AJ Bridwell

BIG BIM Data Expert/Strategist @ Invicara

About

BIM Data Expert/Strategist @ Invicara | Information Management Practitioner BIM Data Expert/Strategist @ Invicara | Project Planning and Coordination Transforming BIM data into actionable intelligence for owners @ Invicara With more than three decades of experience in the 3D world of design and construction, I am a certified Information Management Practitioner and a BIM data expert and strategist at Invicara, a technology development company that empowers building owners and operators to leverage their data for better decisions and outcomes. At Invicara, I work with a global team of professionals to deliver innovative solutions and processes that transform BIM data into actionable intelligence for our clients, across various project delivery methods and types. I use my skills in project planning and coordination to ensure the technical requirements and operational needs of our projects are met, and I am passionate about helping owners realize the full potential of BIM data for their handover and faster spin-up of their technical operations services.

Country

United States

City

Talbotton

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

BIM, Revit, AutoCAD, Construction, Integrated Project Delivery, 3D, Microstation, Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, CAD, HVAC, Microsoft Office, Project Coordination, Facilities Management, SketchUp, Project Planning, Navisworks, LEED, Design Research

Experience

BIG BIM Data Expert/Strategist

Invicara

2015-4 - Present · 11 yrs 6 mos

Saudi Arabia

Working to place Invicara's game-changing solutions and methodical processes into projects all over the world.

Director of Program Managers

Invicara

2013-7 - 2015-4 · 1 yr 10 mos

Greater Atlanta Area & Singapore

As the Director of Program Management for Invicara I managed a team of program managers to develop the concepts, workflows and specifications for Invicara's BIM products. Using my 30+ years of design and construction experience we built a cloud solution to help propel the potential of BIM forward by focusing on the Information in BIM and collaboration.

Director of Bentley Systems Practices

ENGworks Global

2010-10 - 2013-6 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for all Bentley Systems Army Corps Of Engineers (ACOE) projects, coordination, design and pre-construction.

Director of BIM to FM Technologies

ENGworks Global

2010-10 - 2013-6 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Argentina

Director of ENGworks software development division dedicated to developing Technologies to service the Facility Management arena such as YouBIM.

Bentley BIM Project Manager for Army Corps of Engineers work

SMMA

2010-1 - 2010-10 · 10 mos

Greater Boston Area

Worked at SMMA on a contract basis to help them with several large Army Corps of Engineers job using Bentley BIM Suite of solutions. Scoped and built Project BIM Execution Plan to meet or exceed the ACOE PXP delivery process. The BIM deliverable's where built to go directly into the ACOE Facility Operations software's.

South Eastern Account Manager

Greenleaf 3D

2009-7 - 2010-1 · 7 mos

Consulted on multiple software migrations and platform changes for medium and large scale companies, focusing on leveraging BIM for design and construction.

Consultant

Satellier

2009-6 - 2009-10 · 5 mos

India

Satellier is the world leader in offshore workshare solutions with talent using Revit, Bentley, ArchiCAD and almost all other formats of design software. Satellier can handle off shoring of live project design or Pre-Construction BIM Models for General Contractors

Consultant

CH2M

2008-1 - 2009-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Chile

Worked on a Confidential project utlizing Bently PDS and AutoCAD MEP 2008.

Consultant

Lindsay, Pope, Brayfield & Assoc. Inc.

2007-6 - 2008-1 · 8 mos

Lindsay, Pope, Brayfield & Associates hired me to manage a procedural and new software implementation bringing their design software platform from Architectural Desktop 2004 to Architectural Desktop 2006 and AutoCAD Architecture 2008. After a complete rewrite of an arcane CAD standards manual and developing some quick image driven procedure documents, we implemented the new software with some customization.

New Market Development

GRAITEC North America

2005 - 2008 · 3 yrs

My job at Applied Software was to develop new opportunities to provides software and support solutions to existing and prospective clients for Applied Software an Autodesk Reseller. By using my extensive technical background “Being in the trenches” I was able to deliver a more comprehensive solution to customer companies and not leave any technical road blocks for my contacts.

CAD Administrator and Special Projects CAD Director

Lockwood Greene

1998 - 2002 · 4 yrs

United States

Worked out of the Atlanta office and developed tons of lisp and Visual Basic routines to help the end users of AutoCAD R14 +. Also executed in office training for personal to migrate from older design platforms to newer platforms.

Cad Manager

Facility Design Group

1994 - 1999 · 5 yrs

During my time at Facility Group we migrated through 3 different versions of AutoCAD starting with DOS R12 then to R 13 and finally to R14. My group was solely responsible for the creation of all cad standards manuals, procedural documents and tons of customized programming for each new version. We also executed all in house training for new hires and new releases