Other CM's have chosen to
expand their work areas and job responsibilities as they move
beyond the CAD arena to include other technologies. I want
to look at the ones who have expanded by chose.
What I am trying to get at is
that the CAD Manager role is expanding. Many of us have
moved into areas that we never thought possible in the early
stage of our careers. Some of us have added on other hats
and move totally out of the CAD Manager role. We now
oversee other CAD Managers. Or maybe we are getting more
involved with other IT issues.
A new role has surfaced - the
Corporate CAD Manager. The CorpCADMan oversees multiple
offices and division of a firm. They oversee other
employees that have the CAD Manager label. They
orchestrate the overall corporate efforts related to CAD.
They coordinate and set standards for sharing work among
offices. They streamline the work efforts and make sure
that every office is working toward the same goal.
Then some of us have moved on
beyond the CAD Manager roles into IT Management, CTO or even CIO
roles. We oversee IT and CAD. Taking a corporate
level function that melds together the IT structure and the CAD
workflow. Fine tuning the whole company toward efficiency
and production.
Here are some areas that CAD
Managers are now involved in:
- Web development
- Video Conferencing
- FTP management
- Project web sites
- Collaboration efforts and
file sharing
- Client Management
- 3D Visualization
- Programming efforts for
system utilities
- Asset Management
- Digital Archiving
- Data Exchange
Standardization
- Sarbanes Oxley compliance
- Offsite hardcopy storage
- Digital Asset Management -
images, photos, etc.
- LAN and WAN bandwidth
management
- New Hire candidate
screening
- Strategic business
planning
- Training manager and
coordinator
- Digital security and
assurance
- Intellectual Property
Rights
- Database Management
I could go on and on, but you
get the point. I am seeing more and more that, depending
on the industry, the CAD Manager is moving higher and higher in
the ranks of technology management.