Summary
Charlie Gifford is a senior industrial transformation consultant and program manager with 35+ years leading over 50 Industry 4.0, IIoT, AI/ML and digital twin projects across ten industries. A Master Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Agile Coach and internationally recognized ISA/IEC standards editor, he blends rigorous continuous improvement methods with information modeling to produce defendable ROI, operations-to-finance metrics, and production-ready MOM/MES architectures. He has been chief editor of ISA-95/IEC 62264 parts and founded multiple industry education and standards working groups, driving event-driven pub-sub models and serialization standards now used in regulated supply chains. Equally comfortable as an end-user, consultant, and vendor, Charlie designs rapid tech-transfer and recipe/metadata frameworks for biotech and life-sciences scaleup as well as decision automation for heavy industry. Notably, he built and accredited the MESA Global Education Program that trained thousands worldwide and has authored five books, 65 papers and five standards that bridge manufacturing practice and machine-actionable information models.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Charles County Community College
BS, 3 yr Grad work, Chem E, Material E, and Physics, BS, 3 yr Grad work, Chem E, Material E, and Physics at University of Maryland