Casimir Sienkiewicz

Springfield, Massachusetts, gave American industry its first lathe, musket, motorcycle, and kitchen match. It also produced Cazimir Sienkiewicz. After earning a degree from Springfield Technical College, Caz moved to Minnesota to work for Kurt Manufacturing. There he worked his way up to become program manager for subcontract manufacturing for Boeing. He went on to become director of engineering at Filtration Products Corp.

Caz’s portfolio of projects include the rocket motor valve used on the XCOR Lynx suborbital space vehicle, a pulse jet engine, and the world’s most powerful tee-shirt cannon (which he demonstrated on several national television programs.)

Anxious to get out on his own, Caz began consulting on engineering projects for XCOR Aerospace, a private developer of rocket engines in Mojave, California. As his workload and client base grew, he founded Caztek in his garage back in 2004. It wasn’t long before Caz moved his fledgling company into a larger space (equipped with its own CNC machine!) in the funky Lowertown district of St. Paul, Minnesota. Since its founding, Caztek has matured into a proven engineering and design firm, and the company’s clients have expanded to include producers of aerospace, medical, industrial and consumer products.