Jeremy Van Dusen
Jeremy Van Dusen

Jeremy Van Dusen

Reliability & CMMS Management · Operations & Maintenance Leadership · Industrial AI

Combat engineer. 20-year business owner. Plant reliability leader. AI builder. I know the plant floor — and I build the systems that run it.

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U.S. Army Veteran · Winder, GA (Atlanta / Athens area) · Open to remote, hybrid, or on-site

About

I figure out how things actually work — then make them work better.

I started as a combat engineer in the U.S. Army, leading a squad of up to 20 soldiers. Then I spent more than 20 years owning and running my own fabrication shop: full P&L, a team that peaked at 32, every decision mine to make. Owning a company teaches you operations from the ground up. If a process is broken, it’s your problem to fix.

Today I lead reliability and the CMMS at a 24/7 commercial-scale manufacturing plant — maintenance through a supervisor and a crew of 12 technicians, daily cross-department coordination, shutdown and outage planning, and the plant’s asset data and critical-spares program.

Side note — for over two years I’ve been building AI systems, including industrial IoT and data architecture. I’d rather build the tool than wait for someone to sell me one.

What I do

Four things I’m good at

  • Maintenance & Reliability Leadership

    Lead maintenance through supervisors, set priorities and workload, and build the reliability strategy that keeps a continuous plant running.

  • Shutdowns & Outages

    Plan major outages end to end: timing, impacts, support, and day-of execution. Every department knows what’s coming before it happens.

  • CMMS & Asset Data

    Asset hierarchies, naming standards, PM schedules, parts and critical spares, work-order history. The data a maintenance program actually runs on.

  • Industrial AI & Systems

    Build practical AI and data tools for operations, with human checks on every decision that matters.

Proof

By the numbers

  • 3.5+ yearsrunning the maintenance side of a daily company-wide meeting, unbroken
  • 12technicians led through the Maintenance Supervisor
  • 485assets moved to a new naming standard in a plant-wide CMMS migration
  • 1,441work orders (6+ years of history) migrated, plus 113 PM schedules and 916 equipment documents
  • 672-partcritical-spares register, 82 critical parts
  • 83 panelswalked and traced for a plant-wide switchgear outage
  • 49technicians covered by the skills and safety-qualification assessment I built
  • 20+ yearsowning a business: full P&L, ~$1.2M peak annual revenue, up to 32 people

AI & Systems

I build the tools, not just the requirements

  • 2+ years building AI systems, including self-hosted setups and multi-project AI agent workspaces with file-based memory, audit logs and verify-before-use rules.
  • Industrial IoT and data architecture (AI-assisted): SCADA historian integration, ERPNext, PostgreSQL / TimescaleDB, n8n, MQTT.
  • Building a VA-claims assistance agent (in development).

My rule for AI at work: let it do the heavy sorting and drafting, and keep a human checking every decision that matters.

Experience

Where I’ve done the work

  1. Reliability & CMMS Lead

    RWDC Industries · Athens, GA
    May 2026 – Present · Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Technician, Apr 2023 – May 2026

    Commercial-scale bioplastics plant.

  2. Owner / Operator

    Supreme Hot Rods, LLC · Athens, GA
    Dec 2002 – Mar 2025

    Custom fabrication & restoration.

  3. Combat Engineer (12C), Squad Leader

    U.S. Army · Fort Polk, LA
    May 1999 – Apr 2002

Education — Lanier Technical College

  • AAS, Business Management (HR Management concentration), 2010
  • AAS, Technical Studies (Applied Technical Management), 2009
  • Diploma, Welding & Joining Technology, 2008

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Looking for someone who’s actually done the work — and can lead the people doing it?