OBJECTIVE:

EXPERIENCE:

3/2009 - Present

Industry: Construction - Residential & Commercial/Office

Owner

Schedule appointments with customers to determine scope of project. Create cost estimate/schedule for project. Implement project procedural order to complete coating application. Write change orders and insure customer satisfaction by walking completed job with customer.

1/2008 - 2/2009

Industry: Energy and Utilities

CAD Administrator

Create underground electrical drawings to test functionality of new AutoCAD Utility Design software. Created AUD technical documentation and training manual. Worked on AutoCAD Untility Design committee to develope standard procedures. Provide AutoCAD support such as plot file errors, critical errors and command issues. Requested quotes for hardware, coordinate delivery and setup date. Travel to location to setup plotters. Set-up and test plot drivers within Image Site. Replace plotter ink and printer heads when needed. Supply meter reads to Xerox for large format printers. Responsible for inventory of existing licenses. Keep inventory of users to forecast required future AutoCAD licenses. Setup AutoCAD and configured machines for new users. Work with programmer and Potelco personnel to debug AUD and learn the electrical design. Create LISP and VBA applications. Studied all AutoCAD 2008’s and 2009’s new functionality.

6/2007 - 2/2008

Industry: Engineering Services

CAD Analyst

Worked with CADWorx, a 3rd party AutoCAD 3d software for piping design. Was part of team to transfer in-house 3d CAD to AutoCAD 2006 platform.

6/2006 - 5/2007

Industry: Engineering Services

Contract Mechanical CAD Drafter

Drafted 2d and 3d mechanical parts using AutoCAD and Solid Edge. Edited and made changes to existing drawings.

3/2003 - 4/2007

Contract CAD Engineer

Used AutoCAD to update and maintain the Verizon Washington/Oregon/Montana state cell site change out from Motorola to Lucent Technologies. Collected information and created maps with location of proposed and existing cell sites. Supplied field personnel with current cell site information.

11/1998 - 2/2003

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Engineering CAD Manager

Formulated scope and objectives for new applications. Lead committee to implement new AutoCAD & GIS solutions & standards. Create automated systems to reduce and shorten designers/drafters design time. Provided technical and drawing support for AutoCAD Designers/Drafters. Meet with group to discuss CAD standards and test new software releases. Assist other programmers with difficult problems or coding. Created documentation to be used with CAD Tools, and ATT_Mapp routines. Setup CAD standards, designed directory structure and drawing methods for drafting CAD drawings. Interviewed and hired new employees. Held weekly CAD progress meetings. Supported office of 100 users with solutions to solving hardware and software problems. Created intranet information access using HTML, Coldfusion and SQL & ArcView Created AutoCAD ATT_Map programming library using AutoCAD MAP API, AutoLISP & Visual Basic.

1/1995 - 11/1998

CAD Manager

Collected existing telephone field data for the design of new fiber optic cable routs and the construction of feasibility reports.  Management duties included projecting deadlines, hiring of employees, assignment of work and employee problem solving. Setup CAD drawing structure and created instructions/documentation for drafting in a systematic approach. Responsible for obtaining NAD83 from city & county governments for drafting existing outside plant. Created land base using PTI, GIS and AutoCAD software. Converted U.S. West exchange information to PTI standards.   Used AutoLISP to write routines to speed up the process of drawing all    outside plant and creating title blocks from land base.

3/1994 - 1/1995

Contract CAD Designer

Responsible for civil engineering CAD drawings for Environmental clean-up project.

11/1991 - 1/1993

Programmer/Analyst

Developed third party GIS drafting/design software using AutoLISP and AutoCAD. Responsible for developing key-mapping software (screen pick) for loading key-map drawings. Created and implemented a pull down and tablet menuing system written in AutoLISP and C. Designed technical documentation and illustrations for users manual.

11/1990 - 11/1991

Industry: Engineering Services

Contract Mechanical CAD Designer

Created mechanical and electrical drawings for a filter manufacturing system which consisted of BOM's, details, assembly and installation designs. Re-engineered an existing filter manufacturing system and drying/ventilation system.

EDUCATION:

9/2011 - 10/2011

Vocational

This course focused on building structures for the airline industry. Using tools in the actual process we drilled, reamed, honed, bored and countersunk holes in aluminum. Pieces were riveted to create actual structures on aircraft. All materials assembled were to be within Boeing specified tolerance.

9/1985

Bachelor's Degree

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Aided Design & Programming.

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