About
Twenty-five years across the full industrial stack, from circuit boards and firmware to enterprise SCADA and the Unified Namespace. My through-line has stayed the same: treat legacy control as a data source, not an architectural ceiling.
I am an industrial automation and IIoT systems architect with deep roots in CygNet SCADA, Wonderware and AVEVA, and Ignition, built across oil and gas, water and wastewater, manufacturing, and aerospace. Today I am Associate Principal for Industrial IoT at LTIMindtree (LTM Limited), where I lead NexusIQ, the firm's CygNet-to-Ignition SCADA migration accelerator, and founder and CEO of Stratavos Integration Group. Over the last two and a half decades I have designed, programmed, commissioned, and led the systems that run plants, pipelines, and remote field operations.
My work spans every layer of an operation. I have designed embedded circuits and firmware, built custom industrial software and OPC drivers, architected fault-tolerant SCADA and HMI systems, and stood up the IIoT pipelines that carry field data to the cloud. That full-stack range is deliberate. The hardest problems in industrial digital transformation live in the seams between disciplines, and someone has to be fluent on both sides of every seam.
As the former founder and CEO of Sahoma Controlware, I led initiatives that brought IIoT, machine learning, and cloud technologies into traditional industrial controls, positioning operations at the edge of where the industry is heading rather than where it has been. The same philosophy runs through every engagement: open architecture over vendor lock-in, data over dashboards, and systems built to scale and adapt instead of systems built to be replaced again in five years.
I have led complex, multidisciplinary programs across more than one hundred countries' worth of operations, coordinating cross-functional teams from first design through commissioning and start-up. The constant is a focus on the outcome: improved efficiency, reduced downtime, and operations that can actually act on the data they generate.
Unified Namespace, MQTT and Sparkplug B, and standards-based interfaces keep data portable and the architecture free to evolve. The control system feeds the enterprise; it does not cap it.
A dashboard is not the goal. Contextualized, well-modeled data that feeds analytics, historians, and operators in the moment is what moves the needle on uptime and cost.
ISA-95, ISA-101, ISA-18.2, IEC 62443, and the Purdue model are not paperwork. They are what makes a system safe, legible, and maintainable by the next engineer who inherits it.
Every system ships with the documentation, structure, and discipline that let it scale and survive long after the original build team has moved on.
Education and credentials
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