I am Jeff Martin, PE, I have been using, supporting, training, and developing Bentley Civil Software (and its Intergraph precursors) for over 30 years. I started on AutoCAD, spent 18 months on CAiCE and another six months on Civil3D.
I have been developing training, delivering training, supporting and implementing the OpenRoads Designer software platform continuously since before its release in June 2013.
My professional mission is to provide the unique high-level integration and extension services my 30+ years experience allows me to do:
- Integrate: Optimizing the processes and flows of the services you already sell
- Extend: leverage and extend the capabilities of the individuals, the teams, and the organization to expand their scope of profitable service
- Develop/Share Civil Infrastructure Insight
The Civil XLr8 Mission is to Maximize the Efficiency and Excellence of your Civil Engineering Office through:
- Minimizing Software-related Risk
- Speed
- Quality
- Integration
- Expanding Service
- Fun
I have three "professional" websites, each with their own scope (with some overlap):
- CivilXLr8.com is the business/services-focused site.
- The original site from twenty years ago is here: the "Legacy" site
- CivilHelp.com is OpenRoads support content. I'll be sharing detailed tips, training and other content there.
- JeffMartinPE.com is an overly detailed history of my professional career. It's kind of my ongoing memoir/blog. It also hosts some thought leadership ideas like The Six-Ball Juggle
I am responsible for the content and layout of my sites. I type every word. I build sites with Joomla!
My "fun" public sites include:
- GoOutLookUp.net - a guide for beginning stargazers
- UCVolley.com - My son played volleyball. I enjoy photograqphy. I am compelled to share. 30,000 pictures later...
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OpenRoads Training Services and Support
Civil XLr8 is (mostly) Jeff Martin, PE, who started his Bentley Civil Engineering Career in 1992 as an InRoads Support Specialist at Intergraph Corporation. His recent thirteen year tenure at Bentley Systems saw him writing the first official Advanced InRoads Training Manual, the first OpenRoads Training Manuals and much more. He relinquished his position as Bentley Civil Training Materials Manager to get back into the field to help organizations excel in OpenRoads.
Jeff has led large scale Bentley Civil Software implementations, worked for multiple MegaCorps, worked with multiple government agencies, and, importantly, worked embedded recently on large-scale, mutli-discipline, live-collaboration MegaProjects.
The Civil XLr8 Mission, first stated over twenty years ago, is as essential today:
| Good | Accelerate | increase your speed | |
| Better | Excel-erate | increase your Excellence, your Quality (speed without quality just increases risk) | |
| Best | XLr8 | MAXIMIZE your Efficiency and Excellence |
Civil XLr8 is dedicated to Maximizing the Efficiency and Excellence of your Civil Engineering Office.
The OpenRoads Platform's Achilles Heel:
The OpenRoads Platform drawfs previous engineering software in power - AND Complexity. It's a revolution not an evolution. Not understanding the leap opens unprecedented risk to schedule, risk to budget, risk to client's satisfaction, risk to your designers' mental health. The Support ecosystem is not significantly better than it was in days of simpler software. Is it worth it? Yes, but the Support Gap is its Achille's Heel - and yours.
My #1 Recommendation
Get Help! Don't go it alone. Talk to someone who has been where you're going. Best Advice: Use all your Support Resources
How we XLr8 your Business
My 35+ years experience (eight years of engineering design and production (Roadway, Site, Drainage and Survey) and about twenty-seven in process optimization) give me unique capability in providing these Services:
- ORD Onboarding
- Implementation Planning and Execution - save time and money with Agile Implementation
- OpenRoads Workspace Development and Administration
- Training
- Custom Training Development
- Consulting (General, Strategic, Troubleshooting...)
- Risk Awareness and Mitigation
- Projects Managed via Fast, Lean (but full-featured) Websites
Contact Me. Let's save you some time, money, and frustration as you move forward with OpenRoads
Related Links - Relevant Content:
JeffMartinPE.com - new relevant content, plus a lot of history
CivilHelp.com - OpenRoads and other topic information (and training)
the legacy Civil XLr8 (from the early 2000s) is available at http://legacy.CivilXLr8.com