OBJECTIVE SUMMARY

Engineering professional currently looking for an opportunity to re-enter the engineering field to best utilize 20+ years of AutoCAD design skills.

EDUCATION

ITT Technical Institute, VA Beach, VA

AutoCAD R12, Hand Drafting (Credited 24.0 Hours)

Associate of Business Admin (Not Completed)

AutoCAD R12, Hand Drafting, Math & Business Management

Wake Tech Community College, Garner, NC

Certification/Credited

12/1988 to 02/1989 Mechanical Hand Drafting

09/1987 to 10/1987 PC-DOS Programming

WORK EXPERIENCE

American Tower

STRUCTURAL DESIGNER I May 2014 – April 2015

Working with the Civil/Structural engineer to create structural modification to existing or new cell tower.

• Providing modification drawings that include upgrades, extensions and reinforcements to towers and foundations.

• Create preliminary bills of materials, quantity estimates, and fabrication drawings for proposed reinforcing projects for budget estimates.

• Collaborate on design matters with engineering staff.

• Develop CAD library of previous modification and extension templates to optimize design effort.

• Perform detailed QA/QC of drawings.

• Develop new processes and procedures relating to modification drawings and CAD services.

• Evaluate new software and other products that may improve processes and procedures.

Tower Engineering Professionals

SURVEY TECHNICIAN July 2013 – January, 2014

Survey CAD Technician at the Raleigh Office. (AutoCAD Land Development 2007) Gathered field data. Collected and analyzed source maps, survey data, photographs, computer records and other information. Processed measurements and information about land using computers. Drew up plans by recording information, making calculations and plotting information into the required format - this was done either by hand or on a computer using CAD (computer-aided design). Prepared sub-division plans.

Operated and managed land-information computer systems. Carried out computations associated with land measurement. Took measurements and make observations from aerial photographs. Stored data in geographic information systems (GIS) and undertook activities such as inquiries, reports and plot production. Set out marks to locate construction activities.

Made maps showing features and associated information. Prepared plans of land information. Took measurements associated with management of natural resources and mining activities.

The Habitat for Humanity – Volunteer Consulting Work

CAD DESIGNER February 2009 - Present

From time to time I do some volunteer consulting work using AutoCAD 2013 for Habitat Humanity. Although retired my father has a position as one of the district managers for Macon County in NC. He would hand draw Architectural residential floor plans, backyard decks, and whatever was needed to be submit to the City/County board. And I would take the hand draft drawings and recreate them to AutoCAD 2013 to be signed and sealed documents.

Duke Energy/Progress Energy – Telecomm. & Sub Stations

DOCUMENT SPECIALIST March 2011 – March 2012

Using programs such as AutoCAD 2012, Microsoft Visio, Microstation V8, Microsoft Office Pro, and Adobe Acrobat X Pro. I would work directly with the supervision of designers and engineers to create new drawings based on sketches, and modify existing drawings based on markups. Learn how to determine substation phase spacing and electrical clearance requirements for live conductors, switch components and bus supports. Develop construction drawings (Layouts, Elevations, Details, Grounding Plans and Details, Trench & Conduit Plan) based on direction provided redlines by engineers and ore experienced designers.

Crown Castle, Inc. – Wireless Telecommunications

TSA & CAD DESIGNER June 2010 – December 2010 – Phoenix, AZ

June 2007 – April 2010 – Morrisville, NC

Using programs such as AutoCAD 2012, Microsoft Visio, Microstation V8, Microsoft Office Pro, and Adobe Acrobat X Pro. As a TSA (Tower Structural Analyst) I would process tower structural applications for varies carriers (such as Verizon, AT&T Sprint and many others) In short I would have to go through all forums of information materials that was available to ensure that the application by the wireless carriers would be able to install new or replace wireless equipment in Crown Castle cell towers. Processed Vender Appliance for new Installation on Towers and upgraded Ground Equipment (like cabinets, antennas, microwave dishes, base stations and coax lines). I would look over all CAD drawings (such as lease exhibits, detail construction drawings and tower structural drawings) to check and see if any modifications that needed to be made for the new/replace equipment on the tower and compound site. With Appliance approval and CAD drawings complete, it is sent to the Field Technician for post-construction Punch Walk. Field notes and photos were checked to confirm equipment matched the Appliance and drawings.

KCI, Technologies – Raleigh, NC

PROJECT MANAGER &

SR. CAD DESIGNER March 2005 – September 2008

Contracted to Crown Castle (Charlotte District) as a TSA (See details above). KCI hired me to perform varies discipline projects ranging from Commercial and Residential Civil Site Design, Building Systems and Telecom in Cellular Phone Towers. Where ever they CAD Design work was needed. Which led to performing Field Site Walks, Lease Exhibits, Zoning, CDs, As-builts and Revisions for Cellular Phone Towers, Rooftops and Raw Land Sites. Duties: Telecommunication Projects with Sprint, Nextel, Verizon, AT&T, American Tower, Triton PCS and others. Civil Sites included Subdivisions, Commercial Buildings, Residential Sites and more. Worked directly with Engineers to produce CD’s, As-builts, Revisions and extra services to clients. Building Systems included Electrical (Power & Lighting), Mechanical (HVAC), Plumbing and Fire Protection for Commercial and Residential Buildings. Programs: AutoCAD 2010, Microsoft Visio, Microstation V8, Microsoft Office Pro, and Adobe Acrobat.

ALCOA Wireless Services, Inc. – Cary, NC

CAD DESIGNER September 2003 – January 2005

CAD Designer for Cary Office. (AutoCAD 2002). Responsible for Lease Exhibits, Zoning, CD’s, As-builts, and Revisions for Cellular phone Towers, Rooftops, and Raw Land Sites. Including Civil Site Drawings and Electrical Components. Worked on hundreds of Telecommunication Projects with Sprint, Nextel, Verizon, AT&T, American Tower, Triton PCS, and others.

John R. McAdams, Inc. – Durham, NC

CAD DESIGNER December 2001 – May 2003

Civil / CAD Designer for Landfill Department (AutoCAD 14 to 2002, Softdesk to LDD). Responsible for Permits and Civil Site Design of Landfills, including Erosion Control, Profiles, Sewer Lines, Volume Calculations, Landfill life expectancy, Land Development design on Subdivisions, Road & Highway, Commercial Building, Residential Sites and more. Working directly with the Engineer to producing CD’s, As-builts, Revisions, and Extra Services to the Client. Helping the Survey Department for map checks, deed information, closing of the lot, and final QA/QC.

Adecco – Cary, NC

ADMINISTER/CAD TECH June 2001 – October 2001

Contract AutoCAD Designer for: (06/01/01 - 10/28/01) Clark, Richardson, & Biskup, Inc. for 4 mouths. Duties include using AutoCAD 2000 in some design and a lot of red to black markups of Facilities of Pharmaceuticals. Biogen, Bayer, Purdue, Catalytica, Abgenix, Andrx and etc. are just some of the Pharmaceutical that CRB work on.

Contract AutoCAD Designer for: (01/05/01 - 05/30/01) Carter::Burgess, Inc. Work for the Facilities department as the CADD Tech. II Administer. The only reason for leaving is because the work in Telecommunications is hard to get at this time. And they cannot keep me billable.

SENIOR CAD DESIGNER SKILLS

The title of a Senior CAD Designer comes with a very big responsible. Mainly to hold all CAD Designs to CAD Standards should as AEC Standards, AIA Cad Layer Guidelines, and NCDOT CAD Civil Standards. Which are the ones over the years I have had to work with. Every job discipline is very different from each other when it comes to Engineering and Design. But they all share one thing in common, holding to CAD Standards.

All drawings look like they were done by the same person and very important…

Shows how professional the Engineering Company or Firm produces great quality engineering design work.

Some of the things to look for in CAD Standards and QC…

Spell Checking – Very important to look like you know how to spell even the simplest of words.

Layers – All drawings in CAD need the capability to turn on or off layers by groups or single layers. Example groups: Existing (as it is now), Remove/Demo, (as it will be remove from site/location) Proposed (as it will be) and Future (as it could be later) design work.

Linetypes & Lineweight– Existing - lines are continuous and thin weight, Remove – lines are dashed or hidden and medium weight, Proposed - lines are continuous and are heavy weight to show the new design work over the existing.

Colors Lines – To visibly see the different type discipline and utilities on a CAD drawing.

Title Blocks – Is what shows who engineered and design the drawings with the company/firms name and steal.

Setting up drawings – Which is important to have the standards set in place before you start drawing anything. Like what scale is, sheet size, xfers, viewports and many more.

Last Plotting – Before printing the final set of drawings that is signed and seal by the engineer…All drawings are checked first by the drafter/designer, second by the Senior or QA/QC Manager before it ever goes to the engineer.

DESIGN & CAD SKILLS

•Telecommunications - wireless cellular phone towers, landlines, data and more

•Electrical - Power & lighting floor plans in commercial and residential.

•Mechanical - HVAC, plumbing, fire protection and power risers in commercial and residential.

•Civil site design of small and larger plates with Autodesk Land Development in commercial and residential.

•Performing site walks of compounds to create site sketches and As-built drawings and CAD.

•Taking field measurements and photos that would show existing and current conditions of the site.

•Architectural commercial and residential floor plan design.

•And also some civil structural bridge design.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

•Microsoft Excel and Word

•Microsoft Exchange design/optimization

•Disaster recovery technologies

•Security engineering

•AutoCAD 2013 and later versions

•Autodesk Land Development 2007

•Microsoft Visio

•MicroStation V8

•Adobe Acrobat X Pro

•Adobe Photoshop CS5

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