Andrew Mcdaniel
Conceptual Design Engineer at Black & Veatch
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Mcdaniel is a Conceptual Design Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience in high- and medium-voltage substation design, estimating, and construction oversight, currently shaping collector substations and switchyards from 500 kV to 34.5 kV at Black & Veatch in Houston. He combines field-level experience refurbishing medium-voltage switchgear with project management skills gained on mission-critical construction sites, coordinating trades, schedules, and client communications to deliver safe, on-budget projects. Technically versed in protection & controls, relay schemes, physical layouts, and material takeoffs, he bridges detailed engineering with early-stage conceptual estimating. Outside power systems, Andrew pursues software and hardware projects—building human-centered tools like Companion-TheCube—bringing an entrepreneurial maker mindset to multidisciplinary engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Undergraduate Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Houston
Github Skills (10)
cpp9
client-library9
https-server9
http8
http-server8
continuous-integration5
compile5
arduino5
javascript3
nodejs3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
andrewmcdan/open-hardware-monitor
Mar 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 354 issues in 6 years 1 month
andrewmcdan/Tactical_Mapping
Jun 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:181 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 3 months
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