Marc Taccolini , Tatsoft, LLC AddedAugust 5, 2019 AT 10:36 AM Featured Interview - Marc Taccolini Marc Taccolini is founder and CTO of Tatsoft, a platform developer for real-time factory-floor data monitoring, SCADA and HMI Systems, distributed data aggregation and advanced visualization tools. Why did you choose the career you did, or did the career choose you? The career chooses me in 1986, but then It was my decision to stay. I started as a trainee in a ... Read More
Michael Howard , George T. Hall Company AddedJuly 1, 2019 AT 10:18 AM Featured interview - Michael Howard Michael Howard is Vice President of System Integration | George T. Hall Company, a CSIA Certified control system integrator company, located in Sparks, NV. Why did you choose a career in control system integration? Going back some 25 years, I was always interested in electromechanical equipment. I began my career ... Read More
Matt Wells , GE Digital AddedJuly 9, 2018 AT 12:00 PM GE Digital and Matt Wells Matt Wells is Vice President of Digital Product Management at GE Digital , a CSIA Certified control system integrator company, located in San Ramon, CA. Share the history of how General Electric began and how the company has evolved in(to) the automation industry. As you probably know GE began manufacturing light bulbs and has grown to become one of the biggest ... Read More
Arun Sinha , OPTO 22 AddedMay 29, 2018 AT 8:30 AM Featured Interview - Arun Sinha Opto 22 is a CSIA Partner Member. Download Opto 22's IoT Primer. Visit Opto 22's CSIA Exchange Profile to research them through brochures, videos, case studies and white papers they post. Let them know you found them on the Exchange ! Why did you choose a career in automation - control system integration? Or did your career choose you? (How did you get here?) Probably like many of the people in this industry, I came into it by accident. Out of school I was ... Read More
Ashley Dawson , Crossmuller Pty Ltd AddedApril 24, 2018 AT 9:55 AM Featured Interview - Ashley Dawson Ashley Dawson is the General Manager at Crossmuller, a CSIA Certified member headquartered in Glendenning, Australia. Crossmuller is a leader in serving the food & beverage, consumer goods, packaging. and material handling industries and has been in business for more than 20 ... Why did you choose a career in control system integration? I’ve always been fascinated with computers, and in particular, as a young student I managed to get ... Read More
Travis Erpenbach , Carlton-Bates Company AddedMarch 6, 2018 AT 11:04 AM Carlton-Bates Company and Travis Erpenbach Travis Erpenbach is the Manager of Strategic Programs for Carlton-Bates Company (CBC), a CSiA Partner Member. CBC is a distributor of Automation & Control products, and a provider of value-added services. Travis is responsible for building and managing their ... Why did you choose a career in automation - control system integration? Or did your career choose you? (How did you get here?) It’s interesting to reflect on this question and to think about how your career decisions lead you ... Read More
Jeff Miller , Interstates Control Systems, Inc. AddedJuly 12, 2016 AT 10:01 AM Interstates Controls and Jeff Miller Jeff Miller is the director of project management for Interstate Control Systems in Sioux Center, Iowa. Jeff has been actively engaged in CSIA since Interstates joined the association nearly 17 years ago. Among other things, he has served as a key leader on the Best Practices Committee and as ... Why did you choose a career in control system integration? I started my career out in the electrical power industry working for Arkansas Power & Light. I soon ... Read More
Timothy S. Matheny P.E. , ECS Solutions, Inc. AddedJuly 12, 2016 AT 9:56 AM ECS Solutions and Timothy Matheny Tim Matheny is the president of ECS Solutions , a CSIA Certified system integrator in Evansville, Indiana. He has more than 33 years of software engineering and consulting experience. Working for ECS in a variety of roles since 1982, he has served as president for the past ... Why did you choose a career in control system integration? My father-in-law initiated my interest in control system integration. He happened to be in the ... Read More
Steve Goldberg , Matrix Technologies, Inc. AddedJuly 12, 2016 AT 9:51 AM Matrix Technologies and Steve Goldberg Steve Goldberg is Senior Project Engineer at Matrix Technologies , a CSIA Certified control system integrator company, headquartered in Maumee, Ohio, U.S. Steve is a past chairman of the CSIA Board of Directors. We caught up with him to ask a few questions about his company and the state ... Why did you choose a career in control system integration? I started off as a software engineer and found myself implementing a control system. The experience ... Read More
Gustavo Rojas , Gersa Monterrey S.A. de C.V. AddedJuly 12, 2016 AT 9:41 AM Gersa Monterrey and Gustavo Rojas Gustavo Rojas is CEO of Gersa Monterrey , a CSIA Certified member headquartered in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mexico. Gersa is a leader in serving the mining, automotive and glass industries and has been in business for more than 20 years. We invited Gustavo Rojas to share some ... What convinced Gersa to become a member of CSIA? We took great steps in our search of automation organizationsworldwide. We discovered great value ... Read More