Today Shawn has Brandon Cooper on the #AutomationTechTalk livestream to talk about what he's learning in his travels.
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Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Automation Tech Talk lunchtime edition. You may hear some background noise because today, I have a special guest on. It's Brandon Cooper, who you probably all know has written a bunch of articles over at the automation blog. And I've actually had Brandon on the automation podcast back on episode one zero six.

That was in 2022. Brandon, thank you for, agreeing to share your lunch with us.

Brandon Cooper (Guest): Hey. Glad to do it. Glad to do it. Thanks for

Shawn Tierney (Host): having me. You're well. Thank you. And I was telling, Brandon in the preshow, he's actually sitting in his backyard in Louisiana, and it just sounds awesome. He's got birds chirping, and it sounds so great.

It's like, man, that's so relaxing. But in any case, let me see. Brandon, you are

Brandon Cooper (Guest): eighties this week, so it's almost fall in Louisiana.

Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. Eighties. We got into the seventies. I had to put the heat on this morning because it was in the sixties, which is which is kinda odd for late August. How about you guys?

Is this normal for late August? Or

Brandon Cooper (Guest): not really. We usually don't hit get into the eighties until, sometime in September, but we get we got a a lower temp week this week, so it's it's nice.

Shawn Tierney (Host): Yeah. I'm I'm not complaining at all. So you are a senior process control engineer, and, I know you from your what you do with POCs, but you also work on a lot of DCS systems or what would classically be called the DCS. And like I said, he Brandon was on, in episode one zero six. He's written several articles on Rockwell and Siemens.

His latest one was on, simulating e threes, I think, for migration purposes. And he also wrote two articles recently on the things I've learned because, change. And I don't want you to give away the actual companies you worked for, but describe your old old role and the new role you've been doing now to give the audience some perspective on that's kinda how you change roles.

Brandon Cooper (Guest): So I guess for twenty two years, starting at 19 years old, I joined on as basically a process control type technician and then moved up to to a process control engineer and then a senior engineer later, you know, working in in specific specific facilities, you know, doing the day to day program and then graphics and troubleshooting and working with operations at a facility, which is also, you know, being on call twenty four seven for for all those twenty two years. So, it was it was great. I learned a lot and, helped me get to the next step, I guess. So, three years ago, I had the opportunity to take a job, where we travel around and and do things in different sites. And there's, like a like a,