Summary
Sam Hartzog is a chemical engineer-turned-entrepreneur with seven years of formal tech experience and a longer track record in process control and manufacturing systems. As Co-Founder and Chief Data Officer at Hank AI, Inc., he blends strategy, finance, web development, and hands-on outreach to turn data insights into products and business value. His background includes a decade of industrial control work—supporting D/3 distributed control systems, MSSQL/Oracle data collection, and batch/continuous process optimization for MillerCoors and Savannah River projects. Sam also sustains contractor roles supporting brewery operations, showing a pragmatic ability to bridge operations and software. Based in St. George, SC, he brings an atypical combination of plant-floor domain expertise and startup execution instincts that helps translate complex physical processes into deployable data systems.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Dorchester Academy
Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemical Engineering at University of South Carolina