Sam Hale is an Analyst and IoT Implementation Specialist at MachNation. His primary areas of technological expertise are systems integration and testing, performance metrics and optimization and vendor analysis. Sam runs MachNation’s IoT Test Environment for IoT platforms and applications where his analyses have been highly demanded by clients. Prior to joining MachNation, Sam worked with both commercial and nonprofit partners formulating cogent systems architectures, leveraging analytic solutions to inform and execute corporate strategy and implementing middleware solutions to help aid in the migration of data and services from legacy systems to cloud platforms. Sam unites his two passions, data analytics and technology, in producing industry-leading research and analyses for MachNation.