SUMMARY
Passionate, talented and skilled CAD and BIM Support Specialist. Providing training, advice, code, and construction technology awareness. Abilities to formulate a plan and creatively coordinate issues as they arise. Expert in ADA Requirements and human awareness in architecture.
SKILLS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Cathy F Benson, AIA, Ridgewood, NJ , BIM Specialist
• Helped raise $2.5 million for Habitat for Humanity’s Hamilton 7 project with a visualization of the proposed development and collaborated with marketing.
• Specified and installed workstation computers capable of handling Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD Architecture.
• Solved issues in installation and licensing by performing clean uninstalls of leftover trial versions down to the computer registry then successfully reinstalling the software to a working state.
• Designed a training curriculum for Cathy in order to move her from Autodesk Architecture to Revit.
• Created a Parametric Revit Template package that controls design parameters with specific title blocks, families and details relevant to the firm's Design and Document Creation Process.
• Provided Marketing materials for website promotion of residential and commercial architecture.
Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ, US, Lab Aide/Industrial Design Technology
• Managed the Drafting and Design Department Technology Laboratories to keep students and computer safe and functioning at optimal levels.
• Troubleshoot printing issues from Autodesk and Adobe Products to save on paper waste.
• Provided virtual modeling of development sites, architectural visualization and correction of student work through Autodesk Revit.
• Improved Relationship management between students and Lab-Aids to give the Lab an office working environment feeling.
• Consistency in problem-solving skills to help students by tutoring homework assignments in Revit, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, Sketchup, Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Created templates of the Ciccone and Lab Theaters for the Performing Arts Department in Vectorworks which gave a starting point for every show and developed cad standards for the design of technical documents and directorial presentations.
One Dream Sound, Fairfield , ASSISTANT DESIGNER
• With the Technical Director, with best practices we designed and raster site plans, architectural drafting’s and other designers’ plans from AutoCAD to Vectorworks.
• Collaborate with operations to create documentation for rental needs to clients for estimation and equipment needs.
• Provided electrical calculations and electrical load balancing for portable electrical environments
• Created lighting plans, sound plots and scenic drawings for events and theatrical productions in Vectorworks.
• Created rendered visualization to provide the selling point of a design to a client.
• Provided electrical calculations and data path spreadsheets.
• Coordinator of logistics of crews of 30 or more subcontractor teams maintaining timeline and budget.
Theatrical Service & Supplies, Hauppauge, NY, LIGHTING DESIGNER
Created Light plots with Vectorworks for permanently installed equipment in schools in the New York area to replace energy-wasting tungsten fixtures with eco-friendly LED’s.
Tested equipment in the shop prior to installation for quality control.
Triple checked part lists to provide the client with a complete and working system at installation and training and made last-minute orders to exchange part mistakes and oversites.
Managed installation crews on site with to keep within allotted time and budget.
Trained clients with newly installed equipment, and in the theory and practical application of theatrical lighting programming and design.
Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ, US, Industrial Design Technology
AutoCAD 1, AutoCAD 2, AutoCAD 3 (3ds Max), Architectural Drafting, Building Information Modeling, Technical Illustration, Architectural Practice and Planning, Mechanical Building Systems, Materials and Method of Construction
CUNY CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, Brooklyn, NY, US, Bachelors, ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY
Introduction to Entertainment Technology, Entertainment Drafting I, Entertainment Drafting II, Scenery Construction, Basic Electricity for Live Entertainment, Technical Production 1, 2, 3,; Lighting Technology, Sound Technology I, Entertainment Control Systems, Culmination Project
