Drafting and design in AutoCAD from Release 12 and in MicroStation, certified in both by 1995.
The first substantial application was digitising historical railroad property maps dating back to the 1800s for CSX RPI, including MDL application development against the MicroStation platform — the first work in a career that has kept returning to the problem of putting physical infrastructure into a data model.
It came back years later in an unexpected place: the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office countywide wireless survey predated the propagation software that does it for you, so the coverage heat maps were built in AutoCAD’s survey tools from measured readings taken driving the county.
And it never really left. The outside plant drawings, the data centre rack elevations and the courthouse closet layouts are all the same discipline.
Applied in
- Nassau County Sheriff's Office Countywide WirelessMulti-tower public safety wireless across a large rural county, surveyed by driving it and plotting the readings by hand.
- CSX Railroad Map DigitisationDigitising CSX property maps dating back to the 1800s, with MDL application development against MicroStation.
Career
- MicroStation CAD Developer · JIM King (leased to CSX RPI)
- AutoCAD Technician and Network Support Specialist · Chance & Causseux Engineering
Attested by
- AutoCAD Design Certification, R12 and R13The first certification of the career, earned while still at university and working as a drafting technician.
- MicroStation Design CertificationBentley MicroStation design certification, earned immediately before the CSX railroad map digitisation work.