The founder
Bill
Mercer
Founder and chief architect of xGRIDx. A decade of hybrid command, asset intelligence and compliance automation in the heaviest industries in the world, rebuilt as one system.
The record
Founder and CEO of Hybrid Engineering Corporation, a Texas corporation formed in November 2016. Asset management, tracking and analytics for transportation, petrochemical, and oil and gas. SI driven oversight of EPA regulatory compliance for hazardous materials and compound hydrocarbons.
Colorado School of Mines: Petroleum Engineering, with International Politics, Economics and Resources. Regarded in the industry as a pioneer in the rail car and petrochemical world. Hands-on field background across chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and computer science.
The command systems
Architect of the Hybrid Command Environment and the Visual System Operations Console: geospatial command displays unifying video, access control, fire alarms, SCADA, GPS and RFID asset tracking, mass notification and sensor integration. Central, local site and mobile command tiers.
UQCTA's hybrid command authority starts here. So does LIIVE COMMAND. He has been building this for a decade. xGRIDx is the culmination.
The field work
Built a safe, cost effective process for the industrial cleaning of mobile and stationary holding vessels, rail cars and tanks, with real time monitoring of regulatory compliance. Special experience in UAV surveillance and drilling engineering.
Scale
His architectures redesigned how fire and security systems communicate with control centers across those campuses. He was hired to design the integration control system architecture for a $3 billion rig restoration program for one of the largest rig manufacturers in the United States. Deployments through his staff and teaming partners inside Exxon Mobil, BP Amoco, Shell and Chevron. Vendor capacity for small or large volume projects across all 50 states.
The rooms he has worked in
Described by tier. That is the point.
Harvard and Department of Defense backgrounds.
West Point graduates with Harvard MBAs.
Former senior executives from AT&T and IBM.
An MIT PhD in physics, technology advisor at the highest levels.
A registered professional engineer who project managed the largest directional drilling pipeline project in U.S. history.
Air Force officers from the Space and Missile Systems Center. Advisors to Congressional committees on critical infrastructure.
Now
One operator. One system. Many companies.
We build Super Intelligence systems.
The front end for all of it: digital twins of the assets the world runs on.
A 107 module business platform he designed and built. The twin platform lives here.
Founder. Rooftop compute: every building is a data center.
SISOC watches. BILLM thinks. Ignite builds companies.
Designer. A complete autonomous drone systems package: aircraft, NEST stations, COMMAND, OS.
Custody verification, and the settlement network that closes the loop.
Pre-construction truth, and infrastructure operations.
The architecture and trust layer underneath, under UQCTA's claims discipline.
The night shift
He works nights on the floor at Prime 131, a Houston steakhouse. The man waiting tables is the man who built all of this.
Start / One door
Bring us an asset.
A plant, a terminal, a building, a venue. If it exists in the world, it belongs in the system. Tell us what you operate and we will show you the twin.
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