CONTINENTAL CONTROLS CORPORATION - Key Persons
David brings with him years of pragmatic experience working on both gas turbines and gas engines. He has written most of the embedded code in CCC products, and he continues to be the foremost expert on the operation of the products. David has over 30 years experience in natural gas engine applications. He joined CCC after an early career working with Tektronix in Oregon.
George Mansfield was "rehired" as engineering design consultant.
John is Vice President of Engineering and has been with CCC for more than 20 years. John was a top Mechanical Engineering student at San Diego State University and joined Continental Controls shortly after his graduation. John is instrumental in the management and design of all of CCC's products.
Keith has over 25 years of international business experience, and joined us in 2020. He started his career as an engineer and continues to enjoy promoting complex technical sales in a global environment. He is responsible for the rapid growth of Continental Controls products and services globally. Keith combines unsurpassed customer account management with aggressive new customer development to achieve market growth.
Rick is Vice President and he generally manages strategic relationships, contracts, financials, etc. He has been with CCC since 1998, after a long and successful career with the Sony Corporation in Sales, Marketing and General Management.
Ross Fisher and George Mansfield are responsible for the development of the earliest electronic fuel control valves for CCC. In about 1969, CCC had taken on a new project to redesign "Black Boxes" for Solar Gas Turbines to improve reliability in the boxes. Ross' long time friend and brilliant electronic engineer, Bill Pickett, was also instrumental in the design of the Black Boxes. Also about this time, George Mansfield began working on a liquid fuel metering valve that was actuated by a primitive solenoid with very crude approximations in its magnetic design. The black box array, along with the solenoid actuated valve, comprised the first step taken by these two gas turbine control pioneers.
Several additions were made to the CCC staff. First hiring son David Fisher, who had pragmatic experience in embedded systems from designing for Tektronix in Oregon. David moved south to San Diego to join the team.
George had become a professor at SDSU in Mechanical Engineering and he would help steer some of his best students to CCC. Upon graduation, Kris Yates (one of George's top students), came on board and with Ross, George and Dave, designed CCC's first computer-controlled fuel control gas valve with built-in flow measurement, the AGV-10. It featured a voice coil/flapper valve pilot controlling pressure on a large diaphragm-operated poppet valve. Kris became CCC's Chief M.E. until retirement in 2019.