About the Authors

Don Bokmiller is a design technologist at Clark Nexsen, an architecture and engineering firm in Norfolk, Virginia. He has worked in the AE design industry since 1996, when he started out as a CAD technician in the electrical department. As the company grew, he eventually became one of a few CAD managers, while also participating as an electrical designer on several projects. When Revit Systems came along, he participated in the Autodesk Beta program and has continued to do so for each release. His current position is to optimize the company's use of Revit. He currently works under the direction of the technical director, tying the software user experience directly to the software, hardware, and network administrators. Don has also worked as an application specialist, supporting clients of various sizes and various company structures on their use of Revit MEP. He has taught classes and given presentations to local engineering organizations. Don is an Autodesk User Group International (AUGI) member and has presented at Autodesk University and the Revit Technology Conference North America.

Simon Whitbread, Revit and CAD implementation specialist, started using Revit at release 5.1. He has over 30 years of experience in the building services and architectural industries. Since the early 1990s, he has been involved in developing and managing CAD and IT systems. He moved to New Zealand in 2002, where he led the implementation of Revit Architecture at Jasmax, one of New Zealand's leading architectural practices. More recently he has been providing implementation, support, and training services for AutoCAD and the Revit suite of programs to companies in Australia, Dubai, Indonesia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United States. Now living back in the United Kingdom, Simon enjoys spending time with his family, is a frequent speaker at Autodesk University and Revit Technology Conference (RTC) events, and is a member of AUGI, Twitter, and that odd Facebook thingy.

Dan Morrison is VDC engineer at BPi - BGC POS International, in Perth, Australia. With over 20 years' experience as a Mechanical Engineer, designer, and modeler, he started at AECOM (then Bassett Consulting Engineers) in Sydney in 2000. He was transferred to Perth in 2003 to build up the West Australian team and was part of the growth of that office from just 5 to 100 people, including introducing Revit MEP to the company in 2006. Daniel became an implementation and development leader for AECOM in the Australia and New Zealand region. In 2013 it became time to move on to new adventures and Daniel became VDC engineer at BPi, a joint venture between BGC and POSCO E&C, where his role includes using various BIM tools to help the collaboration between all members of the design and construction teams. Daniel is an Autodesk Beta tester for Revit and Navisworks, is an active member of the AUGI Forum and Revitforum.org, and has presented at the Revit Technology Conference (RTC) AUS event, BIM Day Out (Perth), and various other seminars, conferences, panel discussions, and industry events.

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