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SENIOR PROFILE

Senior automation, controls, and plant engineering leader with 25+ years of experience improving reliability, uptime, process performance, and technical execution across pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food manufacturing, packaging, and oil & gas environments. Strong background in control-system modernization, PLC/DCS/SCADA systems, commissioning, validation, technical documentation, Lean continuous improvement, and practical use of AI-assisted engineering and project-management tools.

CORE COMPETENCIES

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Principal Automation Engineer / Plant Controls Consultant | Lonza - Contractor | December 2025 - Present

• Provide senior automation, controls, validation, and plant engineering support for CCP1 control-system modernization, operational readiness, code review, functional testing, and regulated project execution.
• Perform code reviews and technical assessments across multiple control platforms, including baseline verification, migration and connection testing, issue resolution, and creation/execution of multi-user DocuSign engineering review workflows.
• Develop M580 / Control Expert design guidance covering programming standards, function blocks, data structures, unit/phase architecture, inter-controller communications, naming conventions, and migration practices.
• Plan and execute OFS (OPC Factory Server) performance, failover, and resiliency testing under production-representative batch loads; analyze tag quality, missed reads, bad-quality events, communication statistics, historian data, CPU/memory trends, batch continuity, and recovery behavior to support acceptance decisions.
• Use AI-assisted engineering and project-management tools for document comparison, technical review, SQL development, test-data analysis, report generation, and continuous-improvement activities.

Automation Manager / Senior Automation Engineer | MBC Companies | September 2025 - November 2025

• Provided hands-on plant-floor automation leadership for high-speed manufacturing, packaging, robotics, PLC/HMI systems, production support, and operational reliability improvement.
• Troubleshot and supported automated equipment including JLS robotic systems, Fuji wrapper equipment, Allen-Bradley / Studio 5000 controls, QA/QC processes, SOPs, training, and RedZone operational workflows.
• Partnered with operations, maintenance, quality, and management teams to stabilize equipment performance, improve technical documentation, support workforce capability, and reduce production risk.

Principal Automation Engineer / Project Manager | Inflexion Point - Remote | October 2023 - February 2025

• Served as primary customer liaison for enterprise data delivery and Ignition control-system projects, aligning customer leadership, project managers, and technical teams on scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Led PLC, SCADA, instrumentation, data delivery, system configuration, technical documentation, and commissioning-support workstreams.
• Mentored technical teams and authored SOWs, interface control documents, design specifications, and test plans.

Senior Automation Engineer | Genentech, Inc. - Remote | February 2020 - February 2023

• Led cross-functional automation teams supporting product transfers, equipment changes, system integration, and compliant project execution in regulated manufacturing environments.
• Developed test documentation, change requests, functional specifications, and automation deliverables aligned with GMP, GAMP, ANSI/ISA-95, S88, and 21 CFR Part 11 expectations.
• Designed, developed, and tested control-system solutions using Siemens DCS / 4-Mation and Wonderware InBatch, InTouch, and ArchestrA platforms.

Senior Automation Specialist | Haskell Company - Livermore, CA | September 2018 - February 2020

• Led control-system architecture, sequence-of-operation, instrument BOM, MES/historian integration, and commissioning activities using Rockwell PLC/SLCs, Studio 5000, FactoryTalk View SE, OSI PI, Oracle, and Microsoft Server technologies.
• Developed and executed FAT and SFAT documentation while supporting startup, troubleshooting, and commissioning of new and existing control systems.

Earlier Automation, Controls & Technical Leadership Experience | Genentech, Quantum Net Visions, Chevron, Bricsnet | 1997 - 2018

• Held automation engineering, project leadership, business ownership, and software development roles supporting Honeywell Experion, TotalPlant Batch, Wonderware InBatch upgrades, APACS DCS startup/commissioning, Honeywell TDC 3000 simulator integration, HMI graphics, C# batch manager API work, SQL, ASP, JavaScript, HTML, and PHP solutions.
• Built broad technical leadership experience across plant automation, process control, software, data, customer-facing delivery, commissioning, troubleshooting, and operational support.

SELECTED TECHNICAL PROJECTS

Independent automation and embedded-systems projects including ESP32 / Arduino sensor monitoring, analog signal conditioning, Wi-Fi data acquisition, robotics, and controls experimentation. Project examples and documentation: davidclarkprice.com

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

• Bachelor of Science, Computer Science - East Stroudsburg University, May 1997
• Lean Management Certification, Lean & Six Sigma for All Sectors, Including Manufacturing - Six Sigma University Amsterdam, June 2023