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...

Spring Creek Square - 1991

Dieter Engineering Services Spring Creek Square - Site and Drainage Engineering Orange Park, FL (outside Jacksonville) Google Maps 1990 - 1991 Thirty Acres. Two major anchors at a time. Many, many revisions. Site Layout. Drainage, Utilities. Previously...

Site Engineering

Site

San Diego Intro

for Supporting the City of San Diego For a video of me talking through this page: https://youtu.be/BqSWr8K3jyI Pre-City #1 Site and Drainage Engineering. AutoDesk & DCA Civil Engineering Software. Leitz Sokkia SDR2. 1989-1992. First "Solo" Project My...

A Visual History

First "Solo" Project My first job out of school was for a 3-person site engineering company, Dieter Engineering Services. My first day on the job I asked Barry, "who does our Surveying?" "We do." Broad responsibility, long hours, good equipment and...

Expertise and Communication

Your Subject Matter Expertise Your Communication Skills" My Subject Matter Expertise includes: Broad Engineering Experience (Site, Drainage, Highway) A Focus (compulsion) on Process derived from Responsibility for Results (entrepreneurialism &...

Drainage Engineering

Civil is roadway first), but upon reflection I'm not sure that holds up to scrutiny. In the three-way split between Roadway, Site, and Drainage Engineering, Drainage does, in fact, get the edge. I may be the same sized Big Fish, but the Pond of Drainage...

1992 - Ivey, Harris, and Walls

Ivey Harris and Walls, Inc. Site Engineering, Land Planning and Landscape Services Orlando, Florida July 1991 - Feb 1992 "Why are you looking for a job?" "My boss told me he was looking for a job." "Is he any good?" "He's very good." This was deep into...

2021 - Bentley Systems, Inc.

a dream job! Event highlights included: 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...

Site Engineering

I started over thirty years ago in Site and Drainage Engineering. I've never strayed far from it, in spite of a lot of highway design. At Bentley, I provided training on the old manual InRoads grading methodolgoy (Generate Longitudinal Feature,...

Website and Content Management Systems

Joomla! Content Management Systems Starting from the joomla standard install. Version 3.8 and forward. Example sites: This site CivilHelp.com - this was my "spare time" collection of "hidden gems" and a training sandbox. I've mostly ignored it since I...

Transforming the Industry

the first Advanced InRoads multi-day course. I wrote the initial OpenRoads Technology training courses, consulted on-site its early days, and helped drive its rollout and the rollout of the Hydraulics and Utilties tools (SUDA, then SU, now "Drainage and...

Articles - Creating New

Ability to Create New Articles is based on your web login permissions. If set up for the "front end" (the main user-facing site (vs. the administrator back end), you will generally see a "Create Article" item in the User Menu (not the overall...

Article Editing Requirements

To Edit an Article: You need to be registered on the site (have a login) Your web account needs to have proper permissions assigned (setup by administrator). The article needs to be editable by you (setup by administrator). You will need to log in to...

SD return

it. If you have a complaint, I want to hear it. Any complaint. Some we can fix, some we cannot. But, please, a long-term onsite expert resource is a really powerful opportunity. This is a key takeaway: I want to help you, but first I must hear you. And...

The Fierce Urgency of Now

or rare? Focus Forward: my Core Now: Core Time Here's where I'm most valuable (my Core): Bentley Civil Software: Road, Site, and Drainage. Workspace and Configuration. Systemic Uplift. Integration and Extension (Digital Twins, Automation, Adjacent...

Interchange: I-4/Conroy

I had to design it this way? Why? Because my office on the sixth floor was to the north and my desk and computer faced the site. I had a hard time having to reconcile the screen with a 180 spin to reality. So I rotated all my design files so that the...

Highway Engineering

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)

Project Delivery: Agile and Trustworthy

I like to share as broadly as I can (respecting the comfort levels of the stakeholders). I've been authoring websites since 2000 to sell services and manage projects. It's my preferred medium for sharing information broadly. I also implement via the...