on the floor
Gallery.
Where the work happens: control rooms, columns, tank farms and greenfield builds. Every photo carries its context and the year; nothing here is stock.
2008 · Dragline at dusk
A dragline excavator on the bench at Hobet Mining, West Virginia.
Rebuilding the dragline's drive electronics for Joy Global / P&H Mining, about ten years into a career that began at Columbia Gas Transmission on midstream oil and gas SCADA and telecom infrastructure.
2023 · Inside the column
Looking down onto a bubble-cap tray inside a copper distillation column.
Distillation control work: the physics the loop tuning has to respect.
2023 · Heat exchanger tube bank
A large stainless shell-and-tube exchanger set in place before piping.
Greenfield distillery build: mechanical installation ahead of controls commissioning.
2024 · Copper pot stills
A row of copper pot stills in a tropical distillery.
Site visit; comparing batch pot distillation with continuous column control.
2023 · Conservation vent
A conservation vent valve on top of an outdoor distillate holding tank, with the piping around it.
Instrumentation and safeguarding detail on the distillate tank farm.
2024 · At the podium
Presenting at the University of Kentucky, James B. Beam Institute, 2024.
Talks on digital transformation and decision infrastructure for distillers.