Bryan Powrozek CPA, CGMA, MBA AddedJune 14, 2021 AT 7:39 AM Featured interview - Bryan Powrozek Bryan Powrozek is a manager with Clayton & McKervey, a global tax and accounting firm in Southfield, Michigan. This is a partial transcript of his interview on Talking Industrial Automation podcast. Why don’t you start by sharing some information about your background? My undergrad education is in mechanical engineering. I spent 12 years in the auto industry doing ... Read More
Barry Anderson , Latsa Learning Services Pty Ltd AddedMay 17, 2021 AT 10:33 AM Featured interview - Barry Anderson Barry Anderson is a director at LATSA Learning Services, an Australian-based company that provides a suite of management consulting and certified, customized project and process management training services. The following is a partial transcript of the full interview. Why did you chose a career in automation or did the career chose you? It’s actually a little bit of both. I started with a fairly large industrial electrical company ... Read More
Pat Miller P. E. , Engineered Energy Solutions, Inc. AddedApril 15, 2021 AT 7:59 AM Featured interview - Pat Miller Pat Miller is owner and chair of Engineered Energy Solutions in Warren, New Jersey. Why did you choose a career in control system integration? I pretty much stumbled into it. I graduated from college, and the first job I had was working with ... Read More
Kirk Byles , FreeWave Technologies AddedMarch 16, 2021 AT 12:04 PM Featured interview - Kirk Byles Kirk Byles is CEO of FreeWave Technologies. How do you describe to lay people what you do? Well, what I do is lead from a remote office in the mountains. But what FreeWave does is ... Read More
James Mansfield , Matrix Technologies, Inc. AddedFebruary 17, 2021 AT 5:11 AM Featured interview - Jim Mansfield Jim Mansfield is a senior manager, manufacturing systems and solutions, at Matrix Technologies Inc. How do you describe to laypeople what you do? Today it’s a lot different than when I first started. I would say within the last 15 years, my ... Read More
Steve Pavlosky , GE Digital AddedJanuary 20, 2021 AT 8:20 AM Featured interview - Steve Pavlosky Steve Pavlosky is principal product manager of historian and data at the edge technology for GE Digital. What are some of the changes that you’ve seen related to industrial data management over the years? There has obviously been a tremendous amount of technology change since I started in the mid-80s. I ... Read More
Ken Mroz , CIMON Inc. AddedNovember 11, 2020 AT 7:53 PM Featured interview Ken Mroz Ken Mroz is national business development manager for CIMON Automation in Henderson, Nevada. What’s the best advice you could give your younger self just getting started? It’s OK say that you don’t know and answer but that you will find out. Don’t ever try to guess and ... Read More
Barry Brian , DRM, LLC AddedOctober 22, 2020 AT 7:29 AM Featured interview - Barry Brian Barry Brian is co-owner of DRM, LLC, a system integrator located in southern middle Tennessee. How did you choose a career in control system integration? Honestly, it just fell into my lap. Back in high school, in the ‘80s, I was the one that you came ... Read More
Josh Eastburn , OPTO 22 AddedSeptember 14, 2020 AT 10:26 AM Featured interview - Josh Eastburn Josh Eastburn is director of technical marketing for Opto 22 in Temecula, California. Why did you choose a career in control system integration? I kind of fell into it while studying computer science but had some great early opportunities to ... Read More
Michael Gurney , Concept Systems Inc. AddedAugust 11, 2020 AT 7:27 AM Featured interview - Michael Gurney Michael Gurney is co-founder, president and CEO of Concept Systems in Albany, Oregon. How did you end up in control system integration? My dad was a control engineer, so I grew up around controls and automation. I used to see my dad ... Read More