powered telekinetic VR experience that logs brain activity responses to objects, serializes them in XML and allows indexing of samples by metadata tags to identify neural responses to objects with specific properties. Show less