About Me

I'm deeply interested in anything that has to do with and involves new products/process Research & Design (R&D) in mechanical engineering, and wider.

Truly a fan of modern 3D CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM packages widely used in today's product development process.

Invested hours of work and exercises to discover possibilities and capabilities of almost each and every CAD package mentioned in these pages. And still learning them-sometimes it seems like a lifetime isn't long enough to discover all options implemented in modern CADs.

And I'm still amazed with what you can achieve with these CADs on your PC. Maybe because I've had a chance to work on a good old drawing-board at first, I realize what a relief is to work in 3D/2D on a workstation or PC.

Of course, CAD is and should only be a tool that helps and assists an engineer to design faster better and improved products in today's competetive markets, with fewer mistakes and fewer expensive misleading attempts. But CAD is not almighty itself, because in front of a PC monitor still sits a man/woman whose ideas, imagination, experiences and knowledge is passed on to a digital model on screen.

Often you will encounter on CAD related forums discussions about what CAD package is the best of them all - it's very ridiculous, from my point of view.

Every package has it own advantages and shortcomings. There isn't and there won't be one and ultimate. Which one is the best at one moment and for which purpose depends of many factors, and should be a matter of objective and unprejudiced evaluation. Company resources, size, type of industry the company is in, ease of adoption among engineers and technicians, price of purchase and maintaining are only a few things that needs to be considered when you make a choice of which CAD package you should choose.

Learning CAD for itself is not good enough for becoming complete, full-scale design engineer, if you constantly don't work on yourself, improving your skills not only in CAD design, but also in engineering generally. Learn every day something new, because learning in engineering is everlasting process.

Sometimes something that looks good and feasible on screen might not work that well on site or in real life-but, if you put yourself in a position of a tradesperson-guy or craftsman who should carry out your design in practice, in manufacturing workshop or on construction site, you're already on a right way to become a good design engineer. Always bear in mind a man/woman out there who should make your virtual designs or ideas, ie. your imaginations come true.

There isn't a higher reward for an engineer then when his/her design and imagination become accomplished in real world, because deep inside we are all creators and we want to leave a trail and footstep behind us.

My formal CV is attached below, for anyone who's interested.

It's posted both in MS Word and PDF file formats.

It's probably the most difficult to write a few words about oneself, but I'll try not to be boring.

Yes, I'm the guy on a left picture.

Graduated Mechanical Engineer (BSc), with few years of experience in product research & development, worked on various positions in industry.

I've began my career as a Design Engineer in a Hydraulics and Pneumatics Components Manufacturing Company, then as a Vehicles Test Engineer in a Company that makes Diesel Engines and Agricultural Tractors (automotive industry), after that I've been working a bit as a PC hardware/software maintenance tehnician, then went to live and work in Australia ("Down Under"), stayed there for about 9 months and worked as Structural CAD Drafter-Designer for an Alternative Waste Management Solutions Provider Company.