Mr. Cotter has more than 40 years of manufacturing experience in various chemical manufacturing areas. He started as a mechanical engineer then progressed thru maintenance, project engineering and finally into process control. He has worked for a tire company, a large chemical, a small pharmaceutical and now 3M, where he has worked for the last 30 plus years. He has reached the level of Master System Engineering Specialist with the Process Information and Control Solutions group in St. Paul Mn. He has a strong involvement in the security of process control systems in the manufacturing environment.

He has also been active in international organizations to improve manufacturing use of computer systems. He has been the Chair of the Microsoft in Manufacturing Users Group ( MSMUG ) and is currently a co-leader of the ISA99 Working Group 6 team ( Patch Management ). This is the group that is working on the IEC62443-2-3 Technical Report - Patch management in the IACS environment and is part of the ISA99\IEC62443 Industrial Automation and Control System (IACS) Security set of documents.