Cas Architects, Inc. Work Values

Daily Duties at Cas Architects, Inc.:

CAS Responsibilities I was responsible to generate at least $75,000 of new revenue a month which I achieved. As part of that, I conducted all of Komag’s design/build work on 45 projects over 4-1/2 years. There were 5 principals and each of us has different areas of responsibility. Mine were as follows: IT: I was CIO and had numerous interrelated responsibilities. Identifying new and useful technologies, evaluating them, leading an effort for rapid company adoption and acceptance, forging new beneficial workflows and setup all the related training systems and purchased the needed hardware & software implementations for ongoing success. • Out of that ongoing effort I created an IT infrastructure from scratch for an office of 50 that created a significant competitive advantage. • We quickly leveraged the new 3D project information to use for effective marketing collateral to great effect; we found that rendered 3D computer images had the same impact on our credibility with clients as photographs of built projects. • I transitioned the company from historic hand drafting production to AutoCAD which created a new highly efficient workflow, training systems and production standards. The results were that accuracy, efficiency and effectiveness were greatly improved and it increased our marketing success and profitability. • We embraced 3DStudio Max for 3D presentations and fly-through animations for client presentations, City Planning Department approvals and for board of Director project funding submissions. • Previously all other administrative systems were paper based systems. I implemented a new accounting software system and I generated a custom database available to all staff to track all project information and leveraged and integrated that with a marketing database. Knowledge Management and Staff Training: I lead a knowledge management initiative to collect useful design and production information and intellectual capital that could be reused for greater efficiency and higher quality. This included, standard drawing sheets in AutoCAD, standard specifications, a standard detail system, standard wall types and evolved to include hardware and finish schedules. These were created from scratch and did not exist before. We setup a new-hire training system to indoctrinate them quickly into the firm’s design procedures and production standards. We allocated 5% of staff’s time to ongoing training on a variety of useful topics to support their professional development and to grow the firm’s capabilities. Recognizing that many plots were not being billed, I setup one of the first plot billing systems based on Access. This resulted in a net profit of $125,000/year. My CAD manager went on to build that concept into a commercial product and did well with it. I setup a QA/QC system for the office to filter out errors and inconsistencies.

What they like about Cas Architects, Inc.:

Organizations with strong, centralized leadership are particularly attractive to you. You require a work environment with leadership that aggressively seeks to expand and grow the business and does so in a visible and decisive manner. In general you prefer to work in an environment in which there is a strong link between leadership, its actions, and a strong set of company-wide values.

Tags

architect, project manager, BIM, senior, IPD, lab, clean room, revit

Skills

Revit, Word, Photoshop, PowerPoint, MS Project, AutoCAD, Sales, Presentations, Proposals, Code Analysis, Pre-Design, Project Management, High-Tech Projects, Laboratories, Process driven design, Project Strategies, Project Schedules, Clean room design, Housing design, BIM, Process Improvement/streamlining, Knowledge Management, Innovation, Exploiting Technology Advancements, Systems Thinking, Lateral Thinking, Understanding of Engineered Systems, Acoustics, Client management, Web Based Project Collaboration, Leadership, Excel

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