Professional staffing services for candidates and clients across a range of key sectors

More and more businesses must rely on technical innovations to stay competitive, no matter what industry. Whether that innovation is in product development or through agile IT capabilities, or both, companies need access to technical professionals with the right skills and expertise to support their growth.

Sysdyne Corporation has been matching professional technical contractors with progressive companies in Minnesota and across the USA since 1985. As well as being technical recruitment specialists, the four engineers who own Sysdyne are contractors too.

At Sysdyne, we focus on developing an in-depth understanding of our clients’ business and staffing needs, as well as the qualities they look for in candidates. This approach has enabled Sysdyne, for over 25 years, to provide highly qualified engineers, IT professionals and other technical experts to clients in a wide range of industry sectors including IT and engineering, medical, aerospace, defense and manufacturing.

Our clients are many and diverse, and some of them have been with us since the company started. A sample listing of our customers includes Lockheed Martin, Boston Scientific, GAMBRO, Calabrio, General Dynamics, Rivertek, American TeleCare and many more.

Success through Technical Right-Sourcing

Through Technical Right-Sourcing, Sysdyne saves clients time and money. We also minimize the legal and financial risks associated with the typical recruitment process.

So what exactly is Technical Right-Sourcing? It’s a proven solution that delivers high quality candidates, minimizes risk and optimizes the relationship between Sysdyne, our candidates and our clients.

Technical Right-Sourcing is about more than finding a candidate for a specific job. We cut out the time and cost of administration – because Sysdyne candidates are our employees too.

All our candidates are pre-assessed to give you an immediate short-list (which means you don’t need to go through hundreds of resumes). We also handle all HR administration and provide up-to-date analyses of current market compensation rates.

By pre-screening candidates, we minimize the risk of hiring the wrong person and many of the costs that go with it. We even provide a 30, 60 or 90-day Review Period to help clients manage the new hire and ensure a good fit.

Management Team

Robert Schmidt – President

Robert Schmidt is a seasoned staffing executive with over 25 years of senior level sales and operations management experience in IT, software, and engineering service fields.  Mr. Schmidt joined Sysdyne in 1997, and as the company’s president he oversees the company’s sales, marketing, operations and human resources functions.  Previously, Mr. Schmidt was a division manager for System Software Associates, a maker of ERP software, responsible for one of SSA’s $15 million business units.  Prior to SSA, he was the CEO of ELKE Corporation, a maker of maintenance tracking software, before it was acquired by SSA. Other prior positions include management roles at Control Data Corporation’s testing division.
Mr. Schmidt has a BA in Business with a Mathematics Minor from Bethel College in St. Paul, MN, graduating “With Distinction”. He is a Certified Staffing Professional (CSP) through the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management & Staffing Association of Minnesota.

Richard Blumenstein – Chairman of the Board and Founder

Richard Blumenstein is a software engineer with over 25 years experience working as both a staffing executive and technical contractor for various high tech companies across the US. His technical contracting career began in 1983 working as a software engineer for various departments within Honeywell, Inc. In 1985, Mr. Blumenstein co-founded Sysdyne Corporation and was its CEO while still contracting full time for different clients such as Lockheed Martin, Kodak and 3M. In 2000, he was instrumental in founding ExB Solutions, Inc., a company focused on outsourced development projects primarily in real-time embedded engineering. Eventually day-to-day management of Sysdyne was handed over to a full time company president, but Mr. Blumenstein is still involved in supporting Sysdyne’s company vision and strategic planning to expand the company’s new business growth efforts.
Mr. Blumenstein has a BS in Electrical Engineering (w/Computer Option) from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. and he has completed several Engineering Management graduate courses through Drexel.

Ron Gauthier – Board Member and Founder, Principal Engineer

Ron Gauthier has 30 years experience as a systems/software design and test engineer using formal development standards.  Mr. Gauthier has founded two companies in the engineering services industry, including Sysdyne where he is a principal engineer working on various projects for Sysdyne clients as well as project planning and scheduling work for multiple company clients. He has comprehensive experience in all technical phases of software engineering including requirements specification, design, development, implementation, debugging, and testing. Mr. Gauthier has developed real-time embedded software and application software for numerous medical, military and commercial applications. In addition, he has broad experience in project planning, costing, scheduling and interfacing with customers. Some of the clients that Mr. Gauthier has contracted with while at Sysdyne include Boston Scientific, Kodak, Honeywell, and MTS Systems Corp.
Mr. Gauthier has an MS in Computer Science, BS in Computer Science, and a BS in Mathematics, all from the University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology.  He also has completed numerous continuing education courses in software engineering and design.

Robert Clarke – Board Member and Founder, Senior Engineer

Robert Clarke has over 35 years professional experience in the avionics/aerospace, defense, and medical industries.  He has experience in software verification testing, flight controls, real-time simulation of physical systems (aircraft, torpedoes, missiles, with hardware in the loop), automated test systems design and integration including both hardware and software, real-time software design, and systems engineering.  He has programmed on a variety of platforms in numerous languages.
Mr. Clarke has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, graduating “With Distinction”. He has also completed several engineering and development continuing education courses.

Neil Danner – Board Member and Founder, Senior Engineer

Neil Danner has over 30 years experience as a systems/software design and test engineer.  Mr. Danner’s various contract projects for Sysdyne include systems and software integration (V&V) testing on the Differential GPS Ground Station used at many airports, systems level testing of the Yaw Damper Coupler (YDC) for the Boeing 737 aircraft, verification testing of flight software used in the AirBus 310 strap-down Inertial Navigation System, and design of a MIL-STD-1553 input/output bus controller which networked a memory processor to peripheral units aboard a nuclear submarine.
Mr. Danner has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He also has held a Secret Security Clearance since 1985.