Tulsa Topics: What I Do?

I always get a chuckle when someone asks my wife or my parents, "What does Bobby do?" First of all that is a fair question especially from someone that is close to you. My work title officially is a "Senior Controls Specialist" which in real world terms means whatever it takes to get a job done when I'm on it. The bulk of my work is related to being an industrial computer geek. I write, simulate, integrate, and commission programs used on equipment that utilize Industrial Computers and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC's) for automation. This encompasses almost every industry. So far this year I've worked in the Petroleum Industry, the food industry, the manufacturing industry, and the pharmaceutical industry. Sometimes this is drop dead simple, sometimes it encompasses many late hours at the jobsite. Basically in my line of work every day is a new day and every project a challenge.

At the end of the day, or when I return from being on the road, my wife will ask me what I did and I guess I sound something like the following YouTube video to her because she usually gets kind of blurry eyed before I finish.