Our Company

Dr Martin Weinstein is the former CEO of Sequa Corporation, a Fortune 1000 company, a $2 billion business. He was a founding shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corporation and founding shareholder of Tyco Corporation. He has invented a significant number of patented products for the jet engine sector and received the 2010 Davies Medal for Engineering Achievement for his work on metallurgy. Dr Weinstein has founded Sheffield Scientific as it operates in an area that has always interested him and he brings both solid financial backing and years of corporate experience to the boardroom of the company.

“My objective is to develop a conglomerate for supporting asset management solutions and operations/maintenance standards for utilities worldwide. We did it for the commercial and military aviation sectors and I know we can bring the same world class support to the utility sector, We are developing a team of true professionals and we will continue to grow by recruiting the right people. Our aim is to partner with our clients and deliver success in the key areas of safety, quality and performance through continuous improvement and striving towards operational excellence. I will build a company that has longevity without restrictive short term objectives. Sheffield Scientific is and will always be a family and a company built on the solid foundation of the best professionals.”

Joshua A Weinstein, CPA, attended the University of Southern California where he received a BS in Accounting and a BS in Finance in 1993. He became a Licensed Certified Public Accountant in 2000. Founder and business owner, Joshua currently serves as chief financial officer of Sheffield Scientific, LLC, and its subsidiaries, whose company headquarters is in Houston, Texas. Joshua’s diversified career includes employment in positions of senior finance, accounting, taxes and consulting at Structure Consulting Group LLC, Goodman Manufacturing, Enron, Coca Cola and Arthur Andersen Consulting. His financial project experience includes professional service operations, cost modelling, operational consulting, financial planning, accounting and reporting, damage calculations, mutual fund reconciliation and environmental auditing.

Since its inception Sheffield Scientific has worked with many of the major utilities in the USA and Canada. We are not restricted to electricity generation and are currently supporting key players in the petrochemical industry in the USA.

We are currently acting as the independent integration partner for a major software upgrade in the United Kingdom. We are also supporting implementation of new EAM software in China. Cyber security is another major growth area and we are supporting Utilities and US Government agencies in this key area of new legislation in the USA.

Kevin Carter

Co-Chairman, President and COO

“At Sheffield we hire the utility industry’s most talented service providers, remove all the bureaucratic barriers that often prohibit employees from always ‘doing the right thing’ and empower our team members to ‘exceed customer expectations’.

Our formula for success is fairly straightforward; we focus on taking care of our employees, allowing them to provide unencumbered exemplary service to our customers. When your employees and customers are happy, your business flourishes. Employing this philosophy we’ve been able to experience unprecedented growth since the company’s inception.”

Kevin Carter has extensive operational and start-up experience and an excellent background in organizational development, resource allocation, and business process improvement. He has implemented Enterprise Asset Management solutions to global audiences with 30+ years of service in the electric utilities industry.

At Stone and Webster Engineering he provided IT consulting services to nuclear power companies, he joined the founding team of Indus International in 1990, where latterly he was VP of International Operations.

In 2005, Kevin was a founding member of DevonWay, a utilities EAM application services provider where the first software as a service (SaaS) solution was delivered to the Nuclear Power Industry.

David Ritter

Vice President of Operations

What sets Sheffield apart from its competitors is the quality of our people; it is the experience and resourcefulness of our employees that allows us to meet and exceed our customers’ expectations on every project. This combined set of skills, capabilities, and experience brought by our team to each client and every project distinguishes Sheffield in the utility and EAM global energy sector.”

David has over 23 years of experience in automated plant maintenance, work management, fugitive emissions/nuclear monitoring/repair systems and overall project management. Sheffield Scientific constantly endeavors to be the partner that is easy to do business with, to provide a better end-user experience; and to be ‘Independent not Indifferent’ which, in turn, allows us to do what is best for our client partners. It is all about building long term relationships with both our clients and our staff.

Angela May

Vice President/ Controller

“I am a big believer in Sheffield’s philosophy of keeping our employees and clients happy. We accomplish this by providing accurate, timely and relevant information. In turn, employees and clients are able to be more efficient, effective and successful.”

Angela May brings to the team a strong accounting background and has worked in the energy consulting and software industry for over 10 years. She began her career with Ernst & Young, LLP and then worked for The Structure Group as a project accountant before joining Sheffield Scientific in 2010. Angela works in the Houston corporate office and oversees the accounting, payroll and HR administration activities for the company. Angela is a CPA and earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree from Texas A&M University.

Dan Rueckert

VP of Business Strategy

“The utility landscape within the electric, water and natural gas sectors are exciting times as informational and operational technologies continue to converge creating opportunities for integrated asset management. Sheffield Scientific has some the largest concentration of skilled asset management professionals that are and will continue to contribute to solutions supporting fossil, nuclear and renewables generation and the maturity of Smart Grid adoption in transmission and distribution. Our understanding of the asset lifecycle from a “real life” perspective allows us to provide continuous business value to our customers.”

Dan brings 30+ years of experience in asset management, security, software development & implementation and business operations consulting in contributing to the expansion of new service offerings, technology partnerships and go-to-market strategies for Sheffield Scientific.

His previous roles as Associate Vice President at Black & Veatch for Security, Risk & Compliance, Global Practice Director at Hewlett-Packard for Service Management and Security & Risk Services, Partner –CSC (Utilities), Regional Vice President at INDUS International and Director at Pacific Gas & Electric bring a customer focused attitude from both a user and partner perspective. Dan is a registered Mechanical Engineer and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Dan Brault

Senior Account Executive

“Our clients have come to know and expect that Sheffield resources provide quality deliverables in a timely fashion. Sheffield’s talented business and technical resource pool is used to bolster all of our client projects. We work hard to provide our clients with the most appropriate, available resources, given the required skillset. If we have no resources that match the client requirements, we enlist the help of our employees and outsides services to assist us in finding them. Given this, we strive to be a consulting services leader in the Enterprise Asset Management space!”

Dan has more than 35 years of experience in software application development and implementation services for electric/gas/water/wastewater utilities, facility & fleet management, manufacturing, insurance, telecommunication and military industries. His early years in the workforce were devoted to application development and data base administration. Since then Dan worked his way up through the ranks and for the past 18 years, his primary focus has been managing supply chain and asset management projects in the utility and military spaces. Just prior to joining Sheffield, Dan was responsible for overseeing several municipal and investor-owned/public electric utility asset management, mobile and customer information projects within Oracle’s Utility Global Business Unit.

Dan’s has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rutgers University. He has a level 5 (out of 6) project manager certification from Oracle’s project manager training program (PMI’s PMP Certification was equivalent to level 2). He has managed several projects over the years, in various verticals, with an excellent success ratio.