Todd Malone

Todd Malone is the WinCC Open Architecture Specialist for MCS.  Todd has worked with WinCC OA exclusively since 2011.  Todd's training and certifications for OA include Basic, Engineer and Consultant with special training in Security, Database and large scale project designs.

Background and Education

Todd has a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from Montana State University with a Computer Engineering Option in 1988. 

Todd's professional career started in SCADA with FactoryLink software by USDATA in 1988.  With USDATA and the companies who acquired them, he worked as many different technical positions.  The final position of Technical Product Manager gave Todd insights into the software development process and large project management experience.  During his time with FactoryLink, Todd was published twice in I&CS magazine

Siemens was the last acquisition for the FactoryLink team in 2008.  It was with Siemens that Todd was assigned to work with the WinCC OA product.  His focus was pre-sales architectures and prototypes.  Other responsibilities included technical support, field service and project launch reviews. 

Todd has seen hundreds of SCADA systems.  He has seen SCADA software grow up from MS DOS to Unix to Windows to Linux.  Todd is passionate about the OA product and believes that it is the premiere product in the SCADA segment today.