Kari Gehde Email & Phone Number

Appleton, Wisconsin

Electrical Design Consultant providing electrical design services for commerical projects.

Dedicated and productive team player with practical experiences seeking an electrical design postion within a company that offers professional growth and career advancement by providing project assignments with diversity and challenges.

Prepared and reviewed electrical drawings and specifications. Provided layout, calculations, specifications, drawings and overall quality assurance. Ensured compliance with client and governments standards including LEED certification. Reviewed in house designer's and engineer's projects for quality control. Maintained effective working relationship with internal departments and external clients. Prepared construction addendums, change orders,proposal requests and reviewed project shop drawings. Conducted field inspections and compiled installation reviews (punch list) for construction projects.

Responsibilities included the design, specification and coordination ofelectrical and lighting systems projects for a variety of educational, municipalities, heath careand commercial facilities. Design responsibilities included layout, calculations, specificationtext, drawings and overall quality assurance. Worked with CADD staff in document preparation.Reviewed project shop drawings to insure compliance with specification documents.

Provided electrical engineering design consultation to several architectural clients including.Preparation of preliminary and working drawings and specifications. Compiled projectcompletion calendar for in-house project management. Determined estimates of projectengineering and construction costs. Reviewed project shop drawings to insure compliance withspecification documents.

Assistant to staff engineers in electrical design of commercial facilities. Established and set upelectrical design standards on CADD, including details and schedules. Duties also includedproject light fixture selection, calculations and layout, and coordinating electrical design withmechanical and plumbing systems.

Assisted the job captain in the architectural department. Drafted mechanical overlays, details,and schedules. Operated blueprint and offset machines to prepare bid documents for distributionto contractors. In January of 1983, transferred to the Mechanical Department to apprentice withengineers in electrical design.

Electrical

UW-Madison - NEC Code 2007 NFPA fire alarm and Electrical Code Workshops for continuing education credits. Various vendor workshop ­.

Communication And The Arts

Course work within Communications Arts and Enviromental Design