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AutoCAD & MicroStation

Where the career began — and the tool used decades later to plot wireless coverage heat maps by hand.

Also known as AutoCAD, MicroStation, MDL, CAD

Left to right is time. Each row is one of the 3 disciplines this one worked alongside, ordered so kindred disciplines sit next to each other rather than alphabetically — a landscape only means anything if neighboring rows belong together. Height is the work running in that domain in that year, weighted by what failure would have cost — life-safety ×3, a statutory obligation ×2.2, the estate itself ×1.5, an evaluation ×1. Every project declares which of those it was, so each ridge traces to an entry you can open and disagree with. Only the work that used this technology is counted, so what shows here is the company it kept rather than the record around it. Height and color are on the record-wide scale rather than this page’s own, so a modest estate draws a modest landscape and any two of these pages can be read against each other.

Drafting and design in AutoCAD from Release 12 and in MicroStation, certified in both by 1995.

The first substantial application was digitizing historical railroad property maps dating back to the 1800s for CSX RPI, including MDL application development against the MicroStation platform — the first work in a career that has kept returning to the problem of putting physical infrastructure into a data model.

It came back years later in an unexpected place: the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office countywide wireless survey predated the propagation software that does it for you, so the coverage heat maps were built in AutoCAD’s survey tools from measured readings taken driving the county.

And it never really left. The outside plant drawings, the data center rack elevations and the courthouse closet layouts are all the same discipline.

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