👋 Introduce Yourself!
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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I'll get the ball rolling!
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. ⛳️3 -
👋 Hey hey Bluebeamers! So excited all ya'll are here!!
👩 Name: Angela
🤝Role & Company: Community Manager @ Bluebeam
🌏️ Location: Chi-Town, IL USA
⏳️ How long have you been using Bluebeam: 6.5 years – but I’m still a beginner 😊
💙 Favorite Bluebeam feature: Edit ? PDF Content > Erase Content & Edit Text
💙 Love: Oh gee, where do I begin!? I love the following…but in no particular order:
- 🏝️ Beach vacations but prefer the pool
- 🥃 rum & diet
- 🐶dogs (but don’t have one yet ☹)
- 🎵 listening to music
🤸 Fun Fact: I was in a David Copperfield show in Vegas and held a scorpion in my hand!
📸 P.S. this picture is 6 years old hehe
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Name: "Andy" Andrew Krogh
Role & Company: Building Official with the City of Murrieta, CA.
Location: North San Diego County (home) and Murrieta (Riverside County)
How long have you been using Bluebeam: 3 to 4 years
Favorite Bluebeam feature: Tool Chest/sets with all our standard comments - That and CTRL-Z (if you know, you know).
Love: Karate, CERT -Community Emergency Response Team, Family, California Gymkhana Association (Horse Group)
Fun Fact: I was published in the SD Union Tribune Newspaper as the worst 2 year old in the county…… But some how I survied.Picute below if from Legoland Castle Hotel - Carlsbad, CA.
Be safe. Do good!
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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: 🎄 birthday4 -
👩 Name: Carina
🤝Role & Company: Practice Technology Specialist at Corgan
🌏️ Location: Phoenix 🌵
⏳️ How long have you been using Bluebeam: ~10 years
💙 Favorite Bluebeam feature: What isn't a favorite?
🩷 Love: Oil painting, gardening, learning
🤸 Fun Fact: I've been inside of an operating room, in the serial zone, during an open heart surgery as an on-looker
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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!4 -
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 eggsFun Fact: I was part of the team that built Shanghai Disneyland
RJ Palis, PE
AECOM Hunt
Digital Technology-BIM/VDC Senior Manager
Building & Construction Technologies
(m)213.364.7665 | (e) rj.palis@aecom.com
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Name: George Othitis
Role & Company: CAD Manager - Daft McCune Walker, Inc.
Location: Baltimore, MD
How long have you been using Bluebeam: 4 years - Pandemic LIFESAVER
Favorite Bluebeam feature: Very similar to AutoCAD. Low learning curve and easy to train.
Love: Music - All kinds, movies, video games, and of course hanging out with the fam!
Fun Fact: I used to be in a Post-Hardcore Band. 😅Bluebeam Certified Professional (BCP)
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Name: Katie
Role & Company: Architectural Designer at Nehmer
Location: Rockville, MD
How long have you been using Bluebeam: Around 8 years… maybe more?
Favorite Bluebeam feature: I love using the snapshot tool to create a quick overlay, move something on a sheet etc.. very handy!
Love: Tacos, Drawing and Getting Outside
Fun Fact: I've lived in Virginia almost my entire life… it still feels like I've only recently moved to Maryland, but it's been 5 years!6 -
Hey @Katie Hoffman - JN+A !!! Welcome to the Community!!!
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Name: Liz Larsen
Role & Company: Structural Project Engineer at Stewart
Location: Raleigh, NC
How long have you been using Bluebeam: Since 2015
Favorite Bluebeam feature: 🔥 Custom Statuses + Studio Session 🔥
Love: Video games and board games
Fun Fact: I have my own Bluebeam tips and tricks blog! Check it out at lizlarsen.me6 -
YES!!! @Liz Larsen !!!! LOVE THIS!
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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.4 -
@Doug McLean - the man, the myth the legend!!! So happy to see you're in the community!
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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! 😛3 -
🦁 Name: Ari/Ariel Rejtman (The "J" is silent)
🏙️ Role & Company: AEC Technical Specialist & Bluebeam Certified Instructor at Digital Drafting Systems (DDSCAD)
🗺️ Location: Miami Lakes, FL
⏳️ How long have you been using Bluebeam Revu?: 7+ years
🤩 Favorite Bluebeam Revu features: Reuse Markup Tools, Sketch to Scale, & Dynamic Fill.
🧡 Love: Writing, singing, creating commentary videos, exercise, board/video games, & teaching/learning.
🎶 Fun Fact: I have perfect pitch and can sing on-key after hearing a sound/song. I also love to create lyrics for instrumental songs.
Thanks for inviting me! I'm looking forward to chatting with ya'll soon! ^_^Ari R.
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@Ari S Rejtman Hey hey!
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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!Sarah L. Wallace
Consultant, Operate Practice
D 703.924.5323
M 443.771.4384
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Name
: Luke ShirasRole & Company
: architect
: Spokane
Location
: Decades
How long have you been using BluebeamFavorite Bluebeam feature
: Auto linking
: board games, camping, hiking, disc golf
Love
: Many people believe the X-Men is based on my grandmother's book.
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@Luke Shiras - Bernardo Wills Yes! Another disc golfer!
🕳️ 🚩
Also interested to hear more about this possible X-Men origin…
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My grandmother (Wilmar Shiras) wrote "Children of the Atom" (book) which you can learn more about here -
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".
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.
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@Luke Shiras now that is cool! Thanks for sharing the links!
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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 painted3 -
Name:
Isaac HarnedRole & Company:
Document Control Senior Specialist, Engineered Air Balance Co., Inc.Location:
Houston, TexasHow long have you been using Bluebeam:
8 YearsFavorite Bluebeam feature:
Form fields and JavaScriptLove:
D&D, Magic the Gathering, Billiards, Complex game lore for games I'll never have the time to playFun Fact:
6 Kids, 'nuff said =)3 -
Name
: Peter MartinRole & Company
: BIM Coordinator @ The Austin Company
: San Antonio, Texas
Location
: since 2018
How long have you been using BluebeamFavorite Bluebeam feature
: The Snapshot tool! It is so useful to create markups and even enlarged room plans.
: Taking in a view. Working outside. Staring at a building. Loving my wife.
Love
: Ran my first (and only) marathon last year.
Fun FactSATBUG Champ
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@Iharned your wedding picture is AMAZING! 🤩
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@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!
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@Aily Roper & @Angela Aff Thank you!!
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@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.
SATBUG Champ
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