Michael Toulouse

Served as a Distinguished Member of the Extreme Scale Infrastructure Business Unit, leading the Modular Data Center (MDC) controls engineering team, focusing on revenue generation through prefabricated data center infrastructure. * Conceptualized documentation, standards, and automated processes for control code development and deployment of external-facing informational resources, and implemented remote logging and commissioning HMIs for onsite vendors * Modernized and automated the team's thermal modeling and psychrometric analysis capabilities by leveraging Python-based data science tools and facility CFD modeling, streamlining workflows, and enhancing analysis precision * Advocated the adoption of collaborative tools and workflows within industrial automation spaces including Git version control, pull requests, and scrum-style development methodologies, optimizing team efficiency and productivity * Contributed significantly to innovation with five patents generated in software-based thermal control methods aimed at enhancing reliability and energy efficiency in modular infrastructure

Led a team of junior control engineers, overseeing task coordination, project prioritization, and individual project design and implementation duties, and established standards and processes for modular data center (MDC) environmental control software. * Developed and documented standards and processes for MDC environmental control software, increasing system resiliency, reducing development time, and lowering total cost of ownership through serviceability improvements * Created custom Modbus TCP and RTU drivers to enhance system robustness and reliability in response to device failure, minimizing downtime and improving overall system performance * Developed tools for thermal modeling and analysis of data center performance, including weather and solar modeling for outdoor modules, enabling better understanding and optimization of environmental control systems

Led controls design and implementation initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, and owned, planned, and executed roadmaps for future control system development, driving innovation and improvements in data center infrastructure. * Designed and implemented major feature updates to PLC control code, incorporating innovative developer tools to enhance functionality and performance * Developed control schemes for newer customer designs, such as direct expansion cooling and multiple coordinated embedded machine controllers, ensuring optimal performance and reliability * Enhanced prefabrication and offsite manufacturing commissioning and controls expertise, increasing the rigor, standardization, and automation of module performance testing and analysis * Enhanced factory startup testing, deployment, and commissioning processes for MDCs, leading to accelerated timelines and improved operational efficiency * Conducted bench testing of prospective sensors and devices to evaluate performance and validate specifications, ensuring optimal functionality in MDC environments

Developed, validated, and improved reduced-order numerical simulations of air flow and heat transport for application in data center thermal modeling Created software for ease of use and instructed other students in its use and application for associated research projects

Maintained, improved, instrumented, modified Pebble Recirculation Experiment (PREX), a scaled model of the Pebble Bed - Advanced High Temperature Reactor (PB-AHTR)

Assisted in vibration/impact testing of components for use in space systems