Senior Principal Experience Designer at Autodesk

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The Autodesk Forge Platform (currently known as Autodesk Platform Services or APS) is a cloud based portal that facilitates developers with a new approach of building apps with Autodesk web APIs.

Autodesk Forge Platform

The Autodesk Identity Service (a.k.a. Oxygen) is a platform product that provides a cloud based single sign-on solution for managing, authenticating and authorizing Autodesk user ID(s) across web-based and desktop applications and services. It is a core web service that unifies all customer accounts, including other single sign-on accounts globally across all of Autodesk.

Autodesk Identity Platform

This project can be subdivided to three major categories:
• Providing users the ability to check in related drawings and presentation files along with their CAD models
• Allowing users to view and open the related files that have been checked into the vault
• Removing the restriction of checking in suppressed files

Improved Check In Workflows

A back-end research and development activity, the goals of this project strives to:
• Develop and employ an improved collaborative designer-developer workflow process
• Develop and deliver a search navigation platform built on WPF technology
• Provide differential CAD users the means to validate search and navigation results within their authoring application

Mini Explorer

The first release of a asynchronous tool which allows items information to be pushed to PLM 360.

PLM 360 Sync Tool

Reviewing and keeping oversight of the Pro/ENGINEER Vault add-in development.

Pro/ENGINEER Vault add-in

Reviewing and keeping oversight of the SolidWorks Vault add-in development.

SolidWorks Vault add-in

Through a continuous improvement initiative, it resulted by chance the creation of "Variables Manager", a personal published plugin tailored to streamline the management of design variables within the Figma desktop application.

"Variables Manager" empowers designers by simplifying the extraction and manipulation of Figma variables, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple collections. With this intuitive tool, all variables are conveniently organized in one accessible location, facilitating effortless viewing and editing.

Variables Manager

The inclusion of a Vault Revision Table feature into the Vault pay-for editions whereby the revision block within a drawing can be populated with data from the server.

Vault Revision Table

The Vault Thin Client is an overhaul project from a legacy web client.
Major revamp work was performed in this release, which includes the use of updated jQuery libraries, refactoring of styles, inclusion of media specific views as well as interactive behaviors for manipulating displayed data.