Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
VOLUNTEER WORK
Timeline
Manager

Jan Girven

Designer
Dubois,WY

Summary

Analytical CAD Designer with hands-on experience designing for development plans for R&D, marketing. Creative, logical approach for 3D visualization of product. Detail-driven professional committed to meeting requirements of design, timeline, and budget. Effective Industrial Designer bringing strengths in problem-solving. Known for tackling issues quickly and finding most effective remediation.





Overview

30
30
years of professional experience

Work History

Owner

Jan Girven ... Here To Help You!
06.2021 - Current

Provide services to help customers to maintain and stay in their homes.

Household; cleaning, laundry, sewing

Handygal; general labor, repairs, design, pet environments

Firewood; splitting, stacking, kindling

Computer; CAD, software coaching

Personal Care; respite for caregivers, trips to Dr.'s

Errands; haul trash to dump, groceries

Cook and Housekeepping

Warm Valley Lodge
10.2021 - 05.2022
  • Communicated closely with servers to fully understand special orders for customers.
  • Cooked 3 meals a day
  • Housekeeping of entire facility

CAD Designer

Range, Dubois Telephone Exchange
01.2010 - 05.2021

Create, maintain maps, database. Gather GPS data in the field, locating, Create, maintain plant maps for design, planning, presentations,

government reporting, addressing issues. Create detailed documentation of procedures. CAD, M4ap3d, Oasis, Mapcom M4

Co-Owner

Plains Water Well Service, Inc.
04.2006 - 12.2009

Drove all aspects of business: residential wells, pumps, install solar stock pumps, sales, marketing, customer service, human resources, supervising, design website, materials supply, pump hand, drill hand, pump truck hand, operate CAT ski steer, GPS, on-site problem resolution. Preferred driller for developers.

CAD & Documentation

LLNL, Space Action Team
10.2004 - 02.2005

Facility deactivation, decontamination, and demolition. CAD Manager /Support, standards development, processes, presentations, tables, charts, maps, photos, flow charts, graphics, file translations, technical writing, large format plotting, office layouts, CAD; ACAD.

CAD/ Mechanical Designer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLNL
03.1993 - 02.2005

CAD Designer

LLNL, Plant Engineering Multi-disciplines
01.2003 - 10.2004

Supporting Electrical Engineering, Security Alarms, Space & Site Planning doing design, layouts, standards. Interior Design Services doing office design, color selections, workflow, ergonomics, estimates, and ordering furniture, standards. CAD; ACAD

CAD Designer

LLNL, Lasers Electrical Design & Drafting Group
07.2002 - 01.2003

ACAD training, support, file translations, process design, database, management, electrical, NIF. CAD; ACAD, ProE, Inventor

CAD Designer

LLNL, Laser Systems Integration
10.1999 - 12.2002

Livelink administrator, trainer, part of software development team & Help Desk, technical illustration & writer, documentation development, database management, NIF. CAD; ACAD

Mechanical Designer

LLNL, Laser Operations, Systems Start-up Group
06.1998 - 10.1999

Material flow process, time & space studies using LEAN manufacturing techniques, database management, NIF. CAD; ProE

Mechanical Designer

LLNL, Lasers Transport & Handling Operations Group
11.1996 - 06.1998

Facility utilization, time & space studies, material flow process design, on animations team, database management, NIF. CAD; Pro-E

Mechanical Designer

LLNL, Opto-Mechanical Beam Transport Group
10.1995 - 11.1996

Opto-mechanical design concepts, prototypes of line replaceable units, database management, NIF. CAD; Pro-E

CAD Designer

LLNL, IEEE Plant Engineering
10.1993 - 01.1995

Facilities, civil, electrical-mechanical CAD, project planning and systems testing, ACAD help desk. CAD; ACAD

Education

Bachelor of Science - Industrial Design

San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
06.1985

Skills

Professional Skills

  • Industrial Designer
  • Facility Design
  • Mapping & Database
  • Construction & Demolition
  • Ergonomics
  • 3D CAD Modeling
  • Process Analysis & Design
  • Technical Writing & Illustration
  • Interior Design
  • Business Management
  • Project Coordination
  • Model Making
  • Space & Site Planning
  • LEAN Manufacturing

Computer Skills

  • AutoCAD
  • Map 3D
  • Inventor
  • Mapcom M4
  • Oasis
  • Pro-E
  • Microsoft Office Pro
  • Windows
  • UNIX
  • Mac

VOLUNTEER WORK

Dubois EMS, Dubois WY, 7/2010 - 2020

EMS, BEC, EMT-B, comms, WYOLINK, set-up helicopter landings.

Dubois Search & Rescue, Dubois 7/2020 - 2020

Rescues, medic, logistics, WYOLINK, set-up helicopter landings, custom

mapping, large format plotting, gps, and track overlays.

Firefighter & Medic, Rural Fire Dept. Cheyenne WY 1/2006 - 11/2009

Cowboy Medic, Cheyenne Frontier Days Cheyenne WY, 2005 -2010

Brighter Holidays, Livermore CA, 1993 -2005

Workshop Leader, Expanding Your Horizons, Livermore, CA 1993 - 2004

We taught girls from 7th-11th grades, using CAD, and LEGO robotics.

Computer Modeler, HIller Aviation Museum, San Carlos CA 2004

Sketching, documenting, AD of vintage airplanes on loan form the 

Smithsonian. 

Presenter, Science on Saturdays, Livermore CA, 1998

On Lego Robotics to a crow of 300 parents, children and teachers.

Instructor, Earth Sciences on Saturdays, Livermore CA, 1997

Workshop teaching LEGO robotics to the public, toddlers to grandparents.

Timeline

Cook and Housekeepping

Warm Valley Lodge
10.2021 - 05.2022

Owner

Jan Girven ... Here To Help You!
06.2021 - Current

CAD Designer

Range, Dubois Telephone Exchange
01.2010 - 05.2021

Co-Owner

Plains Water Well Service, Inc.
04.2006 - 12.2009

CAD & Documentation

LLNL, Space Action Team
10.2004 - 02.2005

CAD Designer

LLNL, Plant Engineering Multi-disciplines
01.2003 - 10.2004

CAD Designer

LLNL, Lasers Electrical Design & Drafting Group
07.2002 - 01.2003

CAD Designer

LLNL, Laser Systems Integration
10.1999 - 12.2002

Mechanical Designer

LLNL, Laser Operations, Systems Start-up Group
06.1998 - 10.1999

Mechanical Designer

LLNL, Lasers Transport & Handling Operations Group
11.1996 - 06.1998

Mechanical Designer

LLNL, Opto-Mechanical Beam Transport Group
10.1995 - 11.1996

CAD Designer

LLNL, IEEE Plant Engineering
10.1993 - 01.1995

CAD/ Mechanical Designer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLNL
03.1993 - 02.2005

Bachelor of Science - Industrial Design

San Jose State University
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