Rhandy Ignacio, Design Manager (CAD/BIM)

Rhandy Ignacio

Design Manager (CAD/BIM)

Parsons International

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
Experience
32 years, 11 months

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Total years of experience :32 years, 11 months

Design Manager (CAD/BIM) at Parsons International
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since October 2015

Provide Design support to project owners and clients by delivering Infrastructure design across a range of projects.
Principally based in Dubai Design Center. Responsible for all aspects of planning, distribution and programming of works for Design services and include resource planning, key deliverables, financial monitoring and forward resource planning. It involves project discussions with Project team and Design Managers/Project Managers/Project Directors ensuring the required resources are in place to deliver the project on time and within the allocated budget.

To detail the few tasks:
Oversees the execution and coordination of all Infrastructure Design for all CAD/BIM works in Dubai offices and coordinates works in other offices in the Region in a professional, cost effective and timely manner in compliance with company's and client's quality policies..
Understanding of Client objectives, programmes and requirement; to ensure their programme and project requirements are properly manage, interpreted and actions, assist, guide and provides an advice if required and delivered.
Prepare and develop a detailed plans and programme for the various phases (Concept, Preliminary, Detailed, Tender and Construction) of each Project in conjunction with the Design and Project Manager. Ensures the coordination of Design works with other disciplines and other offices in the region.
Forecast resource requirement and planning schedule in liaison with team leaders, also develop a combined resource plan showing milestones, deliverables and resources, including detailing of available over and under-utilised resources.
Contributor and maintain Design QA Systems within the office
Responsible and introduced creative solutions and automations that would reduce time, resources and cost for executing the work.
Utilised experienced and familiarity with the Local Authorities Requirements and Regulations.
Liaise with Project Director/Manager any concerns or serious deviations from any programme to allow an action plan to be formulated and put into place to mitigate non delivery of the project on time.
Directly manage, Lead, and train the team of multi-disciplined, multi-cultural CAD Engineers, Designers and Technicians. Ensures that staff complies with the prescribed System and guidelines and to continually look for improvements to the system.
Identify the needs and recruit resources.

Few Major Projects currently involved with:
Senior CAD Design Manager. Bureau Expo Dubai 2020 Corporation, Expo Dubai 2020, Site-Wide Infrastructure Design, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 11/2015-Present.
The UAE won the bid to host the World Exposition 2020 in Dubai, popularly known as Expo 2020. It will be the first of such event to take place in the Middle East-Africa region. The event is significant for the UAE, as it interacts closely with the international community. Parsons was engaged to provide consultancy services for the site-wide infrastructure design in a currently undeveloped area. Parsons will design, monitor, manage, and control the delivery of the infrastructure for the entire development site based on the approved.

Senior CAD Design Manager/ (Assistant Project Manager – Planning) at Mouchel Middle East (WSP)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • July 2008 to September 2015

Duties and Responsibilities as Assistant Project Manager - Planning:
Provide support to project owners and clients by delivering finance and data reporting across a range of projects.
Principally based in Abu Dhabi U.A.E but travel to other MME offices if required. Responsible for all aspects of planning and programming of works for Design services across the MME offices and include resource planning, key deliverables, financial monitoring and forward resource planning. It involves project discussions with Project and Design Managers ensuring the required resources are in place to deliver the project on time and within the allocated budget.
• Understanding of Client objectives, programmes and budgets;
• Develop a detailed plan and programme for the various phases (Concept,
Preliminary, Detailed, Tender and Construction) of each Project in conjunction
with the Design and Project Manager
• Develop resource forecast and planning schedule across the MME offices
(Jeddah, Riyadh, Kuwait and UAE) in liaison with team leaders;
• Develop a Detailed combined resource planner showing milestones,
deliverables and resources.
• Detail the available, over and under-utilised design staff
• Ensuring all aspects of resourcing such as annual leave, public holiday, training,
PPP, etc, are captured within the resource planner.
• Monitor progress against programme of works and report on outputs;
• Report to Project Manager any concerns or serious deviations from any
programme to allow an action plan to be formulated and put into place to
mitigate non delivery of the project on time.

Duties and Responsibilities as Senior CAD Design Manager:
Oversees the execution of all Design and CAD works in Abu Dhabi offices and coordinates works in other offices in the Region and in UK. in a professional, cost effective and timely manner in compliance with company's and client's quality policies.

Overhauled and maintain CAD QA Systems within the office, created and implemented new CAD Design Manual to be used in the Region,

Maintain & develop Data Management System (CAD & DOCUMENTS), by ACONEX, and company developed Data Management System called "Collaborator"

Ensures the coordination of Design works with other disciplines and offices within Mouchel.

Responsible and introduced creative solutions and automations that would reduce time, resources and cost for executing the work.

Utilised experience and familiarity with the Local Authorities Requirements and Regulations.

Liaise with the Project Directors and Project Managers to ensure their programme and project requirements are properly manage, interpreted and delivered.

Ensures that the requirements of the Projects and members of the Project Teams are properly interpreted and actions, assist, guide and provides an advice if required.

Manage, Lead, and train the team of multi-disciplined, multi-cultural CADD Engineers, Designers and Technicians. Ensures that staff complies with the prescribed System and guidelines and to continually look for improvements to the system.

Identify and Recruit Resources, also identify the needs and do all the necessary actions.

Look after the Design Utilities coordination (Service Corridor), as per approved government agencies.

Started to understand the process, adapting/integrating BIM (Building Information Modelling) in to the project.

Senior CADD Manager/IT Administrator at Hyder Consulting Middle East (Arcadis)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • August 1999 to July 2008

Duties and Responsibilities:
Ensured that all CADD and design works in the Abu Dhabi/Al Ain office are completed on time and to the set Hyder and client’s requirements.

Managed, led, trained and monitored the team of multi-disciplined, multi-cultural CADD Engineers, Designers and Technicians. Programmed, and progressed work. Optimised the technical and operational performance of the CADD Team. Ensured that CADD staff comply with the requirements of the Company System and to continually look for improvements to the system.

Administrator, Setup, Configured, Maintained and Developed Data Management System (CAD, PDF and All Document Formats), using COLUMBUS PRO by Oasys, Enhancement 1 by Aprotec, ACONEX web based and self developed Database Drawing Information Management System (DIMS)

Identify requirements and Recruited CADD staffs.

Travelled, visited, trained and assisted other Hyder Middle East offices in the region and Manila, in preparation and coordinating of design works drawings as per the prescribed programme and client requirements.

Liaised with CADD production centres of Hyder offices in the Far East.

Ensured that the requirements of the Project Managers and members of the Project Teams are properly Interpreted and actions complying to the requirements of Company system, provided an assistance and advice if required.

Heavily involved in IT strategy and implementations. Identify problems with the stations/software/hardware terminals, network and provide solutions and resolve the situation at once.

CADD Supervisor and IT Supervising Engineer at Stone & Webster - Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • September 1993 to July 1999

CADD/Computer Dept, co-ordinated with the mgt, project mngrs, project engr's and engr's for developing of a design concept of each project on timely and cost effective approach. Planned operational/logistics goals and needs and implemented strategies together with the mngement. Recommend new staff for employment and necessary changes. Schedule/Assign workloads. Prepared detailed Estimates, Plans, Technical and Commercial reports for S&W CAD/Computer related requirements and operation.
Co-ordinated with the Clients, (ADCO, ADMA-OPCO, GASCO, EPPCO, PDO, etc) set up meetings, progress meetings, ensured that the proper procedures, reqrmts and standards are implemented together with the Stone & Webster procedure and practice. Exposed and familiar with the ADCO’s Engineering Procedure (E.P.), ADMA-Opco’s Drawing Office Procedure (D.O.P.), PDO’s Engineering Reference Documents (E.R.D.) Shell D.E.P. etc. Co-ordinated with Stone & Webster offices world wide, utilised the latest technology on transferring data’s and information’s from/to S&W world wide and clients, also co-ordinated with the Vendor if necessary.
Responsible for the administration, direction and training of CAD Designers, Draughtsman for the preparations of design packages utilising AutoCAD Rel. 14/MicroStation (Intergraph), third partly intelligent CAD software ie. Rebis AutoPlant, P-Chem On-line package, Pro-Flow, Pro-Iso, Pro-Pipe and GTX Raster CAD for scanned/raster, ensuring the proper operational procedures and standards based on ISO 9001 environment are met. Directly involved in the production of preliminary to final detailed design stages to As-built condition of the projects . Check and monitor the accurateness of all designed drawings based on all available data’s, information’s, standards and procedures, etc. Check, monitor and controlled allocated man-hour budget per project and charging of Cadd/Computer Dept personnel. Trained, developed and supervised CAD staff in all phases of operation.

CAD Production Coordinator/CAD Designer at Arabian Consulting Engineering Centre - Stone & Webster KSA
  • Saudi Arabia
  • June 1991 to February 1993

Assigned to planning & detailing of Electrical, Instrument, Piping layout drawings, site & mapping plans using CADD (Intergraph or AutoCAD) for Refinery or Industrial Projects.
Prepared Computer Aided Design plans of Electrical, Piping, Instrument, Process and Civil designs required for the preparations of complete design plans for ARAMCO, SAMAREC, Petrokemya, and other Petrochemical & Industrial Companies.
Prepared/revised Mechanical (P&ID, PFD, ILD), Electrical (Overall & One line Diagrams, Power and Lighting Installation layout), Civil & sanitary works. Edit/revised raster drawings issued by the client.
Liaised with Engineers/designers in preparing working plans, and materials takeoffs.
Checked and verified the completeness & correctness of design package and ensured it conformed to clients eProvided precision CAD support to CAD operators using both Intergraph MicroStation PC, I/RAS PC (Raster images), and AutoCAD software.
Co-ordinated with Project Manager, Project Engineers, Engineers, Designers and draughtsmen regarding the completion of design packages.
Assigned tasks & briefed designers, CAD Operators in accordance with the instructions given by engineers.
Conducted training and lectures on advance & basic principle and use of CAD software (Intergraph, I/RAS PC, MicroStation PC and AutoCAD.)ngineering standards.
Customized/installed the CAD andAssisted CAD operators in precision CAD drafting, involved in AutoCAD and Intergraph MicroStation setup for specific application.
Prepared proper documentation for each package such as drawing control and transmittal request other related software to conform with current Scope of Work.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
  • at Adamson University
  • October 1986

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
  • at University of Pangasinan, Dagupan, Philippines
  • March 1982

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (1st 2 years in the Course)

Specialties & Skills

Microstation
Production
Preparation
Operators
Engineering
AUTO CADD Design
Design Resource Planning

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Abu Dhabi Filipino Tennis Club
  • Member
  • November 1997
Institute of Electrical Engineers
  • Lifetime Member
  • October 1986

Training and Certifications

ISO-9001 LEAD AUDITOR (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2015

Hobbies

  • Fishing