Process Plugins Founder and President Joe Devine teamed up with Ken Potter, Mark Bowles and Rebekah Atkinson. Together our team brings over thirty years experience in software-systems design; that includes installation, engineering, project management, and international business development. We have performed thousands of calculations with the OSIsoft infrastructure and all of the new features makes the calculations extremely repeatable and scalable. Our team knows the technology.
Joe Devine earned his civil and mechanical engineering degrees while working as a pipe-fitter who helped build process plants. He subsequently worked as a plant engineer and, later, in international business-development and economic analysis for the power industry. For the last twelve years, Joe has dealt almost exclusively with OSIsoft’s products, becoming expert in enterprise-level design, installation, training, and value-added applications of the OSIsoft™ PI System™.
Ken Potter, a Gulf War veteran of the United States Navy, worked most of his six years aboard the submarine USS Spadefish as a nuclear-trained Engineering Laboratory Technician (ELT). He earned his M.S. in mechanical engineering at Penn State and in 1999 became licensed as a New York State Professional Engineer. He worked for eleven years at General Physics Corporation, where he served as Supervisor of Application Engineering. At General Physics, Ken developed monitoring systems for over one hundred individual power plant units. He’s been a project manager, a classroom instructor, a key developer of engineering methodologies (used in online performance monitoring), and he is a clever computer programmer, as well.
Rebekah Atkinson, Rebekah joined our team after more than 10 years with OSIsoft where she held an array of positions from field service to product manager for the PI WebParts product and PI Interfaces. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Washington State University.
Mark Bowles, Senior Developer and Application Consultant, leveraged his power-industry experience at the Calpine Corporation, where he served as Application Engineer and Senior Technical Analyst. Mark worked as PI system expert for Calpine and was there responsible for, among other things, procuring, installing, operating, and maintaining twenty-two PI data-historian servers. He’s loaded countless operating systems and PI historian software products; he’s assembled innumerable servers; he’s honed to a razor’s edge his troubleshooting skills from years of on-call, round-the-clock service for over eighty PI systems and over eight hundred Calpine PI users.
Under Joe’s leadership, along with the expertise and experience of Ken Potter Mark Bowles and Rebekah Atkinson, Process Plugins will optimize your plant’s information-processing capability.
