with the receipts
Skills, and where to check them.
Every line here links to something you can read: a job, a repository, or a piece of writing. A skills list without that is a list of adjectives, and you already know to discount those.
Controls and automation
SCADA and OT systems
Owned it, end to end · 30 years
Started on RF microwave telemetry for a gas transmission network in 1996, before anything was carried over IP. Ended running a 24/7 plant on an OT/SCADA stack built in-house.
evidenceElectrical Engineering Technician, Infrastructure, Columbia Gas TransmissionVP of Engineering & Technology, Whiskey HouseForge
Model predictive and advanced process control
Owned it, end to end · 15 years
Fifteen years of building MPC and APC models, most recently as layer two of the three-layer control system at Whiskey House, sitting above PLC PID control.
evidenceplc-workflows-mpcVP of Engineering & Technology, Whiskey House
PLC programming and control systems
Owned it, end to end · 20 years
Allen-Bradley through Studio 5000 and Ignition, including a live-plant migration off an L82 with production continuing throughout, and the tooling to put that code under version control.
evidenceacd-l5x-tool-libDirector of Engineering, Bardstown Bourbon Company
Manufacturing systems
MES, WMS and historian
Owned it, end to end · 4 years
Built in-house rather than bought, and run in production on a 24/7 plant for four years.
Industrial data architecture
Deep, hands-on · 6 years
Governance in the middle rather than at every edge: one hub that collects, governs, curates and serves, instead of an integration per pair of systems.
Power and infrastructure
Electrical power distribution
Owned it, end to end · 19 years
Nineteen years across underground mining equipment under MSHA, telecom central-office plant to NEBS and Telcordia, and gas transmission infrastructure.
evidenceSenior Electrical Engineer, Control Systems, Joy Global (Joy Mining Machinery)Telecom Power Distribution Engineer, then Systems Integrator, Lucent TechnologiesElectrical & Telecom Infrastructure Engineer, Bell Atlantic
Telecom infrastructure
Deep, hands-on · 10 years
Central-office power, structured cabling, grounding and bonding, and systems integration across 5ESS and the APX-8000, MaxTNT and Stinger concentrators.
evidenceTelecom Power Distribution Engineer, then Systems Integrator, Lucent TechnologiesElectrical & Telecom Infrastructure Engineer, Bell AtlanticElectrical Engineering Technician, Infrastructure, Columbia Gas Transmission
Standards and compliance
Electrical safety and NFPA 70E
Owned it, end to end · 9 years
Owned electrical safety for a greenfield site: directed the third-party short-circuit, coordination and arc-flash studies, and led implementation of what they found.
ISO 9001 and regulated manufacturing
Deep, hands-on · 11 years
Eleven years in federally regulated manufacturing under TTB, FDA and EPA rules, including ISO-certified quality systems.
evidenceDirector of Engineering, Bardstown Bourbon CompanySenior Process Engineer, Sazerac Company
Software and data
Applied AI and retrieval systems
Deep, hands-on · 2 years
Retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, knowledge graphs and agent memory, built rather than configured. The grounded assistant and the job-description reviewer on this site run on it.
evidenceMDEMGrogerhenley.dev
Go
Deep, hands-on · 3 years
The memory graph, the neural-network research, and this site's API.
evidenceMDEMGann-researchrogerhenley.dev
Python
Deep, hands-on · 8 years
The industrial data hub, the PLC conversion library, and the containerised control workflows.
Leadership and delivery
Engineering leadership
Owned it, end to end · 9 years
Nine years as Director then VP: P&L and budget ownership, the software development lifecycle, and direct supervision of electrical, process, controls, software and data-engineering teams.
evidenceVP of Engineering & Technology, Whiskey HouseDirector of Engineering, Bardstown Bourbon Company
Capital project delivery
Owned it, end to end · 9 years
Stage-gate delivery of plant capital projects, including a doubling of plant capacity and a greenfield distillery.
evidenceDirector of Engineering, Bardstown Bourbon CompanyVP of Engineering & Technology, Whiskey House
Decision quality under load
Deep, hands-on · 3 years
A published series on why good information still produces bad calls, and a running experiment measuring it.
evidenceBetter Business Decisions Require Better Information — Part 1rogerhenley.dev