Scott Sutton has been a self-employed consultant for over 15 years at his company Henry Hansel, designing, building and automating state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment. His experience and capabilities include mechanical design using SolidWorks 3D, creation of the supporting electrical and drive systems, and automation using PC, PLC and/or embedded approaches. He routinely programs in Python for data acquisition, production reporting and more, and he holds a U.S. patent for an automatic respirator usage tracker.