An example of one of the simple dish tables I have been building at Pacific Stainless. Such a table would take me 6 to 8 hours depending on the shelves and stretchers involved. It have been more likely building 3 sink+ units for the last year, and usually with a flat seam for longer units or L or U shaped units. A simple 3 sink might take me 10 to 12 hours with some of the more elaborate projects going 3 or 4 days; and all with exceptional quality

   I was not responsible for design and simply drew this up at home to show that I could. Provided is a link to the QTVR and Flat Layout. While drawn at home with VectorWorks, I am more familiar with, and prefer AutoCAD. I taught myself CAD at home on Vectorworks as it runs Mac native, and wound up using AutoCAD at work. I've been meaning to install Windows so I can improve but have not done that yet.

   If I don't know how to do something I can learn it in a few days ,on my own time, and I am more than happy to do so.

   Before Pacific Stainless I was Production Manager/Foreman/Lead Fabricator at CleanFab Inc. in Hillsboro. In the beginning that meant I was in charge of myself, but within the year it was a crew of up to 10, plus temporary labour over 2 or occasionally 3 shifts. My duties were continually shifting as we were a small business startup. Though CleanFab is out of business, it exists under a different name due to legalities, and it did not fail due for lack of delivery of exactly what was ordered, on time, or because of labour cost over-runs.

   As Lead Fabricator, and the only salaried shop employee; I rarely worked less than 80 hours a week, once doing a solid 52 hour shift to deliver a robotics frame to Asyst Shinko on time as to avoid back charges - a continual threat in the CYA high tech industry. This roughly 20' X 50' , 18' tall I-beam project was given to me 2 weeks before it was due, not to scale, with an all Japanese Language print, in metric, with JIS beam.... I redrew, built, and I delivered it. Though this was the longest shift I pulled, it was by no means atypical.

   Pictured is the top view of the major components of a ca. 30'X50' section of catwalk above a clean-room at Matrix, another project of many, received on short notice. And one of a few that required field measurement and re-design on my part, with re-approval from the architect.

    Many modifications had to be made to this structure as shown. Further modifications included; the locations of the drop thru's, the locations of all-thread hangers to clear the ceiling waffle, and other elements not shown such as the not requested ramp to existing walkway, ceiling hangers, and deck.

    While at CleanFab, I did shop drawings for all products and learned that Running and Fractional Dims are a must. I was instrumental in our shop's approval (all estimation, shop drawings, and the bulk of fabrication) for Intel direct sales of Pedestals - small examples available to the left. I drew and built many items such as: fall protection brackets, view tiiles, seismic restraints, pump stands, dewar racks, vibration tube restraints, chem overflow containers, yadda yadda yadda... Our Customers were Intel direct, Intel Subcontractors - ATG, Harder, PCI, Brycon, Pacific Crane and Rigging, et.al. -Isonic, D.W. Nicholson as well as many others.

I measured, drew, built (but for bends), and installed stainless handrails at Intel Hawthorn Farms, did modifications to roof railings for other Intel facilities; also reverse engineering and building swing gates. I welded, assembled, and shipped thousands of view tiles for clean room floors including the nasty cement ones - ramps, thresholds, window eyebrows, railings - one of our first jobs was subbing for Hansen Architectural, building railing systems for Hawaii resorts from thier scrap on a must-get done-now basis as thier suppliers were behind.

I started my metal fab at Advanced Seismic Hardware - part of Service Steel - as temp labour building view tiles, running the 40" RandBright for view tile inserts and for huge 4 to 6 hundred pound 3/8' or 1/2' thick stainless plates. Learned how to weld during lunch and breaktimes. Within a few months, welding was my primary job, and AutoCad was added to one of my duties shortlly after.