Metalwork/CAD Designer

Outside of my project management job, I freelance metalwork/CAD designs, often from concept to fabrication. Most of my designs are tailored to the clients preferences including but not limited to material already procured by the client, space constraints, or client needs.

While not every design is meant for efficiency, I offer creative solutions tailored to the clients needs. Some of the more recent examples include balcony hanging planters with modern geometric features, and accompanying hanging planters for indoor plants made out of stainless sheet metal and stainless square tubing. For the sidewalls of the planters, I designed the walls to be at a 25* angle, to be able to be narrow, while allowing ample space for plant roots to grow while remaining narrow. I cut the triangles off the sheet metal using cutoff wheels, measured my square tubing join at a point, while maintaining the same angle of the triangle walls. I tacked the square tubing together, ensuring the material was at the angle I needed before doing full welds. I did the same for the triangle walls, ensuring that the weld covered about 3/4 of the full length to prevent any water from seeping out while maintaining the sharp edges of the design. To hang the planters, and give the illusion of it levitating. I picked some safety wire (thin while still being strong enough to carry 100lbs on one line, which is well above what the planters weigh with plants, soil, and water) drilled through the edge of the square tubing, and using a ferrule and stop sets (and rubber stopper to prevent corrosion from aluminum contact) I created a square hanging hook that hides the top side ferrule-stop sets to keep the planters hung while giving the illusion from afar. (Images will be updated when client sends planters with live plants.) 

I designed a shed for a client to be able to use his existing cement floor in his backyard. In order to avoid Austin permitting requirements, the shed was designed in accordance but the maximum allowable specifications, and with the client's intent of using it to store, and work on, his 1973 Chevelle. Furthermore, I designed the shed to be able to open fully on both ends, allowing for airflow during workdays, a chainfall gutter system to collect water on the backside of the cement floor to keep the water collection system as far out from view as possible. For this design, I provided a BOM, and fabricated some of the gutter system, but as of 7/4, the client contacted me requesting to proceed with the entire shed construction. I am currently getting the I-beams, C-channel, and the corrugated roof/wall panels cut to size, the installation will begin by anchoring the I-beams, welding the c-channels and supports to the I-beams, and then completing the shed with roof and wall panels, followed by the gates and locking system. (Images will be updated upon project completion.)