Jesse Cox
Vice President Automation Sales & Industry Management, Americas
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Cox is an automation and sales leader with nine years of focused experience in industrial automation and a two-decade career in electrification and controls. Currently Vice President of Automation Sales & Industry Management for the Americas at WAGO, he blends technical depth—grounded in hands-on IIoT and Linux application engineering—with strategic go-to-market leadership. He has risen internally through roles spanning applications engineering, product training, and sales management, giving him a rare combination of customer-facing empathy and product development insight. Jesse is skilled at translating open-source and edge-compute approaches into measurable business outcomes for OEMs and system integrators. Based in Portland, he is known for pragmatic change management that reduces friction between engineering and sales teams while accelerating adoption of modern automation platforms. Beyond titles, he brings a trainer’s mindset—turning complex technical capabilities into usable solutions that drive revenue and customer success.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Portland State University
Github Skills (5)
iec61131-37
js6
python5
linux5
firmware2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jessejamescox/kbus-daemon-installer
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 release, 69 commits, 61 pushes in 8 months
jessejamescox/wago_demo_programs
Jul 2018 - Oct 2022
Demo programs for WAGO LPCs and remote IO systems. THese projects are mostly IEC61131-3 environment projects and in some cases supporting programs in C, Python, JS, and .ipk files for WAGO Linux controllers.
Contributions:50 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 4 years 3 months
iec61131-3jslinuxpython
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