Our team spans the core disciplines of modern industrial automation, including SCADA and HMI, PLC applications, electrical design, instrumentation, motion control, industrial networking, OT cybersecurity, functional safety, and commissioning. Together we cover plant wide supervisory systems, structured multi platform PLC software, UL/CE panel design, measurement and valve packages, servo and drive integration, plant floor networks, IEC 62443 hardening, and safety instrumented functions across manufacturing, process, oilfield, utility, and other high risk industrial environments.
We also bring experience in remote oilfield automation, regulated utility sector controls, and multi discipline commissioning through FAT, SAT, start up, and first production. As a team, we support full lifecycle project execution from design and software through networking, safety, commissioning, and operational handover.
Jonathan Mark Vincent — Founder, CEO & Principal
Founder and CEO of Vincent Technologies, Jonathan leads the company while staying deeply involved in automation and controls engineering. An IET mentor and Certified Machinery Safety Expert (CMSE), he works hands on across Siemens, Rockwell, Schneider, Emerson/GE, and Beckhoff platforms, and supports developing engineers through the IET alongside running the business.
Jonathan founded Vincent Technologies while working as a senior controls and design engineer for a major oilfield equipment group, building on project experience spanning manufacturing, oil and gas, and utilities.
Claire Donovan — Executive Assistant & PA
is Jonathan’s Office Manager and Executive PA, responsible for the smooth commercial and administrative operation of the business. She manages all diary and travel logistics, client communication, proposals, and project documentation. She coordinates the engineering team to keep meetings, deadlines, and site activities running efficiently, supporting Jonathan’s focus on technical delivery and client outcomes.
Before joining Vincent Technologies, she was Office Manager and Executive PA to the Managing Director of a multi discipline engineering practice.
Elena Walsh — Functional Safety
Senior functional safety engineer for new and existing plants, responsible for SIL determination, safety requirements specifications, and verification to IEC 61511 and IEC 62061. Her work includes design and integration with process control systems, covering both new build and brownfield safety PLC packages. She supports projects from early hazard analysis through to commissioning, ensuring safety instrumented functions are correctly specified, implemented, and validated.
Elena’s background includes working as a functional safety engineer within a specialist safety consultancy, delivering process industry SIL assessments and SRS packages and gaining experience in applying functional safety lifecycle requirements across a wide range of industrial environments.
Marcus Hale — Industrial Networks
Senior industrial network engineer for plant floor and cell level systems, designing and commissioning PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, Modbus TCP, and OPC UA networks. His scope includes redundant topologies, cell segmentation, and fieldbus to Ethernet migrations, with work covering plant wide network design for live production cells. He focuses on ensuring robust, maintainable network architectures that support modern automation platforms and high availability production environments.
Marcus previously worked for a controls OEM as a plant network design engineer, delivering rollout projects across a range of industrial communication technologies and gaining experience in upgrading legacy systems while maintaining production continuity.
Callum Reid — Motion & Drives
Motion control engineer for machine and line applications, specifying and commissioning servos, variable‑frequency drives, and coordinated motion. He integrates the drive layer with the PLC on packaging, converting, and other high speed equipment, with work including first article drive commissioning and motion to PLC integration. His role spans from drive system specification through to tuning and optimisation, ensuring machines achieve the required performance and repeatability.
Callum joined Vincent Technologies after working as a motion applications engineer with a drive and servo manufacturer, where he gained experience supporting OEMs and end users with motion system design, commissioning, and troubleshooting.
Ryan Bennett — Instrumentation
Instrumentation engineer for process and machine packages, specifying transmitters, control valves, and analysers. He produces loop design, I/O allocation, and instrument documentation for control system software, with work covering measurement packages for both brownfield upgrades and new build process plant. His role includes ensuring instruments interface cleanly with PLC and DCS layers and meet the requirements of both process and controls teams.
Ryan’s background includes instrumentation engineering with a process engineering firm, focusing on brownfield process measurement packages and the challenges of integrating new instruments into live plant environments.
Lauren Brooks — SCADA & HMI
Senior SCADA and HMI engineer for plant wide supervisory systems, implementing AVEVA / Wonderware, WinCC and FactoryTalk across production and utility environments. Her scope covers graphics standards, alarm management, historian configuration, and remote operations support, with work focused on integrated plant wide supervisory systems rather than standalone screens. She ensures SCADA layers align with control system architecture and provide operators with clear, consistent, and maintainable interfaces.
Lauren has an extensive background working as a SCADA engineer for a major oilfield equipment group, delivering plant wide supervisory systems and gaining experience in standardising graphics, structuring alarms, and deploying SCADA platforms across live industrial sites.
Nathan Clarke — OT Cybersecurity
OT cybersecurity engineer for industrial control networks, implementing IEC 62443 zoning, secure remote access, and network hardening on live manufacturing and process plants. His scope includes segmentation, remote access design, and control network hardening, with work focused on running plants rather than laboratory networks. He supports projects that require strengthening OT environments while maintaining production continuity and alignment with control system architecture.
Nathan joined Vincent Technologies after OT security work on manufacturing and process plant networks with a specialist industrial security practice, gaining experience in applying IEC 62443 principles to real world industrial sites and improving the security posture of legacy and modern control systems.
Andrew Ellis — Control Panels
Electrical design engineer for industrial control panels, producing layouts, schematics, bills of materials, and as built documentation. He designs to UL and CE requirements and coordinates closely with software and instrumentation teams to ensure panel designs integrate cleanly with control system architecture. His work includes complete enclosure design packages for project delivery, covering power distribution, control wiring, and component selection.
His background includes working as an electrical design engineer with a certified industrial panel builder, gaining experience in delivering compliant, production ready control panels and supporting manufacturing through build, test, and commissioning.
Ethan Park — PLC Software
PLC application engineer for the platforms used on the firm’s projects, developing software in TIA Portal, Studio 5000, EcoStruxure, Codesys, Emerson/GE, and TwinCAT. His focus is structured application software and documentation for handover and long term support, with work covering multi platform PLC application delivery across both machine level and plant level systems. He ensures software is maintainable, clearly organised, and aligned with project standards.
Ethan brings a wealth of knowledge and joined Vincent Technologies after serving as a PLC application engineer on multi‑platform projects with a controls consultancy, gaining experience in delivering consistent application software across diverse automation platforms and supporting clients through commissioning and lifecycle maintenance.
Jordan Blake — Oilfield Automation
Oilfield automation engineer for upstream and midstream sites, developing well pad, gathering, and remote SCADA systems for unmanned locations. He works with RTUs and plant grade protocols where communications and power are constrained, designing control solutions suited to remote production environments. His scope includes remote oilfield control systems for production and midstream assets, ensuring reliable operation across dispersed field infrastructure.
He joined Vincent Technologies after working as an automation engineer with an oilfield projects group, delivering production site and midstream control projects and gaining experience in applying automation standards to live upstream and midstream facilities.
Cole Mercer — Commissioning
Senior commissioning engineer for installed control systems, planning and executing site acceptance testing, start up, and handover through first production. He coordinates PLC, drives, instrumentation, and SCADA on the installed plant, ensuring approved designs transition smoothly into operational equipment. His work centers on taking engineered control packages through first production and resolving integration issues on live systems.
Cole was commissioning engineer with a leading systems integrator, covering FAT, SAT, and start up on multi discipline control packages and gaining hands on experience bringing complex automation systems online.
Patrick Shaw — Energy & Utilities
Energy and utilities controls engineer for generation, water, and utility assets, delivering process logic, interlocks, and SCADA on plant operating under regulated change control. His scope includes sequences, protection interlocks, and supervisory systems, with work focused on utility sector controls that require formal change management processes. He supports projects where reliability, compliance, and clear operational documentation are central to system delivery.
Patrick’s immediate previous role was process controls engineer on generation and water utility projects with a utilities sector consultancy, gaining experience in controls for regulated assets and in delivering automation changes within formal governance frameworks.