Blake Collins

Background

About Blake Collins

Experienced Business Development Director with a passion for relationship building and growth strategy. Have led national strategy for current market retention and new vertical market capture. Success in medium to large multi-million dollars sales, contract negotiation and strategy deployment. Service many vertical markets including Oil & Gas, Automotive, Water/Wastewater, industrial automation, Pharmaceuticals, and Food & Beverage. In the past, have led, organized, and implemented control system upgrade and installation projects of varying scales and complexity across the USA and abroad. Project Engineer/Automation Lead experience for projects involving HMI, DCS Configuration, Functional Safety, Systems, SIS, PLCs. Systems lead experience includes planning and installation of hardware, furniture, and various control room peripherals. HMI Lead experience includes planning to commissioning of graphics and also shape building. Possess DCS application engineer experience involving basic function blocks, Sequence Control Modules (SCMs), and Custom Algorithm Blocks (CABs). Well accustomed to Honeywell Experion and Rockwell architecture and interface. A Project Management Professional (PMP)- since 2014