AUTO-TROL
Zale Corporation purchased an Auto-trol AD/380 CAD system in 1979. I soon became the Lead Operator. In 1981 I was promoted to Job Captain and given overall responsibility for managing the CAD system. My responsibilities included training new personnel, supervising the seven CAD drafters, and programming software.

In 1982 Intergraph had just introduced a new turn key product for Architects called the Architectural Innovator. I joined Intergraph at that time as an "Applications Demonstrations Specialist". I spent the next two years demonstrating their CAD systems to Architects in Texas and Colorado.

SIGMA DESIGN
I left Intergraph in 1984 to work for Sigma Design. Sigma was also selling turn key CAD systems but their software was specifically written for Architectural applications. Here I not only demonstrated the software but also provided end user training and support. In 1986 Sigma began to sell it's software through authorized dealers and my roll changed to that of providing training and technical support to dealers as well as demonstrating the software at dealer sites. In 1987 I became a District Marketing Manager and my responsibilities expanded to include locating and starting up new dealers and providing them with sales support. In 1988 I became the National Applications Consultant. This meant that I created custom demonstrations for new products, provided demonstration support at national shows, provided training and support to Regional Application Consultants, and provided technical support and demonstrations at dealer sites.

AUTOCAD
In August 1989 I accepted the position of CAD Systems Manager with the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) in Dallas. I monitored the procurement and administered the instillation of the hardware and software for the Customer Facilities department. This consisted of 40 AutoCAD seats with ASG's Architectural package running on Dell PC's. I wrote custom AutoLISP programs, created the standards and procedures to be used by all our CAD users, taught formal AutoCAD classes to our CAD system operators, and implemented the networked drawing management system AutoManager Workflow.

ARRIS
In August 1993 I returned to work for Sigma Design as the Director of Technical Services in their Texas "ARRISource" office. My major client at this time was Wal-Mart. They had 45 seats of ARRIS running on Hewlett Packard work stations on a large Unix network. I installed the software, trained the operators, and provided continuing maintenance and support.

In October 1994 I began working as an independent CAD consultant. I call my company CAD Directions.

CAD Directions Project Highlights

1994
ARRIS training - Mathes Group
AutoCAD training - Fixture Concepts
ARRIS training - Wal-Mart
Translations of CAD files from one format to another.

1995
ARRIS training - Wal-Mart
Customer service on-site - Wal-Mart
Production of AutoCAD drawings for small retail store chain.
Production of ARRIS drawings, training and support - Mitchell Design Group (Irving, TX)
Evaluation of AutoCAD CAM add-on software programs. Contract with Computer Task Group (CTG), to work on-site for IBM.
Produced documentation for Gensler and Associates/Architects for standards and procedures for working with and translating documents between themselves and Wal-mart
Production of AutoCAD drawings and creation of AutoCAD standards and procedures for AAFES.

1996
Production of ARRIS drawings, training and support - Mitchell Design Group (Irving, TX)
Moved from Fort Worth, Texas to Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Alpha software testing for Sigma Design on their next release of ARRIS v7.0

1997
Production of ARRIS drawings, training and support - Mitchell Design Group(Irving, TX)
Gave the first ARRIS 7.0 demo to the ARRIS dealers at the ARRIS dealers conferance in Dallas.
Beta software testing - ARRIS v7.0
Wrote help files - for Sigma Design to include in ARRIS v7.0
Worked on ARRIS Reference Guide.
Lightscape Training -Mitchell Design Group(Irving, TX)
ARRIS training - dealers on the new features of the software.
Worked on ARRIS Reference Guide - AutoCAD commands
Created ARRIS Demo CD for Sigma Design.

1998
Production of ARRIS drawings, training and support - Mitchell Design Group (Irving, TX)
Created the ARRIS Training CD for Sigma Design
Wrote "ARRIS Architect Studio vs AutoCAD r14" - a white paper for Sigma Design
ARRIS training - Kitchen & Associates (contracted thru Sigma Design ) (Philidelphia ).
ARRIS training - TGA Architects (contracted thru Sigma Design ) (San Fransisco, CA)
ARRIS training - Mediplex Medical Building Corporation (Dallas, TX)
Lightscape Training -The Dykeman Architects (Evert, WA)
Conducted Peer Research for Tactics, a market research firm. Their client was Raindrop Geomagic. I conducted interviews to research user requirements for a new 3D modeling product.

1999
Production of ARRIS drawings, training and support - Mitchell Design Group (Irving, TX)
ARRIS training - Lake/Flato Architects (contracted thru Sigma Design ) (San Antonio, TX)
ARRIS training - The GAP (contracted thru Sigma Design ) (San Fransisco, CA)
ARRIS training - Alexander Homes (contracted thru Sigma Design ) (Rio Verde, AZ )
Creating a 3-D CAD model of the main campus, for Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Email me at: hartr@pcisys.net

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