Industrial Controls & IIoT Architecture
Jason Slade
I bridge the gap between industrial hardware and modern data infrastructure — building SCADA systems, MQTT networks, and real-time data platforms that actually work at scale — for life sciences, power & utilities, and oil & gas.
01 · Core capabilities
Industrial Expertise
Industrial Automation
SCADA architecture, PLC programming, and historian infrastructure for regulated and high-availability environments — pharma, power and process.
IIoT Architecture
MQTT, OPC UA, and edge-to-cloud data pipelines that turn raw industrial signals into actionable dashboards.
Beyond the Plant Floor
Home Biolab — instrumented curiosity
The same discipline that keeps a GMP production line within spec also runs a circadian-biology experiment at home — bioluminescent dinoflagellates, Pioreactor, PID temperature control, custom luminometry. Precision doesn’t care about the application.
02 · Industries
Seventeen years across regulated, high-stakes operations
Life sciences is the current focus — but the SCADA, historian, and real-time data discipline was forged in power utilities and oil & gas, where downtime and data integrity carry the same weight.
Current Focus
Life Sciences & Pharma
GMP manufacturing and validated systems for FDA-regulated production — Pfizer, Vertex and others, via Horizon Controls and TQS Integration.
- 21 CFR Part 11
- GAMP5
- CSV · IQ/OQ/PQ
- Ignition
Deep Bench
Power & Utilities
Transmission, distribution and generation — SCADA and PI historians, synchrophasor/SmartGrid data and NERC/CIP environments. Dominion, Xcel Energy, PG&E.
- NERC/CIP
- Synchrophasors
- DNP3
- OSIsoft PI
Where It Started
Oil & Gas
Upstream production and process historians — PI interface architecture, Honeywell PHD and field data systems across drilling and production. Shell Upstream, Hess.
- Upstream
- OSIsoft PI
- Honeywell PHD
- OPC
Available for consulting, architecture, and hands-on engineering engagements.