Professional Summary

To pursue a position as an AutoCAD/Entry-Level Revit Draftsman in the Architecture/Engineering field, this would allow the opportunity to utilize my educational background and years of experience to attain new job-related skills.

Experience

Engineering Technician (drafter) / Document Control

Black & Veatch (Power Delivery/ Substation)

Overland Park, Kansas March 2006 – April 2019

Revise redline existing or create new drawing in the 2D layout of AG & BG drawings, civil layout drawings, R&C Wiring, Schematic, One line and Panel for the substation. The drawings are drawn using AutoCAD 2015.

Revised field as-built drawings that consist of corrections made by the field personal on site.

Worked closely with other professionals in the office and satellite offices to check out & check in drawings and related information from the client’s database for the engineers working on the substation project(s).

Organized the items that are kept in D2, which are kept in folders called Existing drawings, Existing Materials, New drawings & New Materials.

Created PDFs from the issued drawings to be sent down to reproduction, in order for the hard copies of the substation package to be produced & mailed to the client.

AutoCAD Draftsman

Southwest Signal Engineering Company

Mission, Kansas May 1997 – March 2006

Drawing is a 2D-type layout of electrical circuits in a house or case. The electrical circuits are of gates, switches, lights and house equipment.

Drawings are a 2D type consisting miles of railroad track layout where the crossings, mileposts and locations of houses and cases along the track.

Redraw drawings of old existing drawings that are not in the computer are redrawn into AutoCAD or Microstation SE form for future use.

Field As-Built drawings are where you update the drawings by doing the corrections that the field personal made at the site.

The drawings are drawn in four types of CAD software, which are AutoCAD2000i, RasterCAD, Microstation SE and I/ras b.

Education:

College Degrees: Johnson County Community College – Overland Park, Kansas March 1999 – May 2000

Intermediate Computer-Aided Drafting (DRAF 230)

This course provided increased knowledge in the use of AutoCAD r14, with its new commands and techniques to increase productivity. It also provided additional study in the use of standard tools like symbols, layers, external referencing, paper space, multiple view drawings and etc.

Computer-Aided drafting 3D (DRAF 231)

This course provided the use of AutoCAD r14 to construct 3D computer models. It also provided the ability to use the Visualization Commands and techniques to put surfaces on the 3D wire models and plot them in a 3D model drawing.

Interpreting Architectural Drawings (DRAF 129)

This course provides the fundamental knowledge of Interpreting Architectural construction drawings. In understanding plan and elevation Views, sections, details, schedules, specifications, symbols and Abbreviations found on residential & commercial drawings.

Architectural Desktop R1 (DRAF 242)

This course provided another look into 2D drawings and 3D Modeling Drawings to where they can be produced at the same time. It uses items Like Mass model concepts of the geometric primitives to produce the Models. It can use AutoCAD's basic lines, arch and polylines and Convert them into 3D form. The course showed another tool in the world of Architectural design.

College Degrees: Kaw Area Technical School – Topeka, Kansas May 1997 – June 1997

CADD Certificate

Course in learning & understanding the tools of AutoCAD r13 in the field of study using Architecture techniques

Addnitional Education/skills: Dec 2019 – March 2020

Revit Architecture 2018

I have been going into an architect firm teaching myself 2018 Revit Architecture, by using their software & equipment. I have also done this by watching online/youtube Revit & MEP courses and teaching dvds to learn how to use the Revit Architecture and Revit MEP software.