Employees

Key Personnel

Daniel K. Perrier, P.E.
President
Kansas State University
B.S. Electrical Engineering

Dan Perrier founded Automated Control Systems, Inc. (ACSI) in 1995 and has been involved in the design, development, deployment, maintenance, and operation of control systems for over 18 years.  Prior to starting ACSI, Mr. Perrier worked in a variety of positions from project engineer, maintenance manager, plant engineer, and plant manager of a manufacturing plant with over 300 employees.  Since 1997 he has been the chief SCADA and PLC system architect on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers GDACS Project (Generic Data Acquisition and Control System).  GDACS is one of the largest open automation projects in the world with over 250 PLCs, over 30,000 I/O points, and over 100 SCADA computers running advanced power generation applications that control more than 20% of the hydro power supply in the U.S. (over 1% of the total power production in the U.S.).  Mr. Perrier is a registered Professional Engineer in Control System and Electrical Engineering and received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University in 1989.

Dave R. Brown
Senior Software Developer
Western State College of Colorado
B.S. Mathematics

Dave Brown has over 25 years of experience in the design, development, deployment, and maintenance of advance computing systems.  Mr. Brown served in the role of chief architect of the GDACS application software development, directing the development efforts of a software team of eight developers.  Prior to this, Dave served in many key capacities on vital infrastructure projects within Bonneville Power Administration where he enhanced the original computer failover software to operate in a hot standby mode for one of the critical BPA computer systems and directed a workforce of over 15 developers.  Mr. Brown received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Western State College of Colorado in 1982.

Brett A. Hunsaker
Senior Software Developer
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
B.S. Math/Computer Science

Brett Hunsaker brings 21 years of programming experience to ACSI.  Since 1998 he has been a system architect on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers GDACS Project, with primary responsibility for the design, networking configuration, software installation and maintenance procedures and software development in C++, Java, Vbscript and Perl.  Among his extensive project experience, he worked as a Senior Software Programmer on the Real-Time Operations Dispatch Systems Replacement project for Bonneville Power Administration.  Mr. Hunsaker received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics/Computer Science in 1984 from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, IN.

David Percival
Senior Software Developer
Trinity University
B.S.,M.S. Engineering Science

David Percival has over 22 years of experience in software design and development. He has been an integral member of the development team for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers GDACS Project since 1997, making key contributions to application interface alarms, Generation and Spill Control, real-time and historical system data requirements primarily utilizing C++.  Among his extensive project experience, he provided technical leadership for the replacement of the Puget Sound Power & Light Energy Management System.  Mr. Percival received his Master and Bachelor of Science degrees in Engineering from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX in 1979 and 1971.

Joseph R. Swatosh
Senior Software Developer
University of Washington
B.S. Math, concentration in Numerical Analysis

Joe Swatosh brings over 19 years of programming excellence to ACSI. Specializing in Object Oriented Analysis and Design, eXtreme Programming (XP), Design and Analysis Patterns, C++, and Unified Modeling Language (UML), he has been an integral part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers GDACS Project since 1998.  Prior to his involvement with GDACS, he designed and implemented procedures to maintain Bonneville Power Administration’s Power System Security Tools and SCADA replacement projects.  Mr. Swatosh received his Bachelor of Science in Numerical Analysis from the University of Washington in 1986.

Amonique R. Brown
Software Developer
Vanderbilt University
B.S. Computer Science

Amonique Brown joined ACSI in 2002 and has spent the last 6 years developing her expertise in the design of relational database systems utilizing VB.NET, VB, VBA, VBScript, C#, SQL, HTML, PERL and JAVA. She has been instrumental in the development of Safe Clearance and Employee database applications used at a number of USACE project sites. Ms. Brown received her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with a minor in Management of Technology in 2001 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

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The breadth of experience in software development and project management skills represented by our developers enables ACSI to provide superior development and integration services to our clients across a wide range of computing platforms.

For more information about Automated Control Systems, Inc., please contact:

Daniel K. Perrier, P.E.
President
360.737.6654 ext. 205
Dan Perrier