19 Search Results for rafter

B. Barkman is an independent CAD/BIM Application Specialist. Since the beginning of his career, he has invested time in the manufacturing, construction, and architectural industries as a drafter, designer, programmer, customizer, and all-around help desk guru. He has worked as an instructor for a technical college, an interior design college, and presently teaches an online class for Revit Architecture and has been training people to use AutoCAD since 2003. Since 2006, Barkman has been helping companies implement Revit and become familiar with BIM methodologies. Throughout his career, he has always served as the answer-man for many software and hardware tools.

T. Dang is a CAD Specialist/Technician/Operator/Coordinator. He received his Associates in Science degree in Engineering, with specialties in the design and drafting field. He worked for almost 9 years as an Electrical/Mechanical/Structural Drafter. He had worked as a Printed Circuit Board Designer for 3 years, during which time he designed circuit boards for power supply), and also developed designs for cables and harnesses.

K. Land is currently a design drafter. He has 12 years of experience using various Autodesk, Bentley, and Adobe software like Architecture 2010, Plant 3D, Microstation V8i, Photoshop, and Illustrator. He started his work at an Architectural/Engineering company, and created CAD block and layer standards that are still in use today.

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.

E. Gard is a designer/drafter who specializes in HVAC and plumbing systems design. He has extensive knowledge of building types and applications, including mixed use buildings, military and government contracts, medical office buildings, low income housing, restaurants, apartments, hotels and high end residential homes.

S. Powell is an independent CAD drafter specializing in mechanical component and assembly drawings. He has experience in red line drawings as well as document changes. His most recent work experience involved creating drawings from samples, sketches, and verbal/written descriptions. He has worked extensively with artists/designers to create drawings for use in architectural and retail display.

M. Keolyan is an independent CAD drafter and designer. His extensive expertise in putting together design, shop and permit drawing sets for dawnings, trellises and canopies. Also, has extensive expertise in CD sets for residential homes. Anything from new construction to home additions. He received a BA in Architecture from Woodbury University.

J. Potenza serves as a CADD consultant for construction projects in Massachusetts. He began as a civil drafter for the City of Boston in 1978 while attending Boston Architectural Center, and learned the Auto-trol system in 1982. He became a CADD Manager in 1985. It was at this time that he became proficient in AutoCAD, Intergraph and GDS and began creating CADD Drafting standards. Mr. Potenza headed up the CADD design for a Wastewater Treatment Plant on GDS.

Building on his GDS experience, he created and implement the CADD standards for the Boston Central Artery Project. In 2010, Mr. Potenza began teaching CADD/Engineering. Because of his extensive design/build experience, he was recently asked to design and manage the construction of a new 104,000 sq. ft. educational campus in Woburn, MA.

Interview with Mr. J. Potenza

1. What kinds of clients do you serve? What is your particular area of expertise?

   I have worked primarily with A/E firms for over 30 years. Architectural design, Civil and Utility relocation.

2. What was the most interesting CAD project that you ever worked on? What made it interesting? What challenges did you face?

   The Central Artery/3rd Harbor Tunnel. The massive coordination of companies and disciplines. The constant changes and revisions.

3. Of the software tools that you use, which is your favorite and why?

   My favorite was Auto-trol but I dont think it exists any more. Autocad now. I was in cad before Autocad existed.

4. What trends are you observing in the market for CAD services? How have these trends affected you, and how are you responding to them?

   I think companies would rather hire a service now. It hasnt really affected me.

5. What do you like about working as an interim CAD draftsman or external CAD consultant working on a time-bound project?

   I like the constant project change and the challenge of completing a job on time.

6. Have you ever provided CAD consulting services remotely, either via phone, the Web or email?
   Do you use any screen sharing tools (like Webex, Skype, or GoToMeeting), and are they effective?
   What kinds of questions and problems could you tackle remotely?
   Are there any issues that you feel are better handled face-to-face?

   Yes, on many joint ventures. I have used GoToMeeting and found it somewhat effective. Preliminary design and most changes can be handled remotely. Face-to-face meetings are best for initial project start up and major changes.

O. Medina is an independent consultant with experience in Computer Aid Drafting software, mainly Chief Architect and AutoCad. For the past seven years he has been developing residential Architectural Drawings, HVAC and electrical drawings for residential and commercial projects. As an Architectural residential drafter he had been involved in the complete design process of projects, including schemes proposals through final construction documents. He has generated drawings for floor plans, elevations, sections, structural, electrical, plumbing, site plans and detailed sections. Also he had developed 3D walkthrough video clips for some of the projects. Oscar is currently studying electrical engineering on-line at Stony Brook University in New York. He is a graduated engineer in electronics from Saint Thomas University in Bogota Colombia.