Discipline
Systems Architecture
Industrial Automation / Industry 4.0
I move plants from closed, legacy control into open, unified, data-driven operations. Twenty-five years of SCADA architecture, IIoT integration, and Industry 4.0 transformation across energy, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure.
The approach
I design and deliver systems that unify diverse technologies into one coherent operation. The goal is never a single vendor stack. It is an open architecture that scales, integrates with what comes next, and turns plant data into decisions. Below is what I bring to companies stepping into Industry 4.0.
Unified Namespace, MQTT and Sparkplug B, and edge-to-cloud pipelines that connect existing control systems to modern platforms instead of replacing them wholesale.
Architectures that streamline operations across multiple sites, surface actionable insight, and stay maintainable as the plant and the technology evolve.
Programs led in oil and gas, water and wastewater, manufacturing, and aerospace, adapting to each sector's operational and regulatory reality.
Multidisciplinary teams kept aligned from design through commissioning, delivering in high-stakes environments without losing the thread.
Capabilities
From the firmware on the edge device to the namespace in the cloud, the work spans every layer that a modern industrial operation depends on.
Control system design, SCADA architecture, and HMI configuration across Ignition, Wonderware, iFIX, OASyS, and CygNet.
MQTT and Sparkplug B, broker design and evaluation, Unified Namespace, and edge-to-cloud data pipelines.
Custom industrial software, OPC server drivers, web and Windows services, plus ML, AI, and Azure IoT solutions.
Process safety and loop design, instrumentation, control-room management schemes, and Unified Namespace development.
Electrical and electronics design, embedded circuit design, PCB layout, and firmware development.
Network infrastructure design, IEC 62443 and zero-trust OT, and detailed security assessments.
Featured work
The flagship platform I lead at LTIMindtree: an accelerator that migrates legacy CygNet SCADA to open Ignition and a Unified Namespace, compressing months of manual conversion into a guided, repeatable workflow.
Replatformed legacy midstream control onto an open Ignition and Unified Namespace architecture spanning multiple basins, with CygNet retained as a data source rather than the ceiling.
Bridged thousands of field assets to the cloud over MQTT and Sparkplug B, unifying telemetry into a single namespace feeding analytics, historians, and operations dashboards.
Working stack
Platforms, hardware, and protocols I work with directly, organized the way an engineer reads a spec sheet.
Selected experience
Services
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Whether you are upgrading legacy systems or standing up a unified, data-driven operation from the edge up, I bring the expertise to make it happen. Tell me what you are working on.
justin@justindean.io