Summary
Andy Henderson is an owner and manufacturing-focused engineer with a Ph.D. in Automotive Engineering and nine years of industry experience translating academic research into production-ready solutions across manufacturing, energy, and digital systems. He has led technology and data science teams as CTO and VP of Engineering, built shop-floor data acquisition prototypes at GE, and founded Hendtech to deliver practical manufacturing and energy innovations. At Clemson he bridged industry and education—designing an automotive manufacturing course and chairing an NSF-backed THINKER advisory board to integrate human factors with digital manufacturing. Comfortable at the intersection of hands-on process engineering and IIoT/AI-driven analytics, he helps organizations reduce downtime and optimize operations. Based in the Greenville-Spartanburg area, he pairs academic rigor with real-world deployment experience, often taking on roles that require both technical depth and stakeholder alignment.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Automotive Engineering, PhD, Automotive Engineering at Clemson University
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Augusta State University