LSI - Logical Systems Inc.

Project Manager

Garver

-Perform Arc Flash Studies for Airports, Municipals and Cities.
-Develop One-Lines for Entire Electrical Distribution Systems.
-Coordinate proposals for new contracts and interface with new clients.
-Work with team of draftsmen and engineers to provide reports and deliverables for customer on large scale projects.
-On-call services as owner's engineer for projects performed by others.

Project Engineer/Project Manager

Pactiv Evergreen Inc.

-Assist in developing and maintaining the 3 to 5 year strategic plan for capital investment projects.
-Responsible for coordinating all project elements including engineering design, quality planning, manufacturing, installation and commissioning and final buy-off phases as well as ensuring the project remains within budget in order to meet the requirements of the business.
-Responsible for multiple highly complex major projects requiring innovative original solutions where results are key to successful completion of major projects.
-Work with operations and maintenance to deliver strategic, maintenance, cost savings and regulatory projects for obsolete equipment across the mill.

Project Manager / Project Engineer

Evergreen Packaging

-Responsible for managing 4 vibration analysts and vibration monitoring program for rotating equipment across the mill
-Oversee the motor reliability program including rebuild specifications and PDMA testing
-Maintain mill wide electrical one lines as well as distribution system in Easy Power
-Root Cause Failure Analysis on repeat component or equipment failure including bearings, PLCs, drives, etc
-Oil sampling and annual maintenance of over 150 transformers
-Predictive & Preventative Maintenance: PDMA (MCE Testing), Vibration Analysis (ISO Category III certified), Thermography, Ultrasonic Lubrication
-Drives; DC, AC & Sync Motors; Sync Exciters; PLCs; Transformers; Protective Relays; Switchgear; Breakers
-Motor Reliability, Vibration & Arc Flash Programs
-CMO (Cold Mill Outage) Electrical Planning & Project Management
-Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) projects to reduce downtime
-Manufacturing Excellence (Green Belt & Six Sigma) initiatives/projects to improve tracking, training and throughput
-Temporary fill-in for Electrical Foremen on shutdowns, vacations and holidays. Ran crews and involved in troubleshooting of electrical equipment.

Maintenance & Reliability Electrical Engineer

Arkansas Tech University

-Facilitated and taught three sections of physics labs for 60-70 students taking General Physics I &amp; II.
-Provided additional tutoring in Statics and Dynamics courses to 15-20 students; graded homework.
-Generated Blackboard (a software tool used by faculty to aid or teach classes online) course shells for various instructors and provided e-mail support on how to use the several aspects of Blackboard.

Graduate Assistant/Worker

Trane Arkansas

-Completed plan and specification take-offs, selection, pricing, proposal and submittal generation, follow-up and order enclosure of HVAC equipment like chillers, rooftop units, split systems, heat pumps, unit heaters and packaged climate changers.
-Responsible for creating cost estimates consisting of materials, vendor equipment, and labor (start-up &amp; service work) to assist Account Managers in bidding on or determining price of project.
-Worked with a team of Sales Engineers, Controls Engineers and Account Managers on add-on, renovation and new building projects of facilities like hospitals, schools, and police departments ranging in worth from $5,000 to $330,500. 
-Generated detailed bids and proposals with overall worth of about $2.3 million.
-Optimized job costs by negotiating prices with vendors/sub-contractors through quotations for materials/services.
-Responded to customer inquiries by investigating concerns, implementing corrective actions, and communicating with customers &amp; staff.
-Allocated job costs and commissions per project.
-Implemented order write-ups, expediting, and routing using Field Order Entry (FOE).
-Assisted with overall project management.

Inside Sales Engineer / Project Manager

Pendergraft Library, Arkansas Tech University

-Assisted 50-100 students in use of computer applications, accessories, &amp; general library features.
-Set up technology for events up to 300 people and also for university board meetings.

Instructional Technology Assistant

Meena Bazaar Ltd. Ghana, Africa

-Operated wholesale and retail business featuring electronic goods and general merchandise; this included inventory management, credit and collections, and inside sales.

General Manager

Born in India, raised in Africa and last 20 years in America. Love all cultures and working with people from all walks of life!

SPECIAL PROJECTS
•Bleach Plant Controls: $3.2 Million project installing consistency meters, kappa analyzer, and refining lab testing. Came in $200k under budget and delivered cost savings in ClO2 and NaOH with ROI of less than 2 years
•Millwide Electrical Load Shed System: Executed a priority load shed system using upgraded SEL relays (some parts were old electromechanical) and PLC system. New HMI screens for Power Plant Control Room than included
•Arc Flash & Coordination Study: Easy Power Model of 115kV utility ties, 3 Turbine Generators and 4 Main 13.8kV Buses/Distribution Switchgear, Sync Bus along with entire plant of transformers, breakers, MCCs and motors/load. Also provided and installed mitigation solutions and labels across plant.
•Paper Machine Coordinate Drive Systems Upgrade: Upgraded entire machine electrical drives from wet end to dry end. 25 Drives: 15 Front End Upgrades and 10 from DC to AC.
•Winder Aux PLC Replacement: Upgraded Winder PLC in phased outages using monitor mode and partial replacements during regular outages with zero downtime impact to Board Machine (did not require an Annual or CMO)
•PowerHouse Critical Transformer & Primary Switch Upgrade: Replaced 13.8kV to 480V transformer along with Primary Switch/Breaker combo in a daisy chain as part of reliability upgrade

Specialties: 
-A team player
-Self-starter
-Dedicated to learning, excellence, effective communication, and project management.
-Friendly, outgoing, personable, diligent and responsible.

COMPUTER SKILLS
Office software: 		MS Word, Excel, Project, Outlook, PowerPoint
Programming Languages: 	C, SQL
Database Applications: 	SAP, SQL Server, Access
Engineering Software: 	Easy Power, Pspice, Matlab, HCB, TOPPS, LYNX/Job Center, CATT2, Citrix

Kunal Khatri

Dissident Minds

Rejecting mediocrity, challenging the status quo, and daring others to join us.  

We arm entrepreneurs and creators with products to inspire & support their journey toward personal & professional excellence. We aim to foster a community of BOLD individuals who won't settle for average, follow their own rules, and drive INNOVATION. ​

Co-Founder and COO

Mahlet 

Develop and execute organizational growth strategy in conjunction with the Mahlet CEO, foudner, and leadership team. 
Interface directly with prospects and current customers to supply and maintain superior  telecommunications and cybersecurity/network security arena solutions in variety of industries and applications.

Director of Business Development

Gentry Services

Partner with the CEO, Gentry Services, engaging current and prospective customers to develop and implement exceptional, tailored solutions. Devise strategies for client outreach and industry expansion. Ensure quality standards are being exceeded at every level.

Director of Business Initiatives

Leverage systems engineering, technical leadership, and exceptional interpersonal skills to provide expert systems engineering services to a Fortune 100 aerospace industry corporation within the Baltimore-Washington D.C. region.

Consulting Systems Engineer

United States Department of Defense

▪	Technical director for over 1200 civilian, military and contractor personnel in the Washington, D.C. area and several hundred more located at field sites throughout the United States and abroad. 
▪	Developed new employee orientation and internal training program for office employees in order to foster organizational mission understanding and solidify the technical health and skills of the workforce.
▪	Collaborate with front line employees to identify critical gaps in analysis-focused technical tools and capabilities. Develop innovative solutions to address these gaps, partnering across multiple offices to integrate solutions into the corporate architecture.

Technical Director

	Successfully orchestrated complex technical operations, leading matrixed teams of experts, often under highly constrained timelines.
	Established partnerships with external US Government organizations to identify areas of mutual interest, combining resources and skills to achieve numerous organizational successes within a short, 2-year time period.

Engineering Project Manager

	Provided regional on-site and remote technical support, systems engineering services, training, and customer engagement for Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Western Asia.
	Navigated complex international partnerships and customer relationships, engaging with organizations from over 18 foreign countries on a variety of technical topics and projects.

Field Systems Engineer

	Engineering project lead for multiple top priority office efforts with annual project budgets exceeding $100M.
	Effectively formed and led multi-US Government organizational teams on dozens of overseas assignments, demonstrating the ability to plan effectively and act quickly and decisively in response to changing situations in high-pressure environments. 
	Responsible for large datacenter system design, upgrades, maintenance, training, and documentation.

Lead Systems Engineer

AJE - American Journal Experts

▪	Proactively acquired a part-time side job during the COVID-19 pandemic stay-at-home orders with a focus on maintaining and improving my own communication skills while expanding my professional experience.
▪	Reviewed and edited technical research papers for grammar, sentence structure and clarity prior to their submission for publication across a range of specialties, meeting 100% of all deadlines.

Technical Research Editor - Independent contractor

Fives North American Combustion, Inc.

▪	Gathered requirements, designed, and fabricated circuitry and appropriate enclosures, performed operational testing and validation of electronic products, and generated necessary documentation to satisfy customer needs for automated guiding systems in industrial environments.
▪	Generated clear and thorough user manuals, maintenance instructions and troubleshooting guides for customer products.

Electronic Products Engineer

People person by nature, electrical engineer by training. I lead cross-functional technical teams, working directly with customers, to develop and implement innovative solutions.

Proven technical leader with 16 years of diverse experience in both the private and public sectors to include: electronics product engineering, systems engineering, sales, technical project, team leadership, and customer engagement.

Excellent written and oral communication skills. Highly organized and detail oriented. Team builder and consensus builder with an emphasis on leading through influence and personalized motivation.

Devin Ryder

ChatGPT didn’t get hacked because of their systems. They got hacked because someone else’s systems failed.

Recently OpenAI (you know...ChatGPT creator...) confirmed they’ve experienced a data breach and are still dealing with it now. 

How? 

Because a partner company that has access to their systems was breached first. 

Your defense is only as reliable as your weakest:

- partner
- system
- person

So how can you win?

It's a constantly shifting battlefield...

But we can start by changing what's not currently working.

Engineer | People person | CSO - Redefining security for enterprise optical networks so that the good guys can start winning again

I’ve worked in cyber for 20 years and led teams across the globe,
But until last week, I'd never booked a single meeting through LinkedIn.

I posted.
I engaged.
I tried direct outreach.

But nothing moved.

Then, as I do with many problems I've encountered I decided to invest in myself and get help from people who know what they're doing.

Based on referrals from trusted friends, I joined a social sales mastermind and learned a completely different way to prospect through social media.

No spam.
No paragraphs.
Just a simple audio DM strategy...that actually sounds like ME!

I used the script we built.
And in the first week, I booked 3 high-value meetings.

Same network.
Same prospects.
Different strategy.

If you’ve been trying to crack LinkedIn and feel like you’re pushing a boulder uphill, it might not be your market.

It might just be your method.

I’m only 7 weeks into this mastermind, but the difference is incredible.

If you want the audio DM framework that finally worked for me, reach out to Sims Tillirson and Tiffany Ryder. 

It’s worth it!

Investing in yourself always is.

This deal gives hackers a skeleton key to the ENTIRE U.S. government. Here’s the problem in one sentence:


If EVERY federal agency buys the exact same hardware from the exact same handful of vendors, the bullseye that hackers are aiming at gets much easier to hit.

One zero-day.
One supply-chain backdoor.
One nation-state exploit tailored to that device…

…AND the hacker doesn’t just get into 1 agency.

They get access to EVERY agency using that same gear.

An aggressive hacker organization (we call them Advanced Persistent Threats - APTs) finds a single flaw in the widely used firewall that's available in this deal...

BOOM 🤯

DOD - Treasury - Energy - HHS. Every classified network using that box just became their playground.

Yes, discounts save money.
Yes, standardization improves efficiency.

But when “resilience” isn’t improved, we haven’t secured anything.

Capitalists are greedy bastards that only care about profit! 

I've heard this throughout my life, still do, and there's probably some truth to it.

But in the small business world, at least, I've had a very different experience.

Over the last month I've engaged directly with ~15-20 business leaders, founders, and CEOs in organizations big and small. 

None of them owed me anything, but they gave everything. 

They shared their knowledge, experience, guidance, expertise and genuinely tried to help however they could. 

Of course we tried to find mutually beneficial interests to pursue, but even when none were immediately available, their passion for helping someone that they just met didn't disappear.

They took all the (precious) time they needed to try to assist me with my goals however they could, and I reciprocated.

Makes me proud, thankful, encouraged, and puts a big smile on my face and in my heart. 

🍻🇺🇸😊

Trusting your critical edge devices by default costs you money, customers, regulatory penalties, and more.

And it definitely ain't practicing "Zero-Trust"...

Instead, use Two-System Integrity (TSI) to independently verify that these key devices are behaving as expected, in real time, by looking directly at the data their handling.

Superbowl LX here we come!

Feeling good after yet ANOTHER Cleveland Browns victory. 

Honestly, I didn't know it was legal to win 3 games in a single season. 

I'm certain that we just set a record. 

We're the best. 

I love football. 

I love Cleveland. 

I love lamp. 

🏈🇺🇸🍻

Never forget 


The 3 minutes that Cleveland was up 8-7

You can forget the rest

I'm trying really hard to

Is nothing off limits to these monsters?!?!?

You can take my personal data, but please don't take my beer! 

😋

People who don't change their home Wi-Fi router's default admin password be like...

One of our DoD customers came to us with no pants on.


Security-wise, anyways.

Turns out, this is how almost all organizations live life.

Defending the castle from attack with no pants.
Something to avoid if at all possible...(Confucius)

And yet, nearly everyone out there is still ignoring vulnerabilities that exist within layer 1 optical and ethernet protocols...

(yah...ethernet has a layer 1 component - who knew?!?!)

Meanwhile, most others are still holding their swords high, charging forward, clad in armor from the waist up, thinking they're protected against any attack - but of course they aren't...

Not even if you're using the fanciest most expensive edge firewall.
Not even if you've got 37 tools looking at layers 2-7.
Not even if you've got the most impressive MSSP.
Not even if you're 100% in the cloud.

Covert exfil.
Insider threats.
Bulk denial of service.
Undetectable backdoors.

The threats are only limited by the creativity of the adversary.

We helped our DoD partner recognize this and defend against it.

And yes, we've already caught some...unexpected activity...

Are you wearing pants?

Your tech can be hacked before it's ever installed.

Supply chain risks are real.

We love the holiday season! 

Having a great team really puts the cherry on top. 

Thank you to our founding father, Dan Getachew, for his leadership, dedication, humor, and support as he heads into a week deserved retirement-ish 😉
🎉🎉🎉🇺🇸

Happy Holidays for 2025

Its always a pleasure to have your company family gather together to celebrate the arrival of the holiday season and this year as I get ready for a transition of sorts its even more impactful to have my team mates celebrate both my impending retirement and transition to Emeritus status...   Here are some pictures of our wonderful holiday dinner held on 12/08/2025

Here is wishing all of you a very Happy Holiday Season.    I see my excellent editing skills still get me every time...   Well now a retired old man it is expected I guess....    "Smile and the whole world will smile with you....."

The GSA OneGov deal doesn't fortify our cybersecurity, it makes it worse.


Here’s the problem in one sentence:
If EVERY federal agency to buy the exact same security hardware from the exact same handful of vendors, the bullseye gets a lot bigger for hackers aiming at these targets.

One zero-day.
One supply-chain backdoor.
One nation-state exploit tailored to that device…

…and the attacker doesn’t just get into ONE agency.

They get a skeleton key to the ENTIRE U.S. government.

Imagine an aggressive APT (I've dubbed them “Stinky Banana”) finding a single flaw in the mandated next-gen firewall.

BOOM 🤯.

DOD. Treasury. Energy. HHS. Every classified and unclassified network running that box just became their playground.

Monoculture killed Irish potatoes in the 1840s.

Monoculture in cybersecurity will kill government resilience in the 2020s.

Yes, big discounts save money.
Yes, standardization improves efficiency.

But when “resilience” isn’t even in the conversation, we haven’t fortified anything.

We’ve just created the juiciest target imaginable.

Cost and efficiency matter.

Not getting completely wrecked by the next SolarWinds-scale attack matters more.

We can do both, but this deal misses the cybersecurity piece entirely.

Thankfully it's optional and not a mandate... let's hope some orgs choose other options.

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