Provides industrial (OT) networking consulting, design, solution architecture, configuration, training, proof-of-concept testing, and more for end-users, system integrators, and software and hardware vendors. Serves a wide range of industries, including Water/Wastewater, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Oil & Gas, Chemical, Transportation, and Utilities.

• As sales engineer: Spearheaded efforts to win new, large, repeat customers and expand the footprint in existing accounts. Worked alongside Account Managers, Business Development Managers, and served as account manager for numerous house accounts. • As department head: Established application engineering department, including organization processes, standards, and personnel reviews. Hired and managed four application engineers while acting as lead SME for six field network engineers.• As “linecard gatekeeper”: Continually evaluated and expanded hardware, software, and services offerings to add constantly evolving, best-of-breed market solutions while anticipating customer needs.• As vendor technical interface: Managed technical relationships with numerous vendors to provide regular feedback and solve unique customer needs. Served on multiple vendor advisory councils. • As subject matter expert: Developed and delivered multi-day Industrial Ethernet course to hundreds of OT and IT personnel. Presented to wide range of customers, including entire automation staff of a major snack food company, majority of automation specialists at a rapidly-growing system integrator, entire sales engineering staff of a major cellular hardware vendor, HQ staff at a leading global automation vendor, and a group of rocket scientists.• As industry expert: Created highly-trafficked networking solutions blog as a customer resource and lead generator.• As internal IT lead: Managed all company-wide IT needs, including PCs, anti-virus, servers, printers, switches, routers, firewalls, wireless, phones, PBX, ISPs, AV, and Building Access Control.

• Performed Instrumentation & Controls design, drafting, and construction services for multiple, complex municipal projects.• Built static and dynamic HMI graphics and PLC programs for the control of water treatment and distribution. • Executed startup services at multiple customer sites for HMI and PLC applications.• Developed product, service, and testing specifications based on research of equipment (PLCs, networking, radio communication) and instruments.• Reviewed contractors’ submittals to ensure delivery of a completed and quality system to the client.