Francisco X. Plaza

Francisco X. Plaza is a consultant at Isle Utilities, specializing in the adoption and development of new technologies for global water utilities since September 2023. Previously, Plaza served as a Jr Program Specialist and Program Associate at ASME, focusing on digital development projects and managing programs for global development, including the Amazon CoLab acceleration program. Experience as an E4C 2021 Fellow at Engineering for Change involved designing a low-cost solar fridge in collaboration with Amped Innovation. Additional roles include Associate Consultant at Deft Consulting, where responsibilities included automating PDF data comparison and providing application support, as well as research positions at Herrick Laboratories and the High-Speed Research Laboratory, concentrating on compressor performance studies. Plaza holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Universidad San Francisco de Quito and Purdue University College of Engineering.