email: craig.champlin at me.com
linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/craigchamplin
In addition to nurturing a business dedicated to pipeline monitoring with SIDs, Craig is a doctoral candidate in Electrical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. His dissertation is about signal analysis for pipeline monitoring. Craig holds an MS in wireless sensing from CSM and a bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering with three minors in Materials Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Craig entered the pipeline integrity management field in 2003 when a local company, Bass Trigon, had a single-user pipeline information management system (PIMS) that they wanted to convert to a multi-user enterprise application. They hired him because of his enterprise-level software experience. They liked that even though he developed software applications, he had an engineering background.
When his wife died, leaving him to raise 4 and 6-year-old boys, he enrolled in grad school at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) to focus on signal analysis for pipeline monitoring while staying close to home with the kids. He has been a devoted father, volunteering in the classroom and serving as a soccer and mountain biking coach.
While at the School of Mines, he has chased many interesting ideas. He has written many papers on subjects related to monitoring. He has a patent in the field. He was awarded a competitive academic grant from PHMSA and has won and placed in design competitions. He is most proud of working with dozens of undergraduate students to introduce them to the topic.
Notable pre-pipeline projects include senior roles in building the National Football League’s first web store NFLShop.com, and an early web-based online airline reservation system for SABER systems.
Related content
- About this blog
- Some of my projects
- Upstream Vee – My pipeline monitoring with small inspection devices company
- Bass Trigon software was absorbed by OneBridge’s Cognitive Integrity Management
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