John Evans

Current

Contributing Author at Tekni Consulting
Technical Author at Civil to Inventor
Autodesk Certified Professional at Gustin, Cothern, and Tucker, Inc.

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Past

Civil Engineering Tech and Programmer at Emerald Coast Associates, Inc.
NCOIC Mid Shift at USAF Test Wing FMS

Education

USAF

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John Evans’s Summary

John Evans is an Autodesk® Certified AutoCAD Civil 3D® and Inventor® Professional at Gustin, Cothern, and Tucker, Inc. He has been involved in the Civil Design industry for 17 years, and the Aerospace Design industry since childhood. John provides training, troubleshooting, customization and occasional .NET programming for team members. Since his tour in the USAF, John’s skills have developed to include Fabrication, CAD/CAM/CNC Design and operation, Process and Resource Management, and Civil Design. He writes a training and troubleshooting BLOG titled “From Civil to Inventor” where he assists the design community with new approaches to using the tools supplied in Inventor and Civil 3D. He is currently working with the Tekni Consulting team to produce the "Creative Design With Autodesk Inventor" Web based training.
John Speaks English and Japanese, and continues to improve his Japanese Language and Culture skills.

John Evans’s Specialties:

Autodesk Inventor Model Management
AutoCAD Civil 3D technical support
MasterCAM and InventorCAM familiarity
Troubleshooting
Aerospace Structural repair and fabrication
Aerospace fasteners
Advanced Composites Expert
Tubing Fabrication Expert
CAD/CAM/CNC
C#,.NET familiarity
Japanese Language familiarity

John Evans’s Experience

Contributing Author

Tekni Consulting

(Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

I contribute detailed Inventor training materials for the Online Web training course "Creative Design With Autodesk Inventor 2010"
Technical Author

Civil to Inventor

(Design industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

John Evans writes and produces vBook technical references for Autodesk Inventor, the last of which was published in April, 2009
Autodesk Certified Professional

Gustin, Cothern, and Tucker, Inc.

(Civil Engineering industry)

January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)

Civil 3D Technical troubleshooting, Beating the bugs out of a new product, Construction data management, and far too often 'Liability Sensitive Projects'.
Civil Engineering Tech and Programmer

Emerald Coast Associates, Inc.

(Civil Engineering industry)

January 1992 — January 2002 (10 years 1 month)

Started in the field, worked my way through Construction layout, then into the office for general drafting, FDOT R/W Mapping, Subdivision layout, and ultimately Residential and Commercial Civil Design.
Additional responsibilities included assistant IT management on Novell and Windows Networks.
NCOIC Mid Shift

USAF Test Wing FMS

(Military industry)

April 1987 — October 1991 (4 years 7 months)

Airframe Fabrication, NCO in charge of Mid Shift
CNC Turret Punch Programming and Operation
Tubing and Composites Expert