Mike Brattoli has over 35 years experience in new product development, quality engineering, project management and development, and engineering supervision in a variety of industries, from aerospace to faucets. As the Lead CAD Designer/PLM Administrator for Moen, Incorporated, he is responsible for all global aspects of CAD software/hardware installations as well as coordinating the activities of Moen’s internal and external user communities, documenting and enforcing best practices, and providing mentoring and training as required. Mr. Brattoli currently holds multiple U.S. patents, both utility and design. He began using Pro/ENGINEER® with release 11, and has over 25 years experience using the software. He has been chosen as a presenter at numerous International PTC/User Conferences (1997, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017) focusing on areas relating to CAD training, Surfacing, Reverse Engineering, Rendering, Windchill, and Assembly functionality using Pro/ENGINEER® and Creo Parametric®. Mr. Brattoli has been a Steering Group member of the PTC/USER Industrial Design Technical Committee (responsible for the surfacing, reverse engineering, and rendering modules) since 1996, and is the President of the Northern Ohio PTC/USER regional user Group (NOPUG). He also served on the PTC/USER board of directors in 2016 as the Director of Regional User Groups for the organization. As an adjunct professor he has been teaching Pro/ENGINEER® and Creo Parametric® at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, OH since the fall of 1996, beginning with release 15 of the software. Mr. Brattoli is the author of Presenting Creo Parametric 5.0, a training manual on the use of Creo Parametric® software. He has also authored Pro/ENGINEER® and Creo Parametric® training manuals covering releases Wildfire 5.0 through Creo 5.0 of the application. He has participated in numerous articles for Design News, Machine Design, Industry Week, and other magazines and industry periodicals on various subjects related to Creo Parametric® and Pro/ENGINEER®.