Colorado EIT | Physics Ph.D. candidate, UCCS | Contract electrical and BIM design
Electrical engineer with more than eight years of power, lighting, and low-voltage design for DoE, government, commercial, and industrial facilities, now a full-time Ph.D. candidate in physics with the PE Power exam scheduled for this winter. I take on contract electrical design and BIM production on my own licensed AutoCAD and Revit seat, with cloud-shared Revit models so your team sees the work as it happens.
This page is the personal hub for Paul Udehn: the resume, the kind of work I take on, and the clearest way to contact me without exposing my personal cell number.
I produce design packages for low- and medium-voltage power, lighting and controls, grounding, lightning protection, telecom, security, fire alarm, and mass notification systems. My background includes NEC, UFC, TIA, BICSI, ICS-705, ASHRAE, ANSI, and Title 24 design constraints.
I build Revit, AutoCAD, Excel, and web workflows that move information through models, schedules, studies, and cost workbooks. The goal is simple: fewer manual edits, cleaner coordination, and more engineering time spent on decisions.
Available for targeted consulting, fixed-scope deliverables, design recovery work, and longer contract support.
Permit-ready plans, design packages, panel schedules, one-lines, calculations, and technical coordination for commercial, industrial, government, and residential projects.
Mission-critical and secure-facility work, nuclear-adjacent support, complex coordination studies, and high-consequence design cleanup where experience matters.
Defined packages such as facility drawing sets, Revit/AutoCAD automation, study reports, simulation work, or calculation and analysis deliverables. Work runs on my own licensed AutoCAD and Revit seat, shared through the cloud so your team can follow the model live.
Three tracks, in this order: doctoral research, professional licensure, and contract design that keeps the engineering sharp.
Graduate study and research in physics at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs in the combined M.S./Ph.D. program, with coursework that includes nonlinear dynamics and chaos. The same habits that make a good design engineer, careful models and checked numbers, carry straight over.
Licensed Engineer in Training in Colorado with the NCEES PE Power exam scheduled over winter break. Every other requirement for the license is already complete, backed by more than eight years of design-package experience across DoE, government, commercial, and industrial facilities.
Electrical design and BIM production delivered on a fully licensed AutoCAD and Revit seat with cloud worksharing, so a firm can hand me a scope, watch the model progress, and receive coordinated sheets without onboarding a seat of its own.
I give the best of what I build away. If the free version of something is excellent, anything worth paying for has to be better still, and everyone ends up with more. The work should speak before any invoice does.
Live magnetism and heat simulations on my own engine, a CAD sketcher that exports clean DXF, table games, and research notes at lowkeyfree.com. Free with an account, shareable under CC BY 4.0, and nothing you make is stored on the server.
A free PDF reader and markup tool with a design layer: draw a shape on a drawing, give it a depth, and export true 3-D solids (STEP for mechanical CAD, IFC for BIM) with exact unit conversions from building scale down to nanometers. Coming to phones, desktops, and browsers.
Free should be the real thing, not a trial with a watermark. When the free tools are this good, only work that is better than them is worth selling, and that is the bar I hold myself to.
Electrical design experience across DoE, government, commercial, telecom, lighting, industrial, and software-enabled engineering environments.
Full-time graduate study and research in the combined M.S./Ph.D. physics program, alongside the NCEES PE Power exam this winter and contract electrical and BIM design work.
Supported DoE mission-critical facilities, small modular reactor design, nuclear facility design, decommissioning facilities, and industrial/manufacturing clients. Developed Revit standards and automation workflows that improved production quality and coordination. Left in July 2026 to pursue graduate study full time.
Founded and ran a small engineering and product company focused on AI-assisted engineering workflows, software, consumer electronics concepts, and energy sustainability. Stepped away in 2026 to pursue doctoral research full time; the company's revenue work is paused while I study.
Delivered government, commercial, and industrial electrical design across low/medium-voltage power, lighting, grounding, telecom, security, access control, and fire alarm/mass notification systems while managing more than a dozen active projects.
Telecommunications design, lighting audits, field review, production support, and early project-delivery experience that became the base for later electrical engineering work.
Resume and Contact
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