Process Insights acquired the Schneider Electric Process Analyzers business in 2022

I was promoted to this position from EVP, Sales & Marketing. As General Manager of the Process Analyzers line of business, I am responsible for all activities at the Upland CA site which include manufacturing operations, quality, production planning and procurement, program and projects engineering, R&D, applications engineering and product management. In addition, I have dotted line responsibilities including finance and accounting as well as sales and marketing activities which are shared activities within the LoB. During my tenure as GM, I have specifically overseen the integration of my former business (AIT) which was acquired by Schneider Electric in 2016. This included the integration of sales and marketing operations, the legal entity merger of the AIT corporation to Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. and the migration of Microsoft NAV Dynamics to the SAP ERP platform. Other key successes included leading the team that developed the ISA 2019 Product of the Year, the MGA 1200CS Process Mass Spectrometer. In addition, during this time we finalized the development of another new product, the FXI Series 7 Process GC and introduced that to the market.Process Analyzers is organized within the Process Analyzers and Instrumentation Line of Business that is managed under the Process Automation division within Schneider Electric. Our key products include FTIR/FT-NIR, Mass Spectrometers, Gas Chromatographs and Advanced Inferential Analyzers. Our technologies are multi-component and multi-stream analyzers capable of providing detailed chemical composition and physical property analysis of refining, petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical, biotech and environmental processes. Key applications include analysis of gasoline and diesel blending streams, ethylene cracking processes, LNG, microbial fermentation, blast furnace top gas and ambient and stack air analysis.

Schneider Electric Process Analyzers (formerly Applied Instrument Technologies, Inc. (AIT)) is a manufacturer of advanced multi-component process analyzers. We provide on-line real-time analytical technologies including:-- FTIR-- Process Mass Spectrometry-- Gas Chromatography-- NIR-- Raman-- Sample Conditioning Systems-- Chemometric ModelingOur products optimize industrial processes in the refining, biofuels, petrochemical, fuel cell, chemical, steel and pharmaceutical/biotechnology sectors.At Schneider Electric I was responsible for the global sales and marketing efforts along with integrating the AIT business into the Schneider Electric Process Automation organization. I was a founding partner of Applied Instrument Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer of process analyzers that was established in October 2010 through an asset sale of various process analyzer technologies owned by United Technologies Corporation, Hamilton Sundstrand division. Operated by myself and another managing partner, the business was set up with financing from an angel investor in the semiconductor tooling space. Schneider Electric acquired Applied Instrument Technologies, Inc (AIT) in October 2016 and subsequently converted the California Subchapter S Corp and merged it into the Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. legal entity, thus dissolving the Applied Instrument Technologies, Inc. corporation. When my partner and myself started up AIT as a new corporation in 2010, this required constructing and establishing a new manufacturing facility (29K SF) in Upland CA, implementing a new NAV Dynamics ERP to manage manufacturing and accounting operations, building out a gas phase test facility operations with local fire department permitting, creating an engineering vault leveraging ProductCenter and creating a CRM system leveraging Salesforce.com. When we sold in 2016, we analyzers in 7 of the 10 largest US refineries and 8 out of 10 of the largest US pharma companies.

I managed the Solar Photovoltaic and geothermal marketing segment for Siemens Industry Inc. (SII) in the southwest US region. SII manufactures solar PV inverters (SINVERT) and MV balance of plant for utility grade solar PV plants. SII also manufactures technologies for the geothermal flash steam and binary power plants including generators, motors, MV & LV drives, DCS systems, MV & LV circuit protection, PLCs and instrumentation. I left this position for an exciting new entrepreneurial opportunity to become a business partner and create a process analyzer company from the ground up that was successfully established and sold to Schneider Electric.

I was promoted from the Hamilton Sundstrand division and relocated to UTC's South Windsor operation. I mainly managed the BD activities for UTC's renewable energy division through 80% travel to Europe to put several fuel cell distributed generation power projects into Transport for London, Sainsburys, NRW.Clean energy solutions using fuel cells, geothermal, solar and CHP/CCHP power systems.Manage strategic development and channel partner development.

United Technologies Corporation, Hamilton Sundstrand division (now Collins Aerospace/ Raytheon Technologies) manufactures a variety of technologies ranging from Concentrated Solar Power systems, auxiliary power units, and automation equipment for refining, natural gas, petrochemical and utility plants. Hamilton Sunderland operated the Applied Instrument Technologies (AIT) business from 2001-2010. Orbital Sciences operated the Applied Instrument Technologies (AIT) business from 1995-2001 and their Pomona operation was acquired by United Technologies Hamilton Sundstrand Division in 2001. Prior to that Perkin Elmer corporation operated and developed some of the analyzer technology.

I was regional sales engineer for the Construction Products chemicals division which provided chemicals for the concrete industry and the corrosion resistant building products industry.

I was a project engineer, first starting out in the Cambridge headquarters and moving to the Chicago manufacturing facility. I focused on project engineering for construction chemicals. I patented a system to dispense fibers into a concrete mixer and developed a prototype remote tank level monitoring system that leveraged and early modem and custom programmed DOS interface.

At DoAll, I was the Product Manager for their high pressure Waterjet Cutting machine tool which leveraged 60,000 psi water mixed with a garnet to CNC cut various materials from metal to glass to plastic. I programmed the Fanuc CNC controller and maintained the 60,000 psi hydraulic system.