Commissioning delivery
Readiness reviews, QA/QC, testing, integration, witnessing, handover and tuning — planned as one connected delivery process.
Cape Town, South Africa
Hi, I'm Dylan.
I like to break stuff and fix systems. Not always in that order.
Work
I work on complex systems: understanding non-trivial interactions, finding faults that cross boundaries, and getting the whole system to behave as intended.
HVAC and integrated mechanical systems
Central plant, hydronic systems, chillers, pumps, cooling towers, AHUs, FCUs, ventilation, smoke control and the interfaces between them.
Controls, automation and fault diagnosis
Control logic, BMS trends, communications data, sensors, actuators, VSDs and equipment response used together to find faults that refuse to stay inside one discipline.
Engineering software and data
C#, .NET, structured data, validation, Git, Docker and practical tools built when a spreadsheet or standard process stops being enough.
Selected things being built
Physical systems and software, treated with the same curiosity.
Built environment
Commissioned chiller plant
A plant providing 2.8 MW of cooling and 1 MW of heating capacity, taken through commissioning as an integrated system.
Active development
cxPro
A commissioning-domain catalogue and compiler foundation for versioned equipment definitions, project instances, interfaces, obligations and evidence rules.
Architecture and prototype
AirView
An edge-to-host telemetry model for normalising building-system data into historical analysis, fault correlation, remote diagnostics and commissioning evidence.
Hobbies
Things I like spending time on.
- Electronics
- Guitar
- High voltage
- Engineering software and hardware
- Automation and controls
- Gaming
- High-performance anything
Biography
How I got here.
Growing up, I was always fascinated by how and why things did what they did. That curiosity took me from programming computers to building induction heaters and Tesla coils. Following that simple question—how and why—led me down various avenues of interest, and it has defined both my career and personal development.
2019–2020
Electrical systems
Control-panel design, estimating, component selection, manufacturing support, installation and fault-finding.
2021–2022
Programming and technical instruction
Programming, debugging, computer architecture, operating systems and general IT.
2022–2023
Internal software and operational data
Maintaining operational software and improving the workflows around it.
2023
Commissioning technician
Testing, balancing, equipment setup, controls troubleshooting, investigation and handover.
2023–present
Commissioning engineer
Planning, QA/QC, integration, witnessing, project recovery, handover and optimisation.