Vin Calio

Vin has over 15 years of broad-based industry experience in controls and automation projects including Life Sciences, Industrial and Advanced Technology Sectors. His overall responsibility for the project team ensures that the project team is responsive to the client’s project needs and expectations regarding project schedule, quality, and budget requirements.

My story began in 1991 when I went to work for a heavy civil construction company after college.  Despite studying electrical engineering at what was then ULowell (now UMass Lowell), I went to work in the civil engineering field.  Construction work was in the family, and I had done a summer internship for this company during college.  It was a great opportunity that lead to a 15-year career in construction that included 10 years as a project manager on Boston’s Big Dig.  That, to this day, is the most impressive project I have ever worked on.  I also spent several years traveling around the country managing some specialized tunneling projects.

When that project was winding down, I received a call from a longtime friend to come work for him as a project manager at Custom Systems and Controls, Inc., a systems integration and automation company based in Ashland, MA.  I figured that it was about time that I put my electrical engineering background to use so I joined them in 2007.  At CSC, in addition to project management and customer relations, I was involved in all aspects of automation and machine building, including electrical design; PLC, robot, machine vision and many other types of programming; panel building, mechanical assembly and onsite installation and troubleshooting.

In October of 2018, I received a message through LinkedIn from Keith Flaherty about an opening for an automation lead position at Hallam-ICS.  Though not really contemplating a career change, I decided to respond (it was the first time I had ever done that) and soon after had a phone conversation with Keith followed by a few meetings with Jeff Silcox.  What I learned was that the work that Hallam does would in many ways combine the experiences from “both” of my careers.  I also learned that the work environment at Hallam would allow me to work close to home, spend time with my family and continue my involvement as a a board member of the MRPAC Theatre.