About Me

I first learned to use AutoCAD in 1992. I quickly decided to focus on Civil Engineering since it seemed to fit well with my surveying and mapping experiences in the US Army and my geology studies at the University of Iowa.

In Arizona, I worked in several civil engineering firms who hired me to transition them from manual to CAD drafting. After learning, implementing and training others on DCA, Softdesk, and AutoCAD, I knew that teaching was what I wanted to do.

In 1996, I became an independent consultant, providing technical services for customers all over the world. In an effort to clone myself due to overwhelming demand, I started K-TEK in 2001. The team grew to 74 people in seven countries in five years. My yearning to return to the customer realm led me to sign on with Autodesk in 2006 as a technical evangelist.