J. Rodgers has been in the field of CAD since 1984, when she attended one of the first schools in the country to offer CAD as a major. She started her career as a designer/drafter for an inventor of a unique internal combustion engine. Ms. Rodgers then joined an architectural firm and began her long career in architectural CAD. She learned architecture on the job for a firm who was a front runner in using CAD in the mid to late 1980s. She learned how to put together symbol libraries and complete complex construction documents with different CAD systems, including structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing cad. . From 1989 to 2011 Ms. Rodgers worked for an engineering and architectural firm, where she worked on hundreds of projects including commercial, residential and the majority being for the federal government. She became very familiar with different standards for each federal agency and helped implement them. She has had training and experience in REVIT and Microstation.
