Sam McJunkin

About Sam McJunkin

I am an engineering executive with over 20 years of experience leading and scaling…

Experience

1. Director of Verification & Validation

   Sarcos Robotics

   Aug 2020 — Present · Salt Lake City, UT, US

   Responsible for end to end design verification of hardware and validation of complete systems to ensure customer satisfaction. Team has developed standardized and automated testing solutions using LabVIEW and National Instruments HW to establish key performance indicators (KPIs). This effort is part of the corporate transformation from a research & development focus to production at scale by establishing measurable baselines and trends that demonstrate improvements with respect to process capability. Team also develops assists development teams to retire risk during the design process by designing and conducting tests whose results can definitively redirect design efforts sooner and more effectively resulting in products that reach the market more quickly with lower development cost.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Master's Degree

  1999 — 2001

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Bachelor's Degree

  1995 — 1999

• Rice University

  PhD

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Petroleum
• Offshore Oil & Gas
• Feed
• Pressure Vessels
• Upstream Processing
• Employee Training
• Control Systems Design
• Real-Time Control Systems
• Gas
• Microsoft Office
• Upstream
• Project Engineering
• Hazop Study
• Offshore Drilling
• Ni Labview
• Matlab
• Subsea Engineering
• Petrochemical
• Oil & Gas
• C++
• Project Management
• Machinery Diagnostics
• Risk Assessment
• Mechatronics
• Pipelines
• Fortran
• Fmeca
• Oil/Gas
• Hazard Identification