I am pleased to announce that I am working at TYLin as Rail and Transit Sector BIM and Digital Delivery Manager. I am excited to be able to drive the Digital Integration Revolution forward. Everybody up!

We are Products of Our Past

(But we shouldn't use products from the past.

Really. The industry has passed them by. Don't let the industry pass you by.)

I started decades ago as an engineer. Site, Drainage, Highways. Surveys.

At Intergraph Corp., I got into technology adoption and systems analysis. Once you get that in your blood....

You become trained to see opportunity, and opportunity feels like obligation.

Once you get a taste of transformation at scale, you can never rest.

Thirty years ago, I was recruited by San Diego Data Processing Corporation to lead a number of programs - software integration, software migration, training development... (In today's vernacular, the company would likely be rebranded as San Diego Digital Advisory Corporation ("SanDDAC," anyone?)). After five years, it was time to scale up, but SDDPC was limited to the City of San Diego.

Five years of nationwide "Digital Advisory" spanning from leading twelve InRoads Road or Drainage designers at a time from training material I authored to leading technical migration at DOT-levels...

A return to local (road and drainage) design embedded at Caltrans, before about fourteen years of a different flavor of Digital Advice: with the vendor, Bentley. Primarily InRoads/OpenRoads training development, but always consulting.

As a consultant, few things matter more than credibility. Industry had changed quite a bit while I was away from the production trenches. A couple years in the new live-collaboration multi-discipline megaproject trenches... Street work for street cred.

Decades of engineering, systems analysis, communication development, and entrepreneurialism.

And now our industry is transforming again.

Digital Integration - and a standardization of the business practices required (ISO-19650: if want to see the future, take a look at this standard).

It's as exciting a time in the industry as I've seen.

Once you start to analyze everything looking for systematic opportunity, including

better quality
tighter integration
internal and external growth, and
finding new markets,

you can’t go back. You simply cannot ignore the Macro – the bigger multipliers. Especially where you’ve proven fixes in the past. The Bigs - Arguments for Fixing

My most Urgent Digital Advice

Within your organization, within your core operations, and towards new opportunities, here's what your biggest Success Multiplier is: your Expertise Sharing Systems, specifically, and your Platform Mastery in general.

Expertise is best: Well-Shared

Your organization's greatest asset is its people - specifically, their expertise. If you are not investing in the growth of your shared expertise, you are missing out on your greatest multiplier. Every important specialization's experts should be sharing their talent with each other and with all the contributors in that specialty.

(if 11-minutes is too long, then you can skip straight to the 90-second lede Specialty Collaboration Forums build Systemic Synergy (and they're easy)*)

Many organizations just default to Microsoft Teams for collaboration (very limited) or SharePoint (which few engineers know how to use well).

Internal discussion boards/forums like Bentley Communities or Reddit are easily and inexpensively implementable and can provide the foundation for a culture of synergy and uplift - a culture of shared contribution and continuous improvement. Imagine if the best ideas of your brightest minds were informing the decisions of all your staff.

Why leave this greatest opportunity to chance?

Growth Opportunities in Infrastructure Infrastructure

The growth in the infrastructure industry - in your enterprise, the new work you win – lies in:

Reality Integration
Construction Engineering & Inspection
BIM
- Digital Delivery
- Digital Project Integration.

I can bring 35+ years of technology adoption to your future.

I can help you improve your present as well.

Drive the Revolution - Infrastructure Digital Integration (BIM and Digital Delivery Adoption)

Reality Modeling, Construction Engineering, Digital Integration are Fire!

Uplift: Comprehensively Designed, Optimally Shared

Training is best: Consumable (Lean, Findable, Updateable)

As our software platforms become increasingly fat and margins remain unyieldingly thin, the wiggle room lies in making training lean.

For the consumers: Just Enough. Just In Time. At Their Fingertips (easily findable).

For the creators/sharers/training managers: Findable, updateable (to extend shelf life and reach).

Here are some examples that are more easily updateable than a PDF and far more consumable than an unindexed one-hour meeting recording (stored in a File Pile).

Free Training Content: Item Types and View Display Rules

Your Digital Tomorrow Starts Today!

Item Types and View Display Rules are the technologies that enable Digital Delivery, permitting and taming BIG DATA. You can - you must - start using them right now. It's easy. It's profitable.

Free Training Content: Ponds in ORD

CivilHelp.com > Pond Design in ORD

Very lean training on how to Design Ponds in ORD: I wrote this because there was a gap - an important, very complex workflow with no available training (Bentley used to have a couple of classes that spanned this subject, but they "went away").

Pond Grading (Templates for Pond 3D Modeling)

some constrained-area solutions for 3D pond grading (complements Bentley's Basin Civil Cell which works upward and outward).

"Better Every Day" is NOT Good Enough

You gotta be better, FASTER than your competition.

My OCD: I am a "Bigs" Fixer

(90 seconds)

Prepare for the Future

We're at an exciting time in the industry - the biggest revolution since dropping the pencils: Digital Delivery at the DOT level. Integratability as a requirement. Here's the secret: the technology that makes integration possible, Item Types (or Property Sets in the Autodesk ecosystem), can improve your quality and save you money right now. As in, the project you're currently working on now. Item Types and View Display Rules are the technologies that unleash - and tame! - the power of The Big Data Age we're in. Lead now or be left behind.

For BIM-ready Drainage and Utilities you have two platforms: OpenRoads Drainage and InfoDrainage. These are really heavy platforms = high risks in implementation. You WILL want an implementation plan to adopt these beasts. Get help; "winging it" is ruinous.

Stay Lean - But Level Up

Our modern design and delivery platforms are really fat. Training is fat. Projects are lean. How do we resolve this?

First of all, make use of Learning.Bentley.com. It's the standard. It's modular, AND you are likely already paying for it.

Second: find or build lean alternatives or gap-fillers (there are a lot of gaps).

Third: effectively share your customs or "leans" with your full user base.

I can help with all three of these.

Be Better Faster

Better * Faster = Excelerate = XLr8!