Mike Ochtman
Service Manager at HMH
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Ochtman is a seasoned Service Manager and control & instrumentation specialist with over 30 years of hands-on experience across mining, marine, and offshore oil & gas projects worldwide. He designs, commissions, and maintains PLC, HMI, SCADA and drive systems, having delivered complex vessel propulsion, drilling machinery, and DMS plant integrations using Siemens, Mitsubishi, ABB and GE platforms. Comfortable leading multicultural commissioning teams, he combines field leadership with deep protocol expertise (PROFINET, PROFIBUS, Modbus, Ethernet) and standards knowledge for DNV/ABS/NORSOK compliance. Recently he has prototyped embedded PID-control products end-to-end—3D design, PCB in KiCad, AVR firmware and manufacturing—reflecting a practical maker’s curiosity alongside industrial-scale delivery. Based in the Western Cape, he is actively seeking global automation opportunities with an interest in sustainable energy and mentoring the next generation of instrumentation engineers.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Matric Certificate, Academic, Matric Certificate, Academic at Witbank High SchoolNational Diploma (NQF 6), Electrical Engineering, light current, National Diploma (NQF 6), Electrical Engineering, light current at Vaal University of Technology (Formerly Vaal Triangle Technikon)
English, Afrikaans, German
Github Skills (9)
bus7
smbus6
raspberry6
i2c6
arduino5
raspberry-pi4
esp323
espressif2
esp-idf2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MikeOchtman/Another-KiCAD-Bill-Of-Materials-script
Mar 2017 - Jan 2021
A Python 2.7 script that integrates with KiCAD EESchema to create BOM for spreadsheet or for browser viewing
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
pythonbrowserkicadbompython-2
MikeOchtman/Pi_Arduino_I2C
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 5 months
smbusraspberry-pii2craspberrybus
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