Where the lost art of drafting meets modern Revit

I was born profoundly deaf, and that shaped my mind long before I understood what it meant. Most people learn through sound. I learned through sight. My brain pushed everything into visual and spatial thinking, and that became the foundation for how I understand the world.

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Traditional school never fit. Teachers could not figure out why I struggled with classroom instruction but excelled at anything mechanical or hands on. One teacher finally told me the system was not built for someone like me, and he was right. I learned by watching, by noticing patterns, and by understanding how things fit together. My brain naturally broke problems down in three dimensions.

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That showed up early. I could take machines apart and rebuild them without instructions. I learned welding, mechanics, metalwork, and fabrication by instinct. I solved a Rubik’s Cube when it first hit the market. I built custom computers from catalog parts in the eighties. Anything that required spatial intelligence made sense to me immediately.

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After my parents divorced when I was thirteen, school lost all meaning. I left and went straight into construction. On a job site, my mind finally matched the environment. I could understand buildings instantly and read plans without effort. That was the doorway to the next four decades of my life.

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Over the years I built more than structures. I built companies. I started several truss manufacturing plants and a wall panel plant, and learned the production side of construction in a way most people never see. Those operations sharpened my understanding of load paths, tolerances, fabrication logic, and how drawings connect directly to real world assembly.

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Along the way I worked beside an old school architect who taught me the drafting standards that once defined clarity. He came from a generation where every line carried intent, and he drilled those principles into me. Later, I applied those same standards inside Revit, bringing traditional clarity into modern software. That experience gave me a rare bridge between the past and the future of documentation.

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Being born deaf never held me back. It forced my brain to develop in a direction that became my greatest strength. It shaped how I see buildings, how I solve problems, and how I communicate structure. Every step from childhood to building companies to learning old world drafting has brought me to where I am today.