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Finished cmt_profiles.lsp |
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Sunday, 21 March 2010 18:06 |
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Finished writing and testing a profiles routine for drawing road profiles. It draws the grid, adds finish grade tangents, vertical curves and labels. See Profiles on the AutoLISP menu. MVE moved into it's new SoCal office in Santa Ana on March 8. Cut 14 miles off my commute (one way) but also cut out part of the commute that is always backed up. |
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Saturday, 05 December 2009 00:06 |
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Hired on with Mid Valley Engineers as Survey CAD Technician and started Nov. 16th. The temporary office is in Carson, CA which is next to Long Beach. A long (112miles) commute but the crew is a good one and I'm working for my old boss Wade. |
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 18:42 |
My daughter in Chico sent me a notice of a Geospatial Workforce Training Program being conducted by CSU Chico and the One-Stop (employment) office in Chico, CA. The training course run 16 week, 8 hours a day, five days a week. Combined with 120 hours of paid internship it will result in a GIS Tech certificate. Prerequisites and Qualifications: - To apply you must be on or eligible for unemployment.
- 3 or more years of full‐time workforce experience
- Basic Computer Literacy: experienced user on PCs with Microsoft Windows Operating System.
- Medium to strong Microsoft Office skills (Word and Excel)
- Ability to work at a computer for long periods of time
- Solution‐oriented and enjoy solving problems
It’s a fascinating subject and since I’m already taking a GIS course at the local community college. I applied and found out yesterday (10/13) that I’ve been accepted. The program starts Oct 27 and runs thru Feb 18. |
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California Engineering Web Sites |
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009 00:00 |
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I've kept track of all the Engineering and Surveying web sites in an Excel spreadsheet. On a separate sheet I've rated those sites. Here is my report card Ratings.pdf The majority of them are very professional and easy to use. Some are outstanding and just a few are really bad. The two that I like the best are Frayji Design Group, for their unique site, and Cunningham Engineering for their use of the word "cool" to describe their projects. I used Firefox to view all the sites and only found one that was unreadable. It looked fine in Internet Explorer but not so good in Safari and terrible in Firefox. When I notified them of the problem they replied, suggesting I "fix the settings in Firefox". Rookies. |
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Thursday, 13 August 2009 00:00 |
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I was working part-time at Nolte Associates, but that ended 8/13/09. Many of us had be reclassified from salaried to hourly months ago. For several months I went from zero hours per week to 30+ hours per week. They eventually ran out of work and laid me off. I've enrolled in College of the Desert, in Palm Desert and I'm taking an Intro to GIS class, which includes on-line lessons at ESRI. It's been several years since my last ArcView training and I haven't been able to put it to use in my recent job positions. I'm also taking an MS Access database class. In my on-line search for employment I have visited (as of 8/9/09) 97 engineer's web sites. My search area ranges from Redding, CA to Tucson, AZ. The degree of sophistication varies from one-page html to whiz-bang Flash opening screens and displays. Most of them have a career or employment link that is easy to find. Others sites either make you search the web-site for it or there just isn't an employment page. The low-end sites look like their jr. high kid did it with awful color schemes and poor layout. One had not be updated since 2006. Some of the cool ones are really cool. I still find some with my pet peeve - you have to click on something to enter the site. When I follow a link to a site, I should be in the site, why the fancy click to enter bs? I would estimate that over 90% of the sites list no job openings. Exceptions are the larger firms that have offices across the U.S. and Canada. Many will accept a resume even if they do not have any current openings, and I have taken advantage of this. Anyone that is hiring must have a ton of applications/resumes to sift through. I'm not real surprised that I do not receive any responses to emailed resumes, so I to appreciate the few that have acknowledged my submittals. |
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