Brandon D. Steele

Brandon began programming in C/C++ and Visual Basic while pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University. His emphasis was on control design, and projects included an autonomous fork lift and autonomous flight vehicles.

After completing his bachelor’s degree, he went to work for BF Goodrich Aerospace, and also continued to work toward a master’s degree from BYU. At BF Goodrich, Brandon designed and used a thermocouple data acquisition system to monitor the circumferential temperature profiles in CVD furnaces. He also designed additional instrumentation systems to measure temperature, mass flow, and gas composition of CVD processes. This is where Brandon was first exposed to National Instruments products, including FieldPoint and Lookout.

Once he earned his Masters degree, Brandon took a job with National Instruments. After a year as an application engineer, he joined the LabVIEW R&D team as the Product Support Engineer, which is the primary interface between the development team and the applications engineers. During his time as the LabVIEW Product Support Engineer he helped revise the LabVIEW intermediate and advanced courses. Brandon's last position at NI was as an in-house LabVIEW developer working on several add-on products related to control design and simulation, including the Simulation Interface Toolkit for which he was the lead developer.

Since joining Moore Good Ideas in May of 2006, Brandon has enjoyed the variety of the projects he is working on, while still having the opportunity to use his background in control design and simulation.