nateholt
nateholt
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Bio
[As told by Scott Reese, AutoCAD Product Line Manager - Autodesk, Inc.] Nate was the lead architect for AutoCAD Electrical and has an incredibly interesting background in ECAD that h's far too modest to tell you about so I will.
Nate spent 23 years in industry, first as a plant electrical engineer and then as a controls engineer designing and installing chemical batching systems. Along the way, Nate had the vision to customize his employer's five ComputerVision seats to automate many of the mundane tasks involved in electrical design (this was back in the days when a seat of CAD started at $100K!). This started him thinking about the potential of affordable ECAD.
After two-plus decades working for someone else, Nate turned entrepreneurial to develop and launch his own AutoCAD-based ECAD package. Since he had just spent the previous twenty-plus years of his life running conduit, landing wires, programming PLC's, starting up machines, and living in front of a computer monitor, he (and his one employee, Pat Murnen) really understood the needs of his target market, the controls engineer.
After five years of rapid growth in the market and really putting the crunch on the competitive ECAD products, Nate's company was acquired by VIA Development Corporation. This is where I came to know Nate - when I was VP of VIA.
The rest is history. Autodesk acquired the product from VIA Development and launched the AutoCAD Electrical.
Nate adds... in mid-2009 I more or less "retired" from Autodesk and resumed my AutoCAD Electrical consulting business. After a four-year absence doing something else, came back. Love this stuff!
Update (Jan 2016): after seven year absence, unexpectedly asked to rejoin Autodesk. Glad to be back. Working on enhancing AcadE for use in complex Electrical Substation Protection and Control design.
Update (Oct 2016): Wow, that was short. Involuntarily spun off by Autodesk, along with a handful of others, to join Colorado-based Spatial Business Systems and an accelerated pace of enhancements to AcadE for SBS's new Substation Design add-on to AcadE. A wealth of new AcadE tools and greatly enhanced versions of existing AcadE tools are now in place. Very impressive / exciting stuff for AcadE substation design users.
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