2021 - Bentley Systems, Inc.

authoring the first ever "Advanced InRoads" Course authoring the GEOPAK port of "Site Modeler" developing the initial OpenRoads Technology courses (and many subsequent) training OpenRoads on site (in Vancouver) a weeks after we introduced the training...

Drainage Engineering

"day job" to provide consulting services, it's for drainage "hot projects" or to consult with leadership teams to plan OpenRoads Drainage Implementations. I think I defensively answered "I'm roadway first" (because Bentley Civil is roadway first), but...

Transforming the Industry

I have had my influence. The primary reason I joined Bentley Systems was to extend the reach of my previous efforts. OpenRoads Technology first true revolution I saw, supplanting three decades of continuous evolution. At Bentley I extended our InRoads...

The Surprise Barrier to OpenRoads Drainage Acceptance

seriously. He doesn't trust the numbers. So, as soon as he's gone we're going to move forward with it." When I heard that OpenRoads was going to pretty much take the Hydraulic engine directly from Haestad - universally trusted - I thought "Well, that...

OpenRoads

OpenRoads Drainage

OpenRoads

The BEST Practice for OpenRoads Success

alone. Use the resources you have available, all of them. (For a video read-through of this page: The #1 Best Practice for OpenRoads Success ) (As far as I know) If you have a license for any Bentley Civil software package, you have access to Bentley's...

Professional Experience

Parsons Corporation as a Supervising Drainage Engineer. I specialize in working on large drainage projects using Bentley's OpenRoads Drainage platform. I help teams improve their performance through training, Workspace Setup and finding best practices...

2022 - Parsons

Engineer, but my primary responsibility is supporting projects using Bentley Civil software support. The complexity of the OpenRoads Designer platform - in particular, OpenRoads Drainage and Utilities - represents a large risk to project budget and...

2019 - TxDOT

2019 - Training the Hydraulic Leads and Migration Staff on OpenRoads Drainage (StormCAD, CivilStorm) - Austin TX. 2016 - Many Remote Training Sessions for OpenRoads Technology Adoption

2019 - City of Portland

formats... Ack! At the beginning of my first 3 days there, the Program Manager said "We will NOT be moving to the new OpenRoads platform for at least two years." At the end of my first stay, she announced "We will be moving to the new software as soon...

Site Engineering

I wrote the courses for Site Modeler in InRoads (a port of the more automated tools from GEOPAK). I wrote the first OpenRoads Technology grading courses (including Pad and Parking Lot Grading). There is some interesting Warping Surfaces for Drainage...

San Diego Intro

upper limit of the visualization you could do without spending a LOT of time (a simple recoloring of triangles). Nowadays, OpenRoads provides a photorealistic model - out of the box! With ConceptStation and LumenRT you could have moving traffic and palm...

Highway Engineering

and highway, no drainage) Writing Bentley's first Advanced InRoads training manual Writing Bentley's first and subsequent OpenRoads Technology training for Roadway and Site (until I moved to focus on OpenRoads Drainage)

Government Experience

1 (Eureka) and Headquarters (Sacramento). {slider title="Virginia DOT" alias="vdot"} Virginia DOT was an early adopter of OpenRoads Drainage ("Subsurface Utilities"). As one of Bentley's top experts and co-creator of training material, I worked with...

SD return

largely the same role: helping the City roll out and get happy with Bentley's latest version of their Civil software: the OpenRoads Designer platform. It's revolutionary, it's fun to design with, but it's signficantly more complicated. I am here to...

2018 - Virginia DOT

2016-2018 Training the Hydraulic Leads and Migration Staff on OpenRoads Drainage (StormCAD, CivilStorm) Multiple in-person training sessions for Subsurface Utility Engineers and Drainage Engineers. Bundled the existing curriculum and authored...

2018 - Alabama DOT

Training the Hydraulic Leads and Migration Staff on OpenRoads Drainage (StormCAD, CivilStorm). Note: Phil Bazinet, Chief Hydraulic Engineer is a HUGE Crimson Tide Fan. Just sayin'.

About this web

This website is something of a personal memoir for me. The "help-only" site is CivilHelp.com My "business" (OpenRoads Support Services) site is CivilXLr8.com This web, like many of my efforts, has a number of goals: 1. It is to provide a landing page...