Daniel Hughes

Current

BIM Manager | Revit-BIM Consultant at Excel Engineering
Revit-BIM Consultant | Trainer | Implementation Expert at Revit-BIM Consultant Seeking Midwest-National Contract | Full-Time Employment

Past

Senior Building Solutions Consultant at IMAGINiT Technologies
BIM-Revit | Architectural Software Trainer-Consultant at Taylor Technologies
Founder | Owner | Vice President at CADgrafx inc

Architectural CAD Technician at Potter Lawson Architects
JobCaptain at Marshall Erdman & Associates
Architectural Technician at Flad & Associates-Madison

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Education

Madison Area Technical College
Lakeside Lutheran High School

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Connections

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Industry

Architecture & Planning

Daniel Hughes’s Summary

Educational Speaker | Author | Trainer | Revit-BIM Consultant:
My printed works and live professional educational presentations-classes have served the thousands of members of AIA National, AIA Wisconsin, AIA Chicago, CSI Chicago, AIA Young Architects Forum-Chicago, Association of Licensed Architects (ALA), AIA Iowa, AIA-Iowa-Small Project Practitioners, AIA Minnesota, Associated General Contractors (AGC) and Construction Management Association of America (CMAA).

I author the IMAGINiT Architectural Solutions Blog (08/2005) and my RevitJobCaptain.com Blog (10/2005). I share more than 30 years of my client experiences and expertise in the building design industry. Combined, more than 12,000 unique visitors/month visited these blogs in 2008.

I served 12years [19 Semesters] as a part-time, certified 2D/3D AutoCAD & Architectural Desktop instructor for the Wisconsin Technical College System. [MATC-Madison, Moraine Park Technical] using the Process Education techniques [http://pcrest.com/] for teaching my classes.

Corporate Owner | Entrepreneur: I founded, owned and managed a corporation, CADgrafx, inc. for 15 years. Served clients in 24 states/5 countries and 22 Fortune 200 companies within this time period.

Experience/expertise with 2-dimensional CAD (mainframe/PC) that dates back to 1984 using Auto-trol and AutoCAD version 1.x.

Experience | expertise with 3-dimensional PC CAD | 3D surface-solid modeling that dates back to 1985 as a systems evaluator and author for the AIA National Technology Review Team.

Design | Production | PM | Marketing: I was employed by Wisconsin design firms for 8 years; production drawings, project management, construction management, CAD management, 3D modeling specific to design and marketing of our professional services. We served hospital, financial, educational and R&D laboratory clients.

Daniel Hughes’s Specialties:

Process Education for Adult Education,
Computer network engineering,
Implementing the Building Information Modeling (BIM) design process,
Project Manager for building design projects (educational, medical, financal, hospitality)
Business ownership & management,
Business financial management/accounting,
Assessment of student learning,
Curriculum development

Daniel Hughes’s Experience

BIM Manager | Revit-BIM Consultant

Excel Engineering

(Privately Held; Civil Engineering industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)
Revit-BIM Consultant | Trainer | Implementation Expert

Revit-BIM Consultant Seeking Midwest-National Contract | Full-Time Employment

(Architecture & Planning industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)
Senior Building Solutions Consultant

IMAGINiT Technologies

(Privately Held; Architecture & Planning industry)

April 2006 — June 2009 (3 years 3 months)

My thirty years of market experience provides our clients with a diverse level of credible expertise as they transition-implement the BIM design process.

My focus is client training for Revit | BIM software implementation, network engineering, Revit implementation project management, pre-sales process reviews, sales & technical support that is project/company specific.

This includes defining project scope and time lines, marketing & educational presentations focused towards the stakeholders in the building design market.
BIM-Revit | Architectural Software Trainer-Consultant

Taylor Technologies

(Architecture & Planning industry)

2001 — 2006 (5 years )

I volunteered to create and provide Revit implementation services for our Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis design firms.

Working with our Marketing Department, I created more than 40 face-to-face Revit workshops, client information web-based workshops and hands-on TestDrive events over a 3 year period.

I wrote and maintained our "Revit Playbook" for teaching clients how to successfully implement and transition Revit into their design firms. I would regularly travel with our Account Managers to provide a technical and business overview for transitioning to Revit.

When Autodesk acquired Revit, I was one of two Revit instructors-consultants in our company that served a 5 state region in the Midwest.

As a result of this team approach, we became the largest Autodesk Revit Reseller-Consultant serving the Greater Chicago Metro Area.
Founder | Owner | Vice President

CADgrafx inc

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1987 — 2002 (15 years )

Corporate Owner | Entrepreneur:

I founded, owned and managed a corporation, CADgrafx, inc. for 15 years. It was an Authorized Autodesk Dealership providing Autodesk architectural software products, training and consulting services to architects, engineers and building owners.

Our networking-communications division served a client base in 24 states, 5 countries and 22 Fortune 200 clients.

My prime responsibilities included sales, technical implementation, marketing, training, programming & network engineering services dedicated to architects, engineers, home builders and facility engineering.
Architectural CAD Technician

Potter Lawson Architects

(Architecture & Planning industry)

1985 — 1987 (2 years )
JobCaptain

Marshall Erdman & Associates

(Public Company; Architecture & Planning industry)

1984 — 1985 (1 year )
Architectural Technician

Flad & Associates-Madison

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

1979 — 1984 (5 years )

Daniel Hughes’s Education

Madison Area Technical College

Associates , Architectural Technology , 1977 — 1979
Lakeside Lutheran High School

HS Diploma , 1973 — 1977

Additional Information

Daniel Hughes’s Interests:

photography, landscaping, computer animation, residential design, blogging, computer modeling of buildings (BIM), architecture, website design, optimizing website design for search engine optimization (SEO),marketing, process education-training for adults