Experience Summary
SUMMARY
Lead CAD technician with over 7 years of experience in supervising interns, CAD technicians and surveyors; storing alignments, generating profiles, developing digital terrain models (DTMs), interpreting topographic surveys, conducting as-built/plan research for existing municipal utilities, property, boundary and easement information. Assist P.E.’s and R.P.L.S. in producing construction plans and as-built drawings.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Kimley-Horn & Associates, Inc., Dallas, TX CAD Operator 08/2012 – Present
Civil Design Experience
? Assist engineers with laying out proposed alignments.
? Store alignments and generate profiles of water and sanitary sewer pipeline in accordance with city standards.
? Generate profiles of existing surfaces.
? Develop specifications/details in accordance with manufacturer manuals.
? Prepare exhibits that show project scope with use of color aerials. ? Use CAD to redesign, modify or otherwise edit existing design.
? Maintain proper seed files and conversions from different platforms, global origins and working units.
? Assist with setting up and maintaining project directory structure for proper CAD utilization.
Lim & Associates, Inc., Dallas, TX Lead CAD Technician 07/2004 – 08/2012
Civil Design Experience
? Involvement in over 200 plan and profile water and sanitary sewer design segments.
? Assist engineers in generating construction drawings for municipal civil projects such as water, sanitary sewer, pavement and storm design.
? Use Microstation/Geopak software to store alignments, generate profiles and cut sheets.
? Basic engineering calculations: calculate inverts, slopes and calculate cross utilities for sanitary sewer design.
? Investigate horizontal alignment of existing water, sanitary sewer and storm sewer for design analysis.
? Coordinate workload with surveyors and CAD technicians in order to ensure design quality and timely completion.
Survey Experience
? Use terrain-modeling software to build existing ground surfaces by inserting break lines, contour data and point data.
? Process and analyze raw survey data using modeling software.
? Generate complete and accurate topographic maps.
? Familiar with state plane survey coordinate translation.
? Assist R.P.L.S. in researching abstract maps, generating survey plats and writing deeds.
? Perform boundary and easement reconstruction from plat information and field survey.
? Two years experience as rod man surveyor with basic knowledge as instrument man.
? Perform field checks of project sites or survey areas to verify survey results or features.
ACADEMICS - Architectural
Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Dec. 2010
Design Studio Experience
? Generate section and plan drawings using CAD software from construction drawings and hand sketches.
? Ability to model in 3-D using AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max, Sketchup or Revit and organize final layouts in Photoshop.
? Ability to produce hand sketches using various media to architectural scale.
? Ability to produce basswood and chip board models to scale from plan and section/elevation drawings.