The Discipline of IIoT Engineering
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June 17, 2018
[updated June 17, 2018] Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Engineering is a discipline in and of itself - somewhat a macro-discipline. The IIoT engineer is focused on the extension of the organization into a field-level mentality of acquisition, preparation, analysis, reaction, automation, assessm
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Tags: Analytics, Digital Transformation, IoT
The Journey into DevOPS as a Mindset, not a Project
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May 28, 2018
DevOps as a project is a failed premise since projects complete, DevOps is ongoing, ever improving. DevOps as a continuous improvement project is a non sequitur since the Agile / DevOps process cannot evolve from a waterfall mindset. DevOps as a journey is inconclusive since a journey...
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Tags: Digital Transformation, Agile, DevOps
The Data Driven Mindset
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May 18, 2018
Just what is Data Driven? Or for that matter, what is a Data Driven Mindset? Why does it matter to identify Data Driven concepts? Starting from the basics, Data Driven "means that progress in an activity is compelled by data, rather than by intuition or by personal experience. Data-driven may refer
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Three Catalysts of Digital Transformation
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May 17, 2018
Digital Transformation is rapidly becoming the new, and overused, buzzword. There are many opinions of what constitutes Digital Transformation and many proposed magic solutions to Digital Transformation. But Digital Transformation is not an action or event, it is a journey. Even more than a journey...
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Spring Houston TechFest
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May 07, 2018
Software developers are constantly challenged with staying current and mastering new technologies. Developers who do not continually strive to learn new technologies will soon find themselves no longer relevant. Some technologies radically impact the entire industry while others are more impacting t
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Digitization, Digitalization and Digital Transformation
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May 02, 2018
[updated May 17, 2018] Three terms I’ve seen recently used together, often interchangeably and frequently incorrectly are digitization, digitalization, and digital transformation. Given the name of this blog – Digital Transformation Engineer – I have an opinion...
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This Digital Transformation Web Site and Blog
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April 27, 2018
[updated May 17, 2018] DigitalTransformation.Engineer This www.DigitalTransformation.Engineer website and blog site is a personal creation; a personal labor-of-love project. Through this site and these blogs, I hope to shed a little light on the evolving industry – software, analytics, machine
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SPE Digital Energy Conference
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April 24, 2018
Energy Forum: BP keynoter Clint Wood, “Communication continuum goes as follows: chaos – noise – data – information – knowledge – wisdom.” Interesting quotes heard during the conference. Data Mining ==> How to pull the data together, then listen to it. Ar
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The Fourth Paradigm
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April 24, 2018
The fourth paradigm ==> Emperical Theoretical Computational Today: Data intensive data exploitation
The post The Fourth Paradigm appeared first on Mark Reynolds.
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2017-2018 Distance C# Development Classes
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July 24, 2017
Once again Lonestar College will be offering distance-only C# development classes in the Spring of 2016-2017. Classes to be taught this semester are: Programming Fundamentals (COSC1336) Introduces the fundamental concepts of structured programming. Topics include software development methodology, da
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2016-2017 Distance C# Development Classes
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July 01, 2016
Once again Lone Star College will be offering distance-only C# development classes in the Spring of 2016-2017.
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Getting Rid of Excel
Digital Energy Journal
August 01, 2012
Modern technology and development tools, technologies, and organizations permit faster development and increased reliability, but at the cost of a step-change in the skillset resident in the business units. The pain of moving from procedural based programming languages like VBA into object based / team based environments can be difficult but the payoff is tremendous.
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Tags: Analytics, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation
Managing Real Time Data - A Tutorial
Digital Energy Journal
June 01, 2012
Real-time physical data represents a unique challenge for the data engineer. Unlike financial and accounting data, which must be 1200 per cent accurate and can be audited back to the source, real-time data in the physical world suffers from sampling errors, missing data, and diminishing temporal significance.
Real-time data management grows more complex every day. The data collected and data sampling rates are creating data repository issues unimagined a few years ago. And the operational functionality and utilization is still evolving. Data and real-time operations require a systematic and visionary understanding of the challenges. Real-time data management encompasses knowledge in electrical and mechanical apparatus, communications protocols and systems, and streaming data technologies.
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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, IoT
Service Company IT and Corporate IT
Digital Energy Journal
April 01, 2012
Who is responsible for fitting together IT from service companies and the corporate IT department? The business unit managers. Are they the best people to do it?
When expectation for business unit teams to respond to ever tight tolerances to time, production, and HSE, the case for the business unit, operations-focused, development team becomes more readily apparent.
Business unit software and data systems development teams can, and will, make money for the organization through improved and faster drilling, improved production, and reduced HSE, NPT, and asset downtime.
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Tags: Digital Transformation, Open Innovation, Culture
Extension Methods
Code Magazine
April 01, 2012
Extension methods represent a simple method to incorporate features and functions into basic C# types without complexities or code rewrite. Through extension methods, the developer “adds” methods to existing types without creating new derived classes. The original base class remains intact, but new methods are now merged with the base class.
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Why do we want C# 7
Houston Techfest
May 05, 2018
Technical talk presented at Houston .NET User Group, North Houston .NET User Group, Houston Spring Techfest.
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Defensive Programming
Houston Techfest
May 05, 2018
Technical talk presented at Houston Spring Techfest.
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The New IT Paradigm in a Data Driven Energy
2018 Machine Learning in Oil and Gas Conference
April 18, 2018
Three years ago, Machine Learning, 4th Scientific Paradigm, and eScience were seldom discussed in O&G. Today, these topics and the role of data, data knowledge, and artificial intelligence are topics found in planning, engineering, and improvement. The New IT Paradigm and the pragmatic realities of Data Driven Energy are explored in this presentation.
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Tags: AI, Analytics, Digital Transformation
