Bryant Hayden

SUDS - Soap Usage & Dispensing System (in production, multi-plant rollout planned)

• Built an end-to-end water quality monitoring and automated dosing system for the plant's glass washer, owning the stack from sensor to user interface.
• Delivered the four-tank system for $3,051 against a $35,850 commercial vendor quote, a 91% cost reduction, with Ignition-native trending, alarming, and dosing control included rather than quoted separately.
• Diagnosed cross-sensor interference in the prototype and specified four industrial isolated conductivity probes and transducers for stable independent per-tank readings, moving the system from proof of concept to production grade.
• Developed Python edge software and a data normalization layer on a Revolution Pi gateway behind an Ignition Perspective front end for live monitoring, alarming, and remote control.

Ignition Laser Etcher & Serialization System

• Developed a full-stack Ignition and Python replacement for a deprecated Java etching platform, restoring serialized traceability and projecting $143K+ savings over three years, architected toward a five-site, 11-line rollout.
• Built an operator interface handling batches of roughly 5,000 records across 500 pages with responsive navigation, supporting lines etching thousands of lites per day.
• Gathered requirements with operations and quality, then built across PLC tag integration, Jython scripting, SQL-backed configuration, vendor equipment communications, and ERP-to-MES data flow.

Plant Floor Visibility Platform

• Designed a real-time Ignition Perspective floor map and dashboard suite surfacing live equipment status, downtime conditions, alarms, and KPIs in a single interface.
• Integrated OPC UA endpoints alongside MES data; presented the platform to senior leadership and the North America plant manager network as a designated best practice, driving inbound adoption requests from other sites.

MES (L2L) Implementation & API Integration

• Led site rollout of L2L production, downtime, quality, and reporting modules aligned to enterprise standards.
• Developed against the externally hosted Leading2Lean REST API to move production data programmatically, with data mappings that automated machine data capture and eliminated manual operator entry.

IIoT Edge Gateway Standardization

• Standardized Revolution Pi deployments using reusable images and Python/Node-RED configurations, bringing legacy equipment into MQTT and OPC UA data streams.
• Reduced per-unit deployment to roughly two hours through a documented three-step playbook, now the model for L2L machine integration across 31+ plants in North America.

Autonomous Rubik's Cube Solving Robot

Built an autonomous robot integrating Python, computer vision, Raspberry Pi/Linux, actuator control, CAD, and 3D-printed components; developed software to capture cube state, compute solutions, and coordinate motion end to end. Managed with Git and structured debugging, documented with a full build guide and bill of materials.

Full-Stack Wordle Game

Co-developed a browser-based word game in Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL, and YAML using Scrum boards and GitHub, iterating on UI/UX from user feedback.