Meet Our Team
James Dean
Founder & CEO
James has spent 30+ years building control and data acquisition systems, starting with LabVIEW during his university days. With a Physics degree (and Math/Electrical Engineering minors) from UT Austin, he is a Certified LabVIEW Architect (CLA) and Certified Professional Instructor (CPI). His career spans 12 years supporting spaceflight hardware testing at NASA Johnson Space Center followed by 14+ years in industrial systems integration. He focuses on the interfaces between hardware and software, ensuring real-world sensors, actuators, and control code work as cohesive systems. James loves new design challenges and troubleshooting hard problems. Whether working on high-pressure test systems, oilfield skids, aerospace test platforms, or mobile factories, he helps teams build reliable automation outside the traditional factory floor.
Josh Mosley
Mosley has spent over two decades engineering controls and automation systems across diverse industrial sectors, beginning shortly after earning a BS in Computer Science in 2003. Starting as an IT specialist at a systems integration firm, Mosley quickly pivoted into controls engineering and has since built a comprehensive career spanning 14 years in Oil & Gas, Subsea, and Chemical processing, 3+ years in Green Power Generation, 3 years in Marine automation, and 4 years across Manufacturing and Food & Beverage. Specializing heavily in Rockwell Automation and Allen-Bradley environments—including the FactoryTalk Suite (View, Historian, Optix, Linx), PlantPAx, Studio 5000, ControlLogix, CompactLogix, and Flex 5000 IO—Mosley focuses on delivering end-to-end solutions throughout the complete engineering lifecycle, from FEED through on-site installation and commissioning. Notable career highlights include engineering the below-decks monitoring and data acquisition systems for switchgear, power generation, fuel, and ballast across three Molinari-class Staten Island Ferry vessels, as well as successfully deploying two geothermal power plants.
Nathan Winn
Nathan has spent four years at Vertical AIT building specialized acquisition and control software for domain-specific problems, primarily in the Aerospace and Oil & Gas industries. Holding a BS in Electronic Systems Engineering Technology (with a Cybersecurity minor) from Texas A&M University ('21), Nathan started in automation designing low-power, wireless IoT asset tracking systems before focusing on large-scale software design. As a Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD), Nathan specializes in software architecture, reusable code design, and cross-platform communication between PC applications and NI CompactRIO/CompactDAQ hardware. Key capabilities include distributed automation frameworks, Modbus, DAQmx, Python scripting, and Git version control. Notable project highlights include architecting the high-speed, high-channel-count 4SQ Control and DAQ system for GE Aerospace and developing an internal Entity Component System (ECS) framework in LabVIEW. Nathan thrives on customer R&D challenges that require clean software design and complex troubleshooting
Eric Saenz
Eric is an Industrial Automation and Systems Engineer with over 20 years of experience designing control systems, automated test stands, and embedded software. Beginning a career in Oil & Gas designing and building electronic circuit boards, Eric brings deep, multi-disciplinary expertise that spans hardware design, enterprise IT, virtual machines, PLCs, and Linux-based NI cRIO environments running LabVIEW. Eric focuses on full-lifecycle system design, taking complex engineering projects from initial architecture all the way to field commissioning to observe systems in live operation and refine processes alongside end-user operators. Notable project highlights include engineering low-level device simulation solutions, such as configuring cRIO platforms to communicate with microcontrollers over I2C to simulate complex sensor behavior. Bridging the gap between low-level hardware protocols and high-level enterprise automation, Eric excels at solving hands-on hardware/software interface challenges and delivering reliable end-to-end control solutions.
Industries We Serve
Aerospace | Oil & Gas | Industrial Manufacturing | Machinery | Advanced R&D Testing