I am an automation engineering professional with a custom systems integration and MRO background for OEM production equipment installations at client or customer sites.
Starting with a systems integrator in 1992, working in the panel shop, and on field installation/service crews, moving on to design engineering. I’ve designed systems ranging from single machine applications with push button panels to fully integrated production lines with networked controllers and HMI/SCADA stations running advanced touchscreens.
I have developed, customized, and delivered technology training, both academically at the college level and professionally, for engineering technicians up through corporate managers in the C-suite. I have been a concept/vision leader for grants awarded in excess of $24M. Co-Project Manager (Operations/Engineering part) to develop a Mission Critical Operations curriculum to support workforce development for near continuous uptime of production, support, utility, and infrastructure technology systems.
I have a personal interest in advancing the state of the art in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and how it meshes with Assistive Technology (AT) for the impaired computer user primarily and then how those concepts can be extended to the user experience (UX) technology for the general population. As I Sci-Fi junkie, I’m also fascinated by the concepts of cybernetics and artificial intelligence (AI) and how they can be used to make our lives easier and more productive, whether that be in assisting in how we live, learn, work, or play.
What I do: Make technology do my bidding for the good of those around me.
What tools I use: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Internet of Things (IoT)*
Why I do this: I love it! It’s fun to see Sci-Fi become Sci-Fact!
*For the Buzzword bingo bonus points. I’ve been doing this since before I knew what IoT was. We just called it “communications” back then.