Electrical Designer Computer Aided

James Boone

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West Columbia, SC ***73

803-***-**** www.powersofteng.com ad5or3@r.postjobfree.com www.meetup.com/midlandsbim/

SUMMARY:

ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL with 32-years’ experience in computer aided design. Applied knowledge and experience to manage accuracy and precision. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Aug/2023 – Apr/2024 HA Sack Lexington, SC

Electrical Designer

• Expert in both Revit and AutoCAD. There is nothing I can’t do.

• Virtual Design and Construction expert.

• Created a Tip Of The Day tutorials for BIM staff.

• Used Navisworks, Autodesk Cloud, Revit and BimCollab to detect collisions with other disciplines components.

• Designed building from start to finish, modeling electrical support members, conduit runs, basket and cable trays for 15KV, 480V cable tray, 1600A Bus Ducts, lateral supports and created bill of materials for multi-million dollar project at the BMW car manufacturing plant in Greer SC.

• Determined over 6 miles of unistrut and details of each component for pre-fab shop to delivery to job-site.

• The HA Sack BIM Manger told me that I was on a level they had never seen anywhere before.

Aug/2022 – Jul/2023 GMK Associates Columbia, SC

Electrical Designer

• Standardized many aspects of my Revit template and refined pen weight and font naming schemes that make selections much easier to comprehend and easier to select.

• Refined family parameters and customizing sizing parameters.

• Modeled South Carolina State House in Revit 2023 using sweeps, customized railing patterns, doors, windows, frames, components, decorative columns. crown moldings and decorative ceilings. In less than 200 hours. I have thousands of reference images inside and out.

Feb/2022 – Aug/2022 Recore Electrical Contractor Gastonia, NC Electrical Designer

• Hired as a work-for-hire contractor to work on an industrial plant in Kingtsree, SC creating Revit and AutoCAD drawings for its infrastructure of buildings and its fire alarm systems, controls and signaling devices.

• Came up with solutions for dimensions, using laser measuring devices, and methods for drafting existing buildings and infrastructure such as levels, catwalks, working platforms, doors, stairwells, windows, pipe bridges and catwalks.

• Drafted all site buildings in Revit from dimensions gathered from in field measurements and exported to AutoCAD because there there was so many buildings and drawings. May/2019 – Dec/2021 SIMS GROUP ENGINEERS Irmo, SC

Electrical Designer

• Proficient in Revit and AutoCAD. Purchased a personal copy of Chief Architect (an residential BIM software) for personal use and mastered it quickly from experience in Revit.

• Lighting, power, fire alarm, security and communications design on many types of buildings from; office, warehouse, gyms, schools, Riverbanks Zoo, theaters

• Mastered skills in foot candle lighting, point to point short circuit analysis, wire size selection, sizing electrical loads to panelboard schedules and risers, voltage drop calculations and wrote computer programs to display and calculate them

• Mastered Elumtools (lighting foot candle levels) for Revit and Visual

• Currently serving as beta tester for Autodesk and Vue (Bentley) software and influenced many changes for improvement in AutoCAD, Revit, 3DS Max and Inventor from 1997 to present and considered top 1% of software products beta testers in the world. Feb/2004 – Apr/2019 STEVENS AND WILKINSON, INC. Columbia, SC Electrical Designer

• Proficient in Microstation V7 to V8i, AutoCAD v11 to version 2020, Revit 2009 to 2021, 3DStudio 2006 to 2021 including VB using Visual Studio & Lisp programming

• Lighting, power, fire alarm, security and communications design on many types of buildings from; hospital, office, warehouse, gyms, retail, schools, courthouse, security, labs, Corps Of Engineers and many others

• Mastered skills in foot candle lighting, point to point short circuit analysis, wire size selection, sizing electrical loads to panelboard schedules and risers, voltage drop calculations and wrote computer programs to display and calculate them

• Mastered Elumtools (lighting foot candle levels) for Revit and Visual 2019

• Currently serving as beta tester for Autodesk and Vue (Bentley) software and influenced many changes for improvement in AutoCAD, Revit, 3DS Max and Inventor from 1997 to present and considered top 1% of software products beta testers in the world. Developer managers know me by name where I have influenced many improvement implementations

• Influenced the decision to purchase and use 3D software for Architectural Visualization in rendering and animation

• Acquired a personal account for ArcGIS studies and grew practical experience with modeling massive 3d terrains and landscape rendering

• Modeled many buildings and terrain of Columbia SC with a 25 by 11 mile area and learned how to accomplish it and created an animation of it to city counsel leaders

• Studied 3d printing for Architectural visualization

• Increased office productivity by writing a Tip of The Week newsletter for CAD, MS Office, office standards, and writing a 250 page user guide for Revit with implementation documentation

• Wrote many other computer related software macros used in an A/E environment which help greatly in CAD production

• Operate a Word Press and HTML web site for sales of software and book

• Compiled software program with piracy protection and licensing authorization schemes for programs which were submitted for sales on web site and to Autodesk Exchange Apps for the AutoCAD plug-ins

• Was a member of SC Inventors Network where I studied methods in a classroom environment to take marketable products from idea to manufacturer. Learned skills of how to take those ideas and the best methods to introduce products to manufacturers from industry leaders and other inventors

• Drafted site work civil projects for Civil Engineer. Feb/1992 – Jan/2004 GMK ASSOCIATES Columbia, SC

Electrical Designer

• Skilled at computer-aided drafting and electrical design of hospital and other commercial facilities. Performed duties in civil design such as parking lots, topographic elevations and water flow sections

• Utilized experience in drafting speed, accuracy and precision for AutoCAD 11 - 14 for modifying and coordinating manufacturers drawings for hospital special equipment such as MRI, CT and radiology

• Used Autocad and Civil 3D in its infancy to for site work projects and details for Civil Engineer

• Influenced decision for many changes such as referencing, drafting techniques, layer standards and file storage methods

• Authored specialized AutoCAD program to track printer paper usage earning additional revenue and published in Catalyst Magazine Self-taught MS Visual Basic 6.0 and developed a comprehensive flexible program specialized in electrical engineering field adaptable to write Excel spreadsheets and storage in databases, short circuit calculations and top notch voltage drop calculations www.powersofteng.com

• Experienced in website development

EDUCATION:

Midlands Technical College Columbia, SC

Computer Science (40 * Credit Hours)

Proficient in AutoCAD, Autodesk Developer Network Publisher, Microstation, Revit, 3D Studio, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office, Sony Vegas, MS Visual Studio, desktop publishing, presentation software, electrical wiring and trouble shooting, web page editing, Canon EOS photography/ film-making, GoPro, photo editing and many more skills.

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