topic Re: Leaving my current position in Project data & BIM

Leaving my current position

TomWaltz — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:25:12 GMT

Hey everyone

A lot of you know me as the CAD Manager for Kitchen & Associates, a 50-person architectural firm just outside Philadelphia. I had the distinct honor of transitioning 25 people at that firm from Arris on Unix to Archicad on Mac. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my career. The end result, though, was working in a new and exciting world of BIM, and worth all of it.

Now the time has come for me to leave K&A.

I won't be leaving Archicad, though. I'll be moving to an even bigger challenge: I've accepted a position as BIM Operations Manager at a much larger firm, one of the largest Archicad-using firms out there with 400+ employees and about 200 seats of Archicad.

A couple of their people have posted here on the forums (like Rob "Pivoarch" Pivovarnick). From the level of questions, you could tell that this firm knew what it was doing in Archicad. Seeing it in person, they were even more impressive than I imagined.

I'm hoping to still be involved here on the forums. It's where I got help on my early days of Archicad (early 2003) and I want to keep giving back.

(and by the way, I'll be looking for good Archicad users, if anyone in Central Jersey is interested....)

-Tom

Re: Leaving K&A

Pete — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:15:17 GMT

That's awesome Tom, congrats and best of luck!

Re: Leaving K&A

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:46:02 GMT

Hello Tom,
You wrote "I'm hoping to still be involved here on the forums."
I am fervently hoping you will still be involved with this forum.
You do good here !!
Congratulations on you new position and good luck.
Peter Devlin

Re: Leaving my current position

Rakela Raul — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:28:53 GMT

congrats Tom

Re: Leaving my current position

Stress Co_ — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:44:45 GMT

Tom:
Thanks for the help.
Hope to keep hearing from you.

Best of luck.
Marc

Re: Leaving my current position

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:53:40 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
(and by the way, I'll be looking for good Archicad users, if anyone in Central Jersey is interested....)

Actually, we are looking for any good ArchiCAD users pretty much everywhere, Princeton, Atlanta, NYC, DC, San Fran, London, and possibly Dubia.

Re: Leaving my current position

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:56:58 GMT

Tom Thanks,
And hope we will have the address to be in touch with you.
You are Good.
Joseph

Re: Leaving my current position

TomWaltz — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:31:17 GMT

PivoArch wrote:
TomWaltz wrote:
(and by the way, I'll be looking for good Archicad users, if anyone in Central Jersey is interested....)
Actually, we are looking for any good ArchiCAD users pretty much everywhere, Princeton, Atlanta, NYC, DC, San Fran, London, and possibly Dubia.

Yeah, you're right. I keep forgetting that there are so many different offices!

Re: Leaving my current position

Thomas Holm — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:33:34 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
Hey everyone

Congrats, Tom! Sorry I'm far away from Jersey!

Re: Leaving my current position

Eduardo Rolon — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:07:16 GMT

Congrats.

Re: Leaving my current position

Erika Epstein — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:49:56 GMT

Congratulations Tom! Well Done.

Like others, I hope you will still keep participating in the forum. Your insight and experience has been a boon to all of us.

Erika

Re: Leaving my current position

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:33:00 GMT

I too appreciate your help! Its been great having you as a virtual support system in a city where there isn't much support and BIM is just begining to find its proper place. It doesn't seem as though you need much luck considering your skill set! Nonetheless, it never hurts so best of luck!

Re: Leaving my current position

Djordje — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:08:07 GMT

PivoArch wrote:
Actually, we are looking for any good ArchiCAD users pretty much everywhere, Princeton, Atlanta, NYC, DC, San Fran, London, and possibly Dubia.

You of course mean Dubai? Let me know ...

Re: Leaving my current position

Chazz — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:23:29 GMT

I think he means Dubya. Here in the US we're all living there but I'm counting down the days until we can move someplace better.

Re: Leaving my current position

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:44:34 GMT

I do mean Dubai...so feel free to contact me if you are interested, Architects or Just production.

Re: Leaving my current position

Jefferson — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:43:57 GMT

Good Luck to you Tom!

Chazz, thanks for the levity! Sometimes you're so screwed all you can do is laugh...........for 7+ years it's felt like that! Removing this blight will be more than welcome 'round the world.

Re: Leaving my current position

Djordje — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:09:07 GMT

Chazz wrote:
I think he means Dubya. Here in the US we're all living there but I'm counting down the days until we can move someplace better.

Around here, the word is that the name really is DoBuy 😉

Re: Leaving my current position

Jefferson — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:17:57 GMT

No point in printing what we call him 'round here..........you censor guys and all

candidat

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:27:42 GMT

Hi everybody,

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Right now i'm looking to relocate in Dubai, SanFrancisco, LA or NYC, all at the same time could be an option!
I do not have a work VISA for US yet.
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Re: Leaving my current position

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:18:14 GMT

Congratulations, Tom!

I do hope this new job will let you have enough time to share it with us in the forum! I would really gonna miss your help and critiques!

Good luck!

PivoArch, Bulgaria is too far, isn't it? 😉