FDSI has merged the rigors of the lab with the practicality of the real world to produce commercially viable offerings. FDSI is fiscally sound, has no debt, while continuing to invest in new products and services. Its employees have distinctive visibility and industry insights because they are actively involved in the HVAC&R industry and its related organizations.

Staff

Martin Nankin - CEO

• Masters Degree in Organizational Management, Antioch University.
• MBA, Marketing Management, New York University.
• B.Sc., Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
• Twenty-five years of executive management and consulting experience.
• Expertise in organization and business development, administration, marketing and strategic planning.

Todd Rossi, Ph.D. - President

• Co-Founder of FDSI.
• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Herrick Laboratories, Purdue University.
• Graduate degrees in Applied Physics from Caltech and Electrical Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo.
• Thesis and publications on modeling and fault detection and diagnostics of vapor compression cycles.
• Ten years of post doctoral experience interacting with air conditioning contractors and manufacturers regarding system modeling, and fault detection and diagnostic product design.
• Chairman of the New Technology Development Subcommittee for the ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers) Technical Committee 7.5 (Smart Building Systems).

Michael Bloom - Chief Operating Officer

• MBA, Finance, New York University.
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Cornell University.
• Twenty-five years of sales, business development, operations and experience.
• Expertise in sales and marketing, financial management and strategic planning.

Keith Temple, Ph.D. - Senior Project Management Engineer

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Herrick Laboratories, Purdue University. Thermal Sciences: Advanced study in thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid flow, numerical methods, and acoustics.Thesis: Thermal and Internal Acoustic Model of a Pulse Combustion Furnace.Advisors: Victor W. Goldschmidt, Ph.D. and James D. Jones, Ph.D.
• Responsible for managing research and product development related to fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) tools and controls for HVAC equipment and systems. Responsibilities include project management, technical oversight, and technical contribution.
• Professional Engineer: Maryland (October 1990), Pennsylvania (May 1991), New York (May 1992, in-active), Indiana (October 1993).

Richard Veith, Ph.D. - Senior Software Developer

• Ph.D., Information Science and Technology, Syracuse University.
• Previously vice president of Computers At Work, Ltd., a firm specializing in software development for handheld computers, primarily in the utility industry.
• Over twenty-five years in various project management and software development positions in both large and small organizations, including five years as an independent consultant developing and supporting systems incorporating PDAs used by field workers.
• Author of four books and dozens of articles or papers on information technology topics.

Tim Stockman - Design Engineer

• Nearly thirty years of electronics design engineering and manufacturing experience - analog, as well as digital.
• Embedded software and electronics expertise.

Bruce Butler - Business Development

• B.S., Economics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
• Fifteen years in Business Development and Direct Sales for a variety of products and systems.

Harkirat Singh – Project Engineer

• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, Texas.
• B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Gulbarga University, India.
• Areas of strength incldue Coldfusion programming, Web Design, SQL, Database Programming and Maintenance, JAVA Programming, A/C fault diagnostics.
• Thesis and publication on development of an intelligent search algorithm for fault monitoring and diagnostics of sensors in control systems.
• JAVA, C/C++, Coldfusion, SQL, Web Design, PROLOG, Solidworks, AutoCAD, HTML, DHTML, CSS, Excel VBA, Visio.

Pallav Negi - Project Engineer

• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
• Thesis and publications on Artificial Immune Systems applied to control problems including urban traffic.
• Graduate and undergraduate focus on artificial intelligence techniques.
• Software development on platforms including C# for PocketPCs, PalmOS, C/C++, assembly, etc.

Ken Sensi - Materials Manager

• B.A. - Trenton State College
• Over six years experience in managing and creating standard operating procedures for Materials Depratment. Expertise includes use of inventory software programs, procurement practices and negotiations, and working with engineers to create SOP's for the assembly of our products.

Joe Schneider - Operations Manager/VSP Services

• B.S. in Computer Science, Widener University, Pennsylvania.
• Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserves, Signal Corps (25A).
• Military training focused in ethics, voice/data communication management, Army values and doctrine.
• Areas of experience include web design, HTML, PHP, C/C++ Programming, data mining, database management, SQL.

Keefe Lehman - Sales

• Over ten years experience in computer and electronic sales management.
• Experience in electronic assembly and operation