Got High Tech is the training and knowledge platform of Charlie Black: industrial automation, networking and SCADA consultant, builder of five technology centers, and an instructor who believes the best way to learn automation is to do it.
Results-driven industrial technology professional, and a teacher at heart.
Charlie's career spans technical consulting, solution development, sales, customer support, professional training, and the design and implementation of industrial hardware and software. He has worked with small businesses, OEMs, end users, systems integrators, educational institutions and Fortune 500 enterprises.
His core expertise is automation systems, industrial networks, SCADA, secure machine-data acquisition and web-based monitoring. Today he is extending that foundation into industrial cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
Based in Mission Viejo, CA.
Technical leadership is more than managing projects or selling products. It's understanding how systems work, solving problems when things go wrong, and helping people grow.
Understand the technology deeply, then help others apply it with confidence.
Share practical experience with students, engineers, maintenance staff and customers, and make complicated technology easy to use.
Connect concepts to real equipment and real business needs, and leave behind people who can maintain and improve what was built.
Technical consulting, solution development and training for automation, operator control and monitoring, industrial networking, secure VPN connectivity and SCADA, for plants, OEMs and integrators.
Taught PLC components, calibration, diagnostics, documentation and open- and closed-loop control.
Automation, HMI and industrial networking solutions for manufacturers, OEMs and integrators.
Professional and continuing-education instruction in industrial technology.
Led sales, training and marketing for high-technology industrial products.
Ran an Automation Technology Center for demonstrations, training and customer support.
Sales, training and support for automation products.
Orange Coast College: Controls and Automation, Master's Degree Equivalency (2015), determined by department faculty.
DeVry University: Digital Electronics Technician Diploma (1984).
Charlie also co-created Got Monitoring, a 24/7 water-quality monitoring service for commercial water systems.
Visit gotmonitoring.com ↗Over his career Charlie has designed and built five industrial automation technology and training centers, each combining live equipment with hands-on training.
County Wholesale Electric
County Wholesale Electric
RK Controls
Walters Wholesale Electric
The fifth and most advanced center, at RK Controls in Commerce, is where our workshops run. It brings office IT, industrial OT, network management, segmented communications, remote connectivity and dedicated training stations together in one working environment.
Each with an engineering PC, an S7-1200 PLC, a KTP700 operator panel and a SCALANCE XB216 switch.
S7-1200 and KTP700 for live demonstrations.
S7-1200, KTP700 and SIRIUS PROFINET pushbutton stations connected over cellular routers, for real remote-access exercises.
Join an open workshop, or bring Charlie in to train your team on your own equipment.
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