Meet the Team
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Stephen Judd
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As director of Strategic, Stephen values the close relationships we have with everyone we work with and enjoys listening to understand their unique and diverse perspectives.
In a commitment to quality, his team completed a system for a local water district with minimal downtime and zero defects, employing computer science and programming best practices like code reuse, abstraction, clear user-interface design keeping systems easy to verify and maintain.
Another project saved a local electric utility $100k by building a sustainable SCADA system using templates, upgrading Wonderware to Ignition, creating PLC function blocks, add-on instructions (AOI’s), and corresponding user data types (UDT’s) for their devices including SEL-751, SEL-351, S&C IntelliRupter, S&C Trip Savers, Fault Indicators, EATON-F6 Recloser Controls, and EATON-CL7 Voltage Regulators.
Stephen channels his love for puzzles and creating systems into songwriting, strategy games, and learning languages.
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Joseph Nitti
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Joseph is both a Systems Integrator and Project Manager who runs on understanding problems, architecting solutions, and lots of coffee. He is a seasoned utility operations and technology professional with over 30 years of experience across water and electric sectors. In the Water Utilities Industry, he spent eight years advancing IT billing systems and operational support for their technological infrastructure. He later joined the Electric Service Industry, dedicating 12 years to IT, OT, and field operations, ultimately serving as IT Manager and Superintendent.
Throughout his career, Joseph has led high-impact initiatives, including the design and implementation of advanced metering systems, the successful rollout of Oracle’s Customer Care & Billing (CC&B) platform, and the development of a SCADA system tailored for electric utility operations. His robust understanding of billing, metering, network services, and SCADA systems lends a unique cross-discipline perspective as he leads enterprise-scale utility modernization projects.
In his spare time, you can catch him cooking, absorbed in a good book, hiking, and playing the guitar.
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Collin McGee
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Collin is a SCADA Systems Integrator with a broad skill set spanning automation, networking, and cybersecurity. With experience across platforms like Ignition, Wonderware, FactoryTalk, and Citect, he specializes in designing and supporting resilient control systems for industrial environments. His background includes PLC programming, network architecture, radio communications, and secure remote access—making him a key contributor to field-ready and future-proof solutions.
In addition to engineering smart systems, Collin supports business development and client success with sharp technical insight and clear communication. He’s known for diving into complex problems with curiosity and grit—and occasionally solving them with Python, SQL, or just a well-placed Wireshark capture.
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Mon Susarno
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As a systems integrator on the Strategic team, Mon takes ownership of solving challenges and follows up to align with everyone on schedule and project requirements. He recently designed an HMI system for the nation’s first commercial off-short windfarm using SEL RTAC HMI and SEL-3555 RTACs in redundancy, DNP 3.0 and IEC 68150.
Mon is a proud new father (and secretly a karaoke star).
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Mel McRoberts
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Mel is a Senior Consultant to Strategic with over 30 years of experience in SCADA systems, IT infrastructure, and industrial automation. He has designed and supported complex control systems across sectors ranging from water and electric utilities to manufacturing and security. His expertise spans network architecture, server management, and the integration of both modern and retrofits with legacy systems.
Mel makes the hard problems look easy, though he swears he’s just been doing it long enough to know where to look (and where not to).
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Paolo Buenaseda
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As a Systems Integrator, Paolo seeks to solve complex problems, uphold Strategic’s core values, as well as deliver the best service for each client and their SCADA objectives. His work encompasses the realm of networking, automation with Ignition, and database management with Python. Currently he works with the EATON CL-7 voltage regulator controllers with a focus on keeping detailed and secure documentation of customer field devices.
From IT workbenches to national park benches, Paolo enjoys fishing, cooking, reading, and exploring new places to eat. After work, you can find him lifting heavy weights at the gym to fulfill his lifelong goal of bench pressing a 42U server rack.
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Jacklyn Chung-Young
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Jacklyn prides herself in building relationships, serving customers, coordinating operations, and keeping projects on track.
With over 7 years experience, Jacklyn brings attention to detail coupled with a warm attitude and is driven to make an impact. She brings her expertise, enthusiasm, and vibrant energy as Assistant Project Manager at Strategic Engineering & Automation Systems.
Outside of work, she enjoys curling up with a good book and cooking delicious meals for her loved ones.
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JD Bechthold, CPA
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JD runs accounting and finance at Strategic, where he helps the team and clients make smarter decisions with cleaner books, better systems, and forward-looking reporting. A licensed CPA (and CISSP, for what it's worth), he’s built everything from automated time tracking tools to cash flow models, and once saved an education startup over $100K a year by streamlining their back office.
Outside of spreadsheets, JD enjoys cooking, traveling, and training for triathlons — taking on business problems the way he trains: head-on, methodically, and with a little bit of sweat.