World class broad understanding of building & city information model management implementations across people, process, technology, & governance. Deep mastery of many means & methods related to CAD, EDMS, CAFM, BIM, GIS, CMMS, IWMS, & AIM across all phases of building life-cycle, dozen building types, & dozen engineering disciplines. Have managed AECO projects & professional teams for numerous private sector firms, largest USA government corporation, & publicly traded Fortune500 company. Co-authored highly influential industry leading CAD & BIM standards. Lead development of CAD rules checker software in Autodesk AutoCad & BIM rules checker in both Solibri & Revit. Founded two small businesses & facilitated exits. In addition to titles below have held roles of: BIM Manager, BIM Trainer, BIM Modeler, BIM Coordinator; IT Manager, Agile Product Owner, & Software Developer. Prolific research & experimentation related to: reality capture, dynamic mapping, scan to bim, & existing conditions documentation. Delivered course-ware & training on several Autodesk AEC Collection software applications including Navisworks. Spoken at numerous regional & few national industry events most recently BIMforum. Previous member of more than one buildingSMART committees, US National BIM Standards author team, & Autodesk Developer Network. Experienced with advanced features, configuring, & deploying desktop & cloud solutions from: Autodesk, Adobe, Microsoft, Google, & Amazon.
HarmanGroup.com, King Of Prussia, PA , BIM Consultant
Combined Lean, Agile, & ITIL methods to modernize BIM implementation at industry leading structural engineering firm. Worked for CEO, as independent SME, with Management Team, & interacted with almost every single staff member over course of full year. Deployed new online knowledgebase using Pmwiki.org, upgraded all workstations to Microsoft Windows10, implemented Microsoft Teams before COVID19, & clearly defined 21 BIM improvement projects for future implementation. Managed programmers in several US states.
Array-Advisors.com, Conshohocken PA, BIM Director
Research & experimentation of integrated aspects of BIM & GIS at industry leading hospital architecture firm. Worked for CEO, on Advisor team, with Analytics team, & interacted with almost every single staff member over course of over two years. Stood up new Building Informatics service to provide FM Handover capabilities. Scoped & managed software development of new architectural programming solution built on SketchUp Pro. Tied this into existing architectural design & documentation process using Dynamo for Revit. Specified & started to execute integrating this into facilities management common data exchange platform: EcoDomus.com using CityGML. Managed programmer in Estonia.
Captivate4d.com, Huntingdon Valley PA, Founder & Technical Director
We provided Consumer to Professional technology solutions related to capturing product Reality, developing Online content, & delivering Immersive web experiences.
GSA.gov/BIM, Philadelphia, PA, US, Computer Integrated Facilities Manager
Primary point of contact regarding implementation & technical support for all things BIM for largest real property owner in North America. Worked for Regional Director, on I.T. staff, with National Headquarters, & interacted with almost every single related SME across whole country over course of 6years. Founding member & initial data architect for bleeding edge GSA Central Facilities Repository(CFR) built upon open source stack of IFC & COBie based on bimserver.org & Alfresco.com. Managed programmer in Finland.
micea.net, Philadelphia, PA, US, Founder & Technical Director
Created & lead network of BIM consultants providing residential design outsourcing services for regional home builders. Worked for developers throughout Washington DC to Boston business corridor from middle of US housing bubble bursting through sub-prime mortgage crisis to tail end of Great Recession finally recovering. This was benevolent effort to keep dozen skillful CAD Managers gainfully employed during toughest years of all of our careers thus far. Implemented VisionRez for layouts, hsbCAD & AccuFrame for wall panels, & Alpine for roof trusses based on LISP. Managed programmers in several US states.
Toll Architecture, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, US, Corporate CAD Manager
Managed five direct report CAD Managers supporting 215 AutoCad Architecture (3d) users for most profitable home builder in North America. I worked for Vice President, on architecture staff, with dozen other subsidiary companies, & interacted with almost every job title along life-cycle of building from land surveyor, through structural engineering, to manufacturing assembly line workers, to construction site carpenters. Provided extensive custom software programming development delivering solutions so useful they were still in production full five years after left company. Started digital artwork department of ten staff using 3ds Max. Completed man year worth of curated research & experimentation on connecting project management database solutions with 3d framing modeling for fabrication solutions. Managed programmer in Ecuador.
Expression College, Emeryville CA, US, Bachelors, Computer Graphics
Program Description: At time newest "Total Immersion" education in Digital Visual Media (i.e. movie special effects & gaming) via Entertainment Industry standards in 3D modeling, rendering, & animation.
Accomplishments: Completed Maya Character Animator Certification which was only degree available at time I left as school accreditation was unfortunately delayed beyond my available time to stay in CA.
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston MA, US, BArch, Architecture
Program Description: At time newest NCAAB accredited program in country.
Accomplishments: Completed most general & required credits in preparation for thesis studio but night school closed before invited to start. Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), State College PA, US, Bachelors, Engineering
Program Description: At time #2 Architectural Engineering Technology program in world.
Accomplishments: Completed engineering core 2-1/2 years of coursework but ROTC scholarship did not transfer to architecture as expected.
Audited many multi-day professional certificate training programs, Other
AEC related: LEED Green Associate; Lean Continuous Improvement
BIM related: Stanford CIFE VDC; PSU BIM PxP; Solibri MC Rulesets; BIMforum LoD Spec
Autodesk related: AutoCad Pro; Maya Character Animator; Revit Architecture Pro; Navisworks Manage Fundamentals
I.T. related: ITIL Foundation; COBIT Foundation; TOGAF+FEAF Foundation; Microsoft MTA Networking Fundamentals; Microsoft MTA Security Fundamentals; Amazon AWS Cloud Practitioner
Software Development related: AutoCad VisualLISP; AutoCad VBA.Net; SBOK Agile Expert; SBOK Scrum Product Owner
Project Management related: PMI CAPM; PMBOK Associate in Project Management
