"I have been teaching AutoCAD for almost thirty years. I started teaching at Illinois Technical College where I was the head of the Drafting Department. I setup and started teaching Revit at Moraine Valley Community College in 2003 and went on to develop a similar Revit program for Triton College. In 2007, I setup a credit course program at Oakton Community College in Revit and also taught AutoCAD courses. I continue to teach at a local community college to this date and I am in the process of developing a BIM-Revit certificate and associate degree program this summer to be implemented into their Engineering-CAD department program in Spring of 2014.

I have also provided training services for local Autodesk resellers and Autodesk Inc. sales staff.

My methods for training students on using Revit or AutoCAD are to use a structured tutorial courseware (i.e. Ascent Courseware) and supplement the courseware tutorials with hands on tutorials I have developed. All lessons are hands-on and I offer additional support by phone and live-webcasts between sessions.

I am a licensed architect in Illinois.

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