Blackmon

Ted Blackmon joined PTAG in 2025 as a Board Member and senior advisor through the acquisition of his consulting services firm Construct-X. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Ted began his career at NASA in the 1990’s working in the Artificial Intelligence group, where he developed software to drive the first rover on Mars using a Virtual Reality planning and execution system.  Ted participated as a Mission Control specialist on Mars Pathfinder and later commercialized this technology for use in the construction and operations of industrial facilities. Ted has dedicated his professional career in pursuit of connecting the dots between safety, productivity, sustainability and the capital projects industry using Digital Twins. He is the founder of Common Point, Construct-X, O3, Work Packs, AWP-U, Optimality and most recently Inspire Robotics.

He has received the Penn State Alumni Achievement Award, the FIATECH Outstanding Career Research Award from the Construction Industry Institute, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Advanced Work Packaging from the Advanced Project Delivery Association, and the James B. Porter, Jr. Award for Technology Leadership from the Construction Industry Institute.

He is married to Rani and they have one daughter Jenny.