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· Led the adoption of Ethernet for control level networks within the industrial automation industry. This has led to higher levels of interoperability among the competing suppliers to the benefit of the end user. · Recruited, hired and led, as Director Advanced Systems Technology, an elite advanced development team to create a software-centric, microprocessor-driven, process control system architecture. · Turned around a failing project in the Digital Systems Division of the leading supplier of real-time computer I/O equipment for process systems. · Developed, as a consultant, the product plan for a European-based multi-national manufacturer of networked control systems for the power, steel, and paper industries to merge their product lines with those of an acquired process controls manufacturer. · Established, as VP Marketing and Sales, the product strategy for a first-stage, venture-backed, start-up in the process control market. This strategy defined the company as an innovative manufacturer of high reliability distributed control systems · Persuaded, as Director Industry Marketing, the senior management of a late-stage, start-up, mini-computer company to abandon their strategy of converting acquired process control software to run on their hardware. Identified superior third-party software and convinced the supplier to modify it to run on their hardware platforms. · Assumed responsibility, as Marketing Product Manager, for developing marketing strategies, production evolution plans, materials and sales training programs for all software products of a Fortune 600 instrumentation and controls manufacturer. · Consulted for a Wall Street investment banker performing due diligence to validate proposed technology for installing a trans-Atlantic telecommunications cable and assessing the economic return on the sale of bandwidth in competition with other communications technologies.Specialties: Design of automation systems, time-critical data networks, control systems, and complex software systems. I also write books and conduct training classes in the areas of industrial networking.

Listed skills include Automation, Process Control, Instrumentation, Control Systems Design, and 46 others.