Sam Fino
Sales Engineer
Commercial HVAC & VRF
Full-Cycle Technical Sales
Python & FastAPI
LLM & MCP Integration
AWS & Cloudflare
Embedded / ESP32
Solution Design
I own the technical thread on every deal — discovery, solution design, and close — for engineered products in commercial HVAC. Four-plus years of consultative, full-cycle technical sales spent translating what a customer actually needs into equipment that gets specified, installed, and works in the field.
Outside that role I’m a hands-on builder. I designed and shipped a cross-platform SaaS — web plus native Android, REST APIs, cloud-backed sync, and custom ESP32 hardware of my own design — and turned it into a small business with a paying customer base of over 50 users, self-sourcing every one of them.
I use AI daily in how I build: agentic coding tools, MCP integrations, self-hosted models, and LLM APIs wired directly into production software. That is how proposal and submittal work that used to take an hour now takes five minutes. The approach is the same on either side of the desk: understand the problem fully, then solve it precisely.
Experience
H.C. Nye Company, Inc. Current
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania · VRF Product Specialist, promoted from Inside Sales Engineer
- Primary technical point of contact for an established portfolio of contractor, engineering, and building owner accounts — running discovery, solution design, and close on every opportunity in the territory
- Cut proposal and submittal turnaround for Fujitsu products from 30–60 minutes to 5 by building an internal automation platform in Python and FastAPI that unifies catalog data, document parsing, and browser automation
- Cut takeoff and unit-counting time by over an hour on large, complex jobs with an MCP-integrated tool that uses AI to scan PDF equipment schedules and cross-reference unit tags against floor plans
- Work through technical objections and unusual project requirements to keep deals moving toward close, and help customers evaluate and select the right equipment for their application
- Share product knowledge and written reference material with the sales team, and coordinate directly with manufacturers on technical issues and field performance
Technical SalesVRF SystemsSolution DesignPythonFastAPIMCPWorkflow Automation
Delta Tuning Current
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Software & Technical Services
- Turned a solo software project into a small business serving a paying customer base of over 50 users, self-sourcing every customer and owning the full cycle: discovery, solution design, demonstration, pricing, delivery, and support
- Designed and built a cross-platform SaaS — web plus native Android — on REST APIs with cloud-backed storage, synchronized access across devices, and an extensible architecture supporting multiple data sources and user-defined configurations
- Designed and deployed custom connected hardware: a self-designed PCB with an ESP32 microcontroller reading a live sensor signal and streaming data over IoT
- Built a native Android logging app that reads real-time ECU data during vehicle operation and syncs it to cloud storage, giving customers access to their own logs through the website from any device
- Deploy and operate the full stack on AWS and Cloudflare Workers
SaaSREST APIsNative AndroidAWSCloudflare WorkersESP32KiCad
UKM Transit Products
Harleysville, Pennsylvania
- Designed and modeled highly engineered parts for major domestic and foreign passenger rail car agencies
- Completed engineering change orders and maintained revision control in PDM software, applying GD&T per ASME Y14.5 and ISO 9000 standards
- Created complex drawing packages and bills of materials to support manufacturing
- Communicated with manufacturers to increase workflow efficiency using design for manufacturing concepts
SOLIDWORKSGD&T / ASME Y14.5PDMISO 9000Product Design
ATS Rocky Mountain
Denver, Colorado
- Commissioned a building automation control system for a 3-story commercial building, programming controllers and validating performance against field test data
- Coordinated with contractors on-site to troubleshoot electrical and mechanical problems on control valves, fans, and air handlers
BAS ControlsCommissioningElectrical TroubleshootingData Analysis
Skills
AI & Development
Agentic coding (Claude Code, Codex)
MCP integration
LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI)
Self-hosted models (Ollama)
Python, FastAPI, PyQt6
Native Android
Integration & Cloud
REST API integration
Cloud-backed storage & sync
AWS (S3, Lambda)
Cloudflare Workers
Workflow & document automation
Browser automation
Hardware & Electronics
ESP32 & STM32 embedded
KiCad PCB design
Real-time sensor acquisition
IoT data streaming
SOLIDWORKS & GD&T
Sales & Enablement
Consultative technical discovery
Solution design
Full-cycle deal ownership
Objection handling
Technical presentations & training
Written enablement material
Education
Bachelor of Science,
Mechanical Engineering
Messiah University
Graduated 2021 · Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Licenses & Certifications
Hitachi VRF Installation
Johnson Controls
2025
Google AI Fundamentals
Google
On record
Sales Representative Training
AAON
On record
OSHA 10-Hour Certification
360training
On record