About Gerard

Decades in graphic design, technical writing and technical illustration, architectural design & architectural illustration. Unity development added into the mix to develop a specific set of arch viz tools for VR/AR and realtime explorable environments for my clients.

Architectural visualisations, BIM coaching and consulting, illustrations and more; I expanded my original technical writing toolset to include topic-based, multi-target type authoring using MadCap Flare, and have some DITA and oXygen exposure (though limited) and of course this workflow and data structural concept is easily transferrable to other topic-based authoring tools such as Paligo.

In architectural BIM authoring tools, though I have moderate Revit experience (and have supported its use in a  tech writing capacity with CADDmin) ArchiCAD is the application with which I'm intimately familiar, and which I consider one of my core strengths; I've also deep experience with BIMx - and some experience with Telka BIMsight, AutoDesk Glue 360, and other BIM integration tools.   


My broad set of 3D Generalist tools is headed by Modo (by far my favourite, being powerful, fast, artist-friendly and effective). I'm very comfortable with Modo's various toolsets, from direct modeling through procedural (though still learning a lot there), rigging, animating, materials / shaders, lighting and rendering. Though I use enough Blender to comfortably put it in my list, it's not my core strength; similarly, though I know  enough Rhino to run Rhino for Grasshopper, I'm not a Rhino guru.

I've added a range of 3D CADD tools to my skillset whilst working with Lucid and BendPak, and now consider Plasticity to be one of my go-to tools - right behind Foundry's Modo. CADD Assistant helps with file viewing and conversion, and makes a good addition to the toolkit.

I've finally started to integrate my decades-long musical practice into my forward-facing professional mix, and so I now list Logic Pro, MainStage, NodeBeat and other tools, as well as fretless bass, EUB (Electric Upright Bass), guitar and slide-bar guitar in my set of skills.