Controls Engineer · Automation Software Developer
I design control architectures, write PLC and firmware logic, integrate robots, vision, motion, sensors, and data systems, then commission and optimize them into reliable equipment customers can trust.
The whole system
My strongest work happens where disciplines meet: PLC logic, robotics, machine vision, motion, firmware, industrial communication, process data, interfaces, and documentation. I determine how the pieces should work together, get them communicating, test them on hardware, and refine the system until it is reliable and easier to support.
About
I solve difficult automation problems through software and integration. I design systems end-to-end, connect the pieces, and optimize them until they just work.
I am a controls engineer with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. I enjoy designing automation architectures, writing the underlying logic, integrating equipment, commissioning machines, and finding practical ways to improve reliability, cycle time, diagnostics, and usability.
My work extends beyond basic machine control. I develop firmware, integrate robots and vision systems, capture production and diagnostic data, create traceability outputs, produce technical documentation, and design interfaces that make complex systems easier to understand.
When a project begins with incomplete information, I do not wait for a perfect answer. I develop multiple workable solutions, compare their tradeoffs, and present a practical path forward.
Core Expertise
The value is not any one tool in isolation. It is the ability to combine controls, motion, vision, software, data, and documentation into one supportable system.
Architecting machine behavior from operating modes and sequences through commissioning, recovery, and optimization.
Coordinating robot paths, motion profiles, servo behavior, frames, and recovery into reliable machine sequences.
Turning camera, lighting, calibration, and identification data into dependable inspection and robot-guidance decisions.
Defining clear interfaces so controllers, devices, test equipment, and software exchange useful commands and results.
Applying computer-science fundamentals to embedded control, test tooling, maintainable code, and hardware-aware software.
Instrumenting equipment so operators and engineering teams can see quality, timing, faults, and test evidence clearly.
Making technical systems easier to operate, support, explain, and present through clear information design.
Exploring unfamiliar tools through physical prototypes, CAD, embedded experiments, and practical iteration.
Featured Projects
Firmware reliability, precision robot guidance, and rapid production-line problem solving show how I work across software, hardware, integration, and commissioning.
Firmware, motion-control, diagnostics, and validation
Developed and refined firmware for a multi-axis automated test system, improving motion coordination, torque-data integrity, serial reporting, diagnostics, and fault recovery.
Robot and vision integration, calibration, and commissioning
Integrated vision, robotics, calibration, and dynamic coordinate correction to place adhesive-backed discs accurately across a 198-position nonrectangular battery assembly.
System architecture, sensing, controls, and commissioning
Designed and commissioned an in-motion bottle-fill verification system under a one-week deadline, using available sensors to solve a measurement problem the team had not previously implemented.
Problem-Solving Highlight
A multi-robot assembly system inserted a spring through a narrow shoe and hooked it into a rail, but the machine could not always confirm whether the spring had hooked correctly.
I added sensing at the pneumatic mechanism that held the rail in position. The sensor state let the controls logic infer whether the hook had succeeded. When it had not, the robot discarded the failed spring, acquired another, and retried the operation automatically.
Engineering Process
My goal is not simply to make a sequence run once. I want to build a system that behaves predictably, recovers intelligently, produces useful information, and continues to make sense to the people supporting it later.
Understand what the customer, operator, and production process need, not merely what components were specified.
Determine controller responsibilities, states, interfaces, communication paths, recovery behavior, and data flow.
When information is incomplete, create multiple solutions, compare tradeoffs, and present a practical recommendation.
Get devices communicating, test behavior on real equipment, and resolve the difference between theoretical and actual machine behavior.
Use timing, diagnostics, test data, and traceability records to locate bottlenecks and improvement opportunities, including work that can run concurrently.
Leave understandable code, useful diagnostics, clear manuals, and a system that is easier to troubleshoot and maintain.
Web, Design, and Documentation
I combine engineering with visual communication and web development. That means I can structure complicated technical information, create usable interfaces, write practical manuals, and present industrial capabilities clearly.
An industrial services website presenting machine vision integration, CNC machining, sorting and assembly, traceability, and related production capabilities.
Designed and built the website end-to-end, including site organization, visual design, written content, technical service presentation, documentation-oriented resources, and calls to action.
A service website organizing building systems, technical services, roadside monitoring, infrastructure, and construction support into clear customer pathways.
Designed and built the website end-to-end, including information architecture, visual design, written content, service organization, and contact paths.
Outside the Factory Floor
Outside of production automation, I enjoy building with Arduinos, designing parts in CAD, 3D printing prototypes, and creating websites and visual interfaces. These projects let me explore new tools quickly and often lead to ideas I can apply to industrial systems.
Contact
I am interested in controls-engineering opportunities involving system architecture, PLC development, robotics, vision, motion, device integration, commissioning, production data, and technically challenging automation.
I also take on select website, documentation, interface, and technical prototyping projects.