Leadership

Randy Otto

Randy brings to ECS more than 25 years of experience in diverse industries, including glass fibers manufacturing and custom assembly machine manufacturing. Before joining ECS, Randy spent 10 years managing the delivery of assembly equipment for Integrated Systems Manufacturing and process control systems for Premier System Integrators. For most of the last 12 years, he has managed business development and sales for ECS. Randy graduated from Purdue University with a degree in electrical engineering technology. He has an MBA from the University of Southern Indiana.

Kurt Daunhauer

Kurt has more than 27 years of experience integrating process control solutions for a variety of industries. He has managed ECS’ operations since 1995. Before that, he spent nine years delivering material handling solutions for Pentek Corporation and drive and motion systems for Flanders Electric Engineering. Kurt graduated from Purdue University with a degree in electrical engineering technology.

John Parraga

John Parraga is an experienced process, particularly batch process, an engineer with career stops at Sequentia, the firm that gave the world batch management as we know it, and Rockwell Automation. At Rockwell Automation John held several roles. As a Global Process Technical Consultant, John advised many customers and integrators on the best way to control their processes. As the FactoryTalk Batch product manager, John was part of the PlantPAx leadership team. As a salesperson focused on the life science industry, John was able to apply his knowledge in a different but rapidly growing area of process manufacturing. John has participated in a number of organizations over the years. His published paper on recipe-based clean-in-place remains a standard for implementing the best and most efficient clean-in-place control systems.

Jordan Stoltz

Jordan graduated from the University of Evansville with a B.S. in Computer Engineering. Jordan began working for ECS as an intern and has been a full-time engineer for ECS since his graduation. Jordan has worked on a wide variety of integration projects for ECS, with a focus on Batch Processing. In addition to base skills in PLC programming and SCADA system design, Jordan also has significant experience working with custom SQL-based material management solutions, MES systems, Rockwell’s FactoryTalk Batch software suite, and ECS’ S88 Builder product. Jordan has been involved in large-scale batch processing projects in many capacities, from the sales/quoting cycle to development, startup, service, and support.

Jeff Harpenau

Jeff has 25+ years of automated manufacturing, and process control experience, in high volume discrete manufacturing, material handling, power plant systems, and food and beverage processes. He started his career at Siemens EC designing and programming high volume automation lines. For the majority of the last 18 years, his experience focused in process control and system integration of material handling and batch processes. Jeff graduated from the University of Southern Indiana with a degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and has since returned to obtain a Master’s in Industrial Manufacturing (MSIM), focusing on lean manufacturing.

Ryan Muller

Ryan graduated from Purdue University with a BS in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Technology in 1998. He has since applied his degree in sales, management, and engineering roles. Starting as an account representative for a prominent automation distributor in Northern Illinois, Ryan became knowledgeable in controls hardware and servo systems. He expanded this knowledge working for Integrated Systems Manufacturing as a Controls Engineer designing and programming custom packaging equipment for companies in the pharmaceutical and automotive industries. Ryan has been with ECS Solutions for 15+ years where he has served as a Systems Engineer, Project Manager, Account Manager, and Director of Engineering. During his tenure at ECS, Ryan has been exposed to power generation, metal converting, automotive, food and beverage, and life science industries.

Glen Gill

Glen has extensive experience with the control systems used on automated manufacturing equipment. A combination of seasoned problem-solving skills and leadership experience help Glen bring resolution to the most demanding control system integration challenges.

Areas of expertise include high speed automation, aluminum casting, rolling, and finishing applications, variable speed drives, coordinated drive solutions, industrial control networks, and complex control system hardware design and software development.