Mike Allen
President at Hindsight Consulting, Inc.
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMike Allen is an experienced operations and simulation leader with 19 years transforming manufacturing, production, and distribution facilities into higher-throughput, lower-risk, money-making operations. As president of Hindsight Consulting and former Director of Virtual Environments at FORTNA, he pioneered virtual commissioning, digital twins with live data links, and automated emulation toolchains that cut manual model-building waste and enabled low-risk PLC and control software testing. He blends deep simulation and controls expertise with pragmatic, evidence-based decision making, delivering scalable, data-driven control software and networked systems. Mike is also a Scala simulation developer who champions simplifying complexity, mentoring teams, and creating a single source of truth for automation—skills he applied to high-profile projects for the US Navy, Kiva, and major OEMs. Notably, he built whole-site virtual environments and a sub-10 ms live visualization proof-of-concept, demonstrating his focus on practical, high-fidelity digital replicas.
19 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Systems Modelling, Mathematics, Statistics, Operational Research, Computing, BSc (Hons) Systems Modelling, Mathematics, Statistics, Operational Research, Computing at Sheffield Hallam University
Stackoverflow
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sbt
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Github Skills (132)
simulation-modeling10
scalafx10
zinc10
3d10
agent-based-simulation10
statistics10
operations-research10
discrete-event-simulation10
background-service10
functional-reactive-programming10
sbt-plugin10
sbt10
simulation-framework10
java10
scala10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Facsimile/facsimile
Aug 2006 - May 2020
Facsimile Simulation Library
Contributions:2 releases, 778 commits, 38 PRs in 13 years 11 months
facsimilejavasimulationsimulation-library3d
Facsimile/sfx
Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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