I tell my 16-year old, "In your career, you have two primary things:
- 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 & three-person 1st Job)
- Bad Process costs time, money, errors, reputation
- It's not fun
- Bad Process costs time, money, errors, reputation
- wasting time kills me
- derived from Responsibility for Results (entrepreneurialism & three-person 1st Job)
- The Ability to improve processes
- The inclination to extrapolate (addtional audiences, additional opportunities)
- A compulsion to leverage and synergize
- "How does this current effort fit into a greater scheme?"
- "How can we extend the useability of this "one-off" to be a permanent wide benefit?"
My Communication Skills include:
- I'm a pretty good technology evangelist (high energy/enthusiasm), backed by experience.
- Educational Experience beyond the traditional "5-day in-person class" model
- Transformed how Bentley delivers training (now: Modular OnDemand)
- Multiple platform experience for at-scale and scaleable communication
Examples:
- Civil Help > Grading Surfaces for Drainage
- Civil Help > DIY Reality Modeling
- Learn.Bentley.com > Navigating the Interface
- Automating a Typing-intensive Drainage "Workflow"
- JeffMartinPE.com - organized professional present and past
- CivilXLr8.com - the company was a response to a need/opportunity, the site was the medium to communicate it nationally (old technology, though)
- Bentley User Success Onboarding Community; also have an extensive series of Microsoft Teams Teams (internal)
- GoOutLookUp.com - hobby site, started to support STEM Grant programs
- Troop4LaJolla.com - example of a complex, firewalled, multi-user website