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Project Manager Welding Inspector

Location:
Safety Harbor, FL, 33884
Posted:
April 11, 2012

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Resume:

RICHARD GRANDY

**** *********** ****, ****** *****, FL 33884

***********@*******.***

863-***-****

PROFILE: Accomplished professional with over 20 years of experience in AutoCAD and SDS/2 detailing, drafting and design in an A/E/C environment. Area of expertise:

Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) Complex SDS/2 Modeling

Structural & Miscellaneous Steel Detailing SDS/2 Implementation/Configuration

AutoCAD Operator Standards Development

Personnel Training Project Management

Purchasing Management Operations Management

AISC Fabricator Certification Detailing Management

Estimating

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

March 2005-Present Operations Manager, Project Manager/Detailer

Custom Welding and Fabrication, Inc., Auburndale, FL

Headed process to get AISC Fabricator Certification; In the process of becoming Certified Auditor.

Certified Welding Inspector (CWI); Passed exam first time at the AWS facility in Miami, FL.

Responsible for managing in-house and contract Detailers; Project Management; Scheduling of fabrication and erection.

Detailing and checking structural and miscellaneous projects using AutoCAD and SDS/2. Job sizes are 200 to 500 tons; Banks, schools, office buildings, prisons, parking garages, etc.

Supervising and training employees in drafting and detailing using AutoCAD and SDS/2.

2002-2004 Project Manager/Detailer, McGill Engineering, Inc., Tampa, FL

Started the SDS/2 group with only myself detailing and hired one more experienced SDS/2 detailer, trained one detailer to use SDS/2 and hired four inexperienced detailers from a college in Kansas.

Managed all SDS/2 projects.

Trained and supervised group of six.

Detailed numerous structural steel projects using AutoCAD and SDS/2. Job sizes ranged from 700 tons to 1,500 tons; Multi-floored office buildings, large pipe racks.

1996-2002, 2004-2005 Project Manager/Detailer, The Steel Detailers, Seminole, FL

Learned steel detailing using AutoCAD, SteelCAD and SDS/2.

Started managing projects after two years of just detailing.

Helped train board drafters to use AutoCAD.

Helped train AutoCAD detailers to use SDS/2.

Detailing and checking of numerous structural steel projects. Job sizes ranged from 200 tons to 3,000 tons; Malls, movie cinemas, hospitals, schools, churches, GM assembly plants, condos, etc .

1990-1996

I was a sub-contractor for various companies. Using AutoCAD, I spent a couple of years drawing commercial and industrial aluminum handrails and ornate aluminum gates and fences. I also spent a few years doing some mechanical drafting. This consisted of doing detail and assembly drawings of balers and shears. I was hired on to Harris Group in 1994 to transfer board drawings for a large shear onto AutoCAD. This shear was being sold to the Russians as part of the Lugar Fund to shear their old submarines into scrap metal.

Education

1989-1990 Architectural and Mechanical Drafting, Moultrie Technical Institute.

Certified AutoCAD operator.

Certified SDS/2 operator.

Certified Welding Inspector (CWI)



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