👋 Introduce Yourself!

Marco M
Marco M Posts: 131
edited June 3 in Community Hub

Hello, Bluebeamers! 

The Bluebeam Community is all about building connections with other Bluebeamers around the world and we’d love to get to know everyone, especially any newcomers! 

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  • Marco M
    Marco M Posts: 131
    edited April 2

    I'll get the ball rolling!

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    Name: Marco 
    Role & Company: Digital Community Specialist @ Bluebeam 
    Location: Born and raised in 🏖️ San Diego, CA, currently residing in 🏞️ Portland, OR 
    How long have you been using Bluebeam: Almost 4 months now! I’m new to the team. 
    Favorite Bluebeam feature: Revu – Studio Sessions 
    Love: Golf, 🕳️ disc golf, 🎮️ video games, 📽️ movies, 🥃 tequila (not in that order!) 
    Fun Fact: I’ve made 2 hole-in-ones throughout my disc golf career, but I’m still chasing that hole-in-one in “real” golf. ⛳️

  • Ryan Arbuckle
    Ryan Arbuckle Posts: 25

    Name: Ryan
    Role & Company: Software Trainer @ Bluebeam
    Location    : 🏇🏀🥃Lexington, KY
    How long have you been using Bluebeam    : 6 months
    Favorite Bluebeam feature: big Sessions fan
    Love    : 👩‍❤️‍👨my kids, 🏖️beach, 🏞️travel, 💻️technology, 📘reading, 🚴‍♀️exercise, 🏎️video games, 🥃bourbon
    Fun Fact    : 🎄 birthday

    First time eating oysters

  • Reesa
    Reesa Posts: 2

    Name: Reesa
    Role & Company: Learning Experience Designer with BLUEBEAM!
    Location    : Greater Seattle area 🌲
    How long have you been using Bluebeam    : ~7 years
    Favorite Bluebeam feature: Hands down, the Measurement tool and the ability to calibrate scale. It significantly reduced the number of architectural drawings cluttering up my office and is so much easier than using a scale ruler lol.
    Love    : I'm near the Puget Sound and am always in the water, whether it's kayaking, paddle boarding, or diving. I also like painting and gardening.
    Fun Fact    : I was an interior designer before coming to Bluebeam and trained other designers in various millwork products. I used Revu extensively throughout my tenure and still love it!

  • RJ Palis
    RJ Palis Posts: 31
    edited April 5

    Name: RJ Palis
    Role & Company: Digital Technology Senior Manager with AECOM Hunt
    Location    : Los Angeles, CA ☀️
    How long have you been using Bluebeam    : Was introduced to Bluebeam in 2012 when Walt Disney Imagineering was using it for Design Review session via Sessions
    Favorite Bluebeam feature: Perfectly shaped Cloud markup tool ☁️
    Love    : Family, Coffee, People-watching, scrambled eggs

    Fun Fact: I was part of the team that built Shanghai Disneyland

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    RJ Palis, PE

    AECOM Hunt

    Digital Technology-BIM/VDC Senior Manager

    Building & Construction Technologies

    (m)213.364.7665 | (e) rj.palis@aecom.com

  • Angela Aff
    Angela Aff Posts: 137

    Hey @Katie Hoffman - JN+A !!! Welcome to the Community!!!

  • Angela Aff
    Angela Aff Posts: 137

    YES!!! @Liz Larsen !!!! LOVE THIS!

  • Doug McLean
    Doug McLean Posts: 11

    Name: Doug McLean
    Role & Company: Sr. Estimator, Towne Millwork
    Location    : Vancouver, BC Canada 🇨🇦
    How long have you been using Bluebeam    : pushing 6 years now
    Favorite Bluebeam feature: customization
    Love    : Learning
    Fun Fact    : I'm a bit of a Star Trek nerd.

    One of my main things is using Revu to improve productivity. I'm also pretty good with Power Query which is almost the perfect tool for prepping your markups to be transferred to other software.

  • Angela Aff
    Angela Aff Posts: 137

    @Doug McLean - the man, the myth the legend!!! So happy to see you're in the community!

  • Aily Roper
    Aily Roper Posts: 24

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    Name: Aily Roper 
    Role & Company: Manager, Customer Education @ Bluebeam
    Location: Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 and currently residing in beautiful Pasadena, California 🌴🏔️
    How long have you been using Bluebeam: Coming up on 3 years - I help create our educational content on Bluebeam University, so I've had quite a bit of exposure to Bluebeam Revu, but I'm always looking to learn from our customers! If you have ideas for content or workflow knowledge in Bluebeam University, please let me know!! I'm always open to new ideas and ways to teach our end users how to use Bluebeam ☝️👩‍🎓
    Favorite Bluebeam feature: I'm an iPhone gal, so all the new markups available on the Bluebeam Cloud iOS app are making me so happy, wheee! 📱
    Love: Learning new things & nerding out, my dog Worm, travel, camping, Japan, interior & furniture design, anything on the Bravo network (#1 guilty pleasure, minus the guilt)
    Fun Fact: I drastically change my hair about once every 2 years. It's just hair, it grows back! 😛

  • Angela Aff
    Angela Aff Posts: 137

    @Ari S Rejtman Hey hey!

  • Sarah Wallace
    Sarah Wallace Posts: 8

    Name: Sarah
    Role & Company: Consultant, Operate Practice, CADD Microsystems
    Location    : Alexandria, Virginia
    How long have you been using Bluebeam    :  In the past five years, I had been using Bluebeam passively. In 2023 I transitioned into becoming an instructor. Despite the new role, I still consider myself a newbie as I continue to discover features and functionalities.
    Favorite Bluebeam feature:  My favorite Bluebeam features are Compare Documents and Overlay Pages. I'm always excited to demonstrate those in my classes.
    Love    :  fitness, baking, gardening, thrifting and spending time with my family
    Fun Fact    : During High School I worked as the mall Easter Bunny!

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  • Marco M
    Marco M Posts: 131

    @Luke Shiras - Bernardo Wills Yes! Another disc golfer!

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    Also interested to hear more about this possible X-Men origin…

  • Luke Shiras
    Luke Shiras Posts: 260

    My grandmother (Wilmar Shiras) wrote "Children of the Atom" (book) which you can learn more about here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Atom

    The children in the novel are mutants, brought together to explore their unique abilities and study in secret at an exclusive school for gifted children, lest they be hated and feared by a world that would not understand them. The Oakland Tribune described it in 1953 as "the inevitable adjustments and maladjustments of minority genius to majority mediocrity".

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    Over the decades that followed, this eloquent portrait of gifted children confronting a hostile world proved itself to be an enduring classic. It has often been credited with providing the inspiration for Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s world-famous comic book creation, The Uncanny X-Men.

  • Ryan Arbuckle
    Ryan Arbuckle Posts: 25

    @Luke Shiras now that is cool! Thanks for sharing the links!

  • Luke Shiras
    Luke Shiras Posts: 260
    edited May 15

    Commented in wrong thread. Welcome @Ryan Arbuckle

  • STR - Kristin
    STR - Kristin Posts: 4

    Name: Kristin McGill
    Role & Company: Owner, SimpleTech Resources
    Location: Vancouver, Washington
    How long have you been using Bluebeam: 15 Years
    Favorite Bluebeam feature: Custom Tool Sets!
    Love: Family, Travel, Good Food and Coffee
    Fun Fact: I have artificial iris implants that were hand painted

  • Iharned
    Iharned Posts: 40

    Name: Isaac Harned
    Role & Company: Document Control Senior Specialist, Engineered Air Balance Co., Inc.
    Location: Houston, Texas
    How long have you been using Bluebeam: 8 Years
    Favorite Bluebeam feature: Form fields and JavaScript
    Love: D&D, Magic the Gathering, Billiards, Complex game lore for games I'll never have the time to play
    Fun Fact: 6 Kids, 'nuff said =)

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  • Peter Martin
    Peter Martin Posts: 13

    Name: Peter Martin
    Role & Company: BIM Coordinator @ The Austin Company

    Location    : San Antonio, Texas

    How long have you been using Bluebeam    : since 2018
    Favorite Bluebeam feature: The Snapshot tool! It is so useful to create markups and even enlarged room plans.
    Love    : Taking in a view. Working outside. Staring at a building. Loving my wife.

    Fun Fact    : Ran my first (and only) marathon last year.

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    SATBUG Champ

  • Aily Roper
    Aily Roper Posts: 24

    @Iharned your wedding picture is AMAZING! 🤩

  • Angela Aff
    Angela Aff Posts: 137

    @Iharned : Six kids - how did I not know this??! Dad of the year award right there! And agree with @Aily Roper - LOVE the photo!

    @Peter Martin : I also love your pic!!! Is a current project in progress? Or is it complete?! I feel like we need to see a before and after. Also, CONGRATS on running a marathon! Huge accomplishment - and definitely one more than I'll ever have.. ha!

  • Iharned
    Iharned Posts: 40

    @Aily Roper & @Angela Aff Thank you!!

  • Peter Martin
    Peter Martin Posts: 13
    edited May 21

    @Angela Aff that's a scrap wood arbor from our previous house! We moved last year and got to start a new garden from scratch. My wife has turned me into a gardener and I love it.

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    SATBUG Champ

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