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Dominick Gallegos, Civil 3D Technical Marketing Manager for Autodesk, shares his unique perspective and ideas on the functionality and use of Civil 3D for a range of different project types.
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- posted 04/04/07 by Anthony Governanti How you say French?
- So this week I find myself in Paris France, but luckily no drama to tell for the trip over. All the parts of the plane stayed on, and I arrived in Paris’ Charles De Gaul airport at the bright and cherry time of 6:30 AM.
My gracious host this week was Willy Luce, the French Civil AE, and he’s been very kind and understanding when it comes to my complete lack of knowledge when it comes to all things French, including the language. After several cell phone calls and some clarification of where I actually was in the airport, we met up and headed to the Autodesk office. Willy and I took the “local” tour of Paris, as we seemed to hit every red traffic light in the city as we slowly made our way to the eastern part of the city.
I’m here, much like last week in China, to train our internal sales force on the new features and to go over the Tech Camp materials. If you are a reseller, and haven’t been to one of Autodesk’s Tech camps (formerly Boot camps) then you must read Dana’s TechCamp Survival Guide. Anyway, we had a great two days, and I think everyone got what they needed so they could turn around in a couple weeks and train the EU partners and resellers on this year’s release.
Left to Right: back row – Ian McGregor, Alexey Petrinchuk, Brian Kling, Jack Strongitharm, Da Govna, Jim Hughes, Klaus Dahlfeld; Front row – Willy Luce, Marco Martens, Ove Cervin, Tomas Lendvorsky, Joerg Pipo, and Roland Klement.
Here we have a great mug shot of the EU AEs about mid-way through today’s training. It was hard to stay awake, especially with the temp in our training room being about 10 degrees above Stuffy, and me droning on and on about feature lines and corridor assemblies.
We did enjoy a wonderful dinner the first night at a restaurant in the Village Saint- Emilion (Bercy) area.
Marco and I split probably the largest Filet steak I’ve ever seen. The restaurant specialized in steaks, and had a 4 person meal that served a 1 Kilogram steak! That is just huge. As it was, we had the 750g, which is the same weight as a bottle of wine! It was a great meal, and Willy did a superb job selecting some great red wines for us to enjoy (as the French are so known for doing anyway!)
Anyway, it’s been a great trip, but I am anxious to get back home to the family, as I’ve only been home for 1.5 days in the past 12. I’m signing off now, wish me luck for an unadventurous trip back home.
Till next time,
Cheers,
AG