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Ansel Mai

Markham

Summary

I am well-rounded and competent, and dependable professional, with over 9 years’ experience on façade design, and more than 5 years’ on leadership. My knowledge, experience and skills allow me to approach, develop, and deliver construction projects, keeping them on budget and schedule, meeting customer expectations, and improving the company’s processes. The activities I have been involved with have made me a resilient professional, detail-oriented, environmentally aware, and with a taste for challenges.


Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Drafting Supervisor

Toro Aluminum – Comfab
02.2022 - 04.2025
  • Accountable for successful project delivery of +25 projects/year in different stages, from pre-drafting coordination and planning to client submission & approval, material take-offs to fabrication drawings, and site support during installation.
  • Create weekly drafting schedule and quarterly objectives, investigate team performance and capacity aligned with company objectives.
  • Track project performance including KPIs (baseline vs. actual project hours and project milestone dates).
  • Interview and hire team member.
  • Provide coaching through monthly 1 on 1 meeting.
  • Monitor team performance as well as individual members, investigate root cause whenever performance is lacking, and develop performance improvement, provide learning/training sessions.
  • Explore career trajectory with all team members, ensure alignment of their tasks and career goals, and track trajectory progress.
  • Review project documents through different phases including shop drawing internal reviews, returned submission drawings, material take-offs, and fabrication drawings.
  • Provide design assistance to all team members whenever required for non-typical details.
  • Propose constructable and cost-effective design to clients and architects.
  • Review libraries and ensure they adhere to design and standards.
  • Continuously evaluate current processes and identify bottlenecks and address them by revising process after collaborating with internal stakeholders affected.
  • Prioritize process documentation and generating SOPs (standard operating procedures) to ensure visibility and alignment of team procedures and standards.
  • Participate & lead meetings with department team as well as internal stakeholders.
  • Act as liaison between drafting department and internal consultants such as engineering, building envelope, project managers and site supers.
  • QC and file route cause of mistake, host learning session meeting.

Job Captain/Senior Job Captain

Toro Aluminum – Comfab
12.2020 - 01.2022
  • Led BIM specialists through all project phases including shop drawings, material take-offs and fabrication releases, ensured meeting deadlines while maintaining high quality.
  • Reviewed received construction drawings including architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical and ID drawings.
  • Prepared and/or set up project folder and detailing tracker.
  • Reviewed and commented on shop drawings, material take-offs and fabrication drawings and material take off.
  • Monitored projects status, ensured meeting deadline.
  • Provided support and motivation to BIM specialists for high quality shop drawings and their succeed in career goals.
  • Assisted manager to monitor team performance.
  • Provided valuable input for team improvement such as hosting learning sessions, creating work instructions and checklists.
  • Managed team meeting when manager is out of office.
  • Assisted release coordinators and plant for production schedules.
  • Participated and led meetings with department team and internal stakeholders.
  • Collaborated with engineers and building envelopes to standardize structural and building envelope design.
  • Maintained stick-built curtain wall anchoring information and typical information templates.
  • Created signage bracket details and/or drawing set.
  • Created curtain wall shop drawing set if the project is in urgency.

Drafter/Senior Drafter

Toro Aluminum
04.2016 - 11.2020
  • Guided junior drafter and/or new hires for processing and generating curtain wall shop drawings.
  • Assisted other drafter for generating curtain wall shop drawings, ensured meeting deadline.
  • Reviewed and commented on other drafter’s curtain wall shop drawings.
  • Reviewed received Architectural, Slab edge, Structural, Mechanical and Electrical drawings.
  • Coordinated with Estimator to confirm curtain wall scope of work.
  • Prepared curtain wall setback drawings.
  • Prepared curtain wall shop drawing set including such floor plans, elevations, and details.
  • Revised shop drawings as per comments from internal consultants such as engineering, building envelope.
  • Revised shop drawings as per site instructions and/or site conditions.
  • Collaborated with supplier for new dies to meet architectural design intents.
  • Prepared as-built drawings.

Education

College Advanced Diploma - Civil Engineering Technology

Seneca College
04-2015

Skills

  • Facade Design
  • Team Leadership
  • Problem Solving
  • People Development
  • Process Development
  • Construction Management
  • Material estimation
  • Engineering design

SOFTWARE

  • Bluebeam Revu
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • MS Project
  • MS Offices
  • Revit

Languages

English
Professional Working
MANDARIN
Native or Bilingual
CANTONESE
Native or Bilingual

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Timeline

Drafting Supervisor

Toro Aluminum – Comfab
02.2022 - 04.2025

Job Captain/Senior Job Captain

Toro Aluminum – Comfab
12.2020 - 01.2022

Drafter/Senior Drafter

Toro Aluminum
04.2016 - 11.2020

College Advanced Diploma - Civil Engineering Technology

Seneca College

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