Wow – what a day. Started off teaching my class on CAD Manager Career Path. I discussed the process of moving your career ahead and taking control of it. Do not let your career just happen. Plan on making progress. On area I discussed was asking for a raise. One point I brought up was [...]
Monday was a full day of events that started for me with an AUGI Board meeting to discuss and finalize all of the AUGI plans for AU. Then it was off to lunch and the Community Leadership Event. Robert Green, Beverly Arnoldy speaking on leadership and planning for growth in a user group. Leading RUGIE, [...]
Day one is on Monday -so Sunday must be Day Zero. Arrived on Sunday at 6:00 pm after a drive from home (So Cal) to Vegas. Checked in to the Venetian and hoofed it over to the Palazzo Hotel for dinner with the AUGI Board. Our host was Extension Media. They publish the Autodesk Resource [...]
I will be in the Portland, Oregon area for the June AUGI Board of Directors meeting at the end of this week. If you are local to that area, then join me and my AUGI buddies at a “Meet-Up” – check here for details.
I just returned from presenting three classes at the Salt Lake City CAD Camp. It was a well attended event in downtown SLC. Matt Murphy “Revealed” several classes. David Cohn presented on Annotation Scaling for Text. There were Civil, Architectural and Manufacturing focused classes. I presented on CAD Leadership, Preventative CAD Management and working with [...]
I attended the AUGI CAD Camp today. It was located near LAX airport. It was a great event. AUGI provided a wide range of educational presentations. Matt Murphy was the master of ceremonies, as he does so well at so many events. He presented some of his “Revealed” topics. Other presenters included Robert Green on [...]
I will be speaking at the ASPE (American Society of Professional Estimators) Building Information Modeling seminar in Las Vegas this Friday. I will be speaking on the topic of who is using BIM, what tools they are using and how BIM is changing the AEC market. The event is a one day seminar held at [...]
Christmas Bells – by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1864) As with any composition that touches the heart of the hearer, this poem flowed from the experience of Longfellow. When Longfellow penned the words to this poem, America was still embroiled in it’s Civil War and months away from Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House [...]




