WHO ARE YOU?

Work seems to just be filler between all the time spent following (or chauffeuring) our two teenage daughters around to all their events.  They are both very involved in sports and 4-H activities.  If I have any free time, I enjoy flying (piloting) and seeing the beauty of the Ozarks from a different perspective.  My wife, Lori, and I try to make use of small aircraft as time machines to travel to some of our girls’ events while saving time and hassle associated with driving.

WHAT DO YOU DO?

I work in the Automation department doing PLC and HMI programming.  Throughout the project lifecycle, this usually involves working at a client’s facility while commissioning and starting up a project.

FAVORITE ESC MOMENT?

I was helping Calvin on a startup and we were working on fine tuning a machine to be capable of running at different speeds.  Based on watching the equipment run, we had developed an equation to adjust the ancillary conveyor speeds to match the machine speeds.  Our project manager then got involved and insisted on using a different equation.  I was trying to explain the elements of the equation of a line to the PM, and was emphatically told that was incorrect.  While we were having the “discussion” Calvin plotted both equations in Excel along with the empirical data that we had already recorded to show that the actual data was almost identical to the equation we had been trying to use.  When Calvin showed the plot he had created, the response we received has entertained Calvin and I to this day.