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Experience

• CAD Design Manager Consulting Engineers Group · Full-time Jan 2024 – Apr 2024 3 mos Tucson, AZ, United States OCTOBER 2019 TO APRIL 2024
  CAD/Project Design Manager (Renewable Energy, BESS, Transmission, Distribution & Substation), Consulting Engineers Group
  
  As the CAD & Project Manager for Transmission, Distribution, Substation, BESS, Solar and Wind projects, my responsibilities include the following:
  • assigning work to drafting group based on availability and project timelines
  • create project schedules and deadlines
  • develop software training
  • develop standard practices for the design team
  • interview and hire incoming team members
  • develop interview questionnaire and testing materials
  • hold weekly meetings
  • review drawing packages for accuracy and drafting practices
  • Incorporate and implement new software
  • Research and keep up top date with industry standards and practices
  • Manage software for the company, update to newer versions as they are released, introduce new software when needed and solve software problems as they arise
  • Review quality control practices and review teams overall drawing completeness, minimizing errors
  • Working with other departments within the company to ensure the drafting team is taking lessons learned when projects are complete and applying modifications to future design problems
  • Communicate with outside consultants to seamlessly incorporate all drawing sets into one cohesive project set
  • Attend software conventions to network and grow in the industry
  • Manager of the website and the development of the website and all the content within
• Electrical Designer Tucson Electric Power · Full-time Jul 2015 – Jan 2020 4 yrs 6 mos Tucson, AZ, United States As an Electrical Engineering Designer for substations, my responsibilities have included the following:
  CAD drafting and design of electrical substations, power distribution, understand NESC, NEC and IEEE standards and regulations, prepare and design general arrangement plans, sections, elevations, electrical schematics, lighting, details, cable schedule, and connection drawings to provide within a completed construction package. Provide and perform quality control reviews of designs, coordinate workload and complete work within a given time frame with limited supervision. Complete bill of materials and forecasting materials, ordering long lead materials and prepare cost estimates. In addition, I designed protection plans, calculated conductor sizing, perform load calculations etc., to accommodate the designs. Oversee projects from the initial budgeting stages, through design, coordinating delivery of materials, coordinating construction and finally putting the substation back into service.
  
  At TEP, I trained in Inventor and AutoCAD Electrical with the new features of SDS toolsets. I was tasked to lead the team in learning the new software, successfully complete a project in the software, convert drawings and develop new smart blocks that SDS had not yet converted or created and finally, training the overall design team to be able to use the software to continue forward in future projects using the new technology.