Mechanical watches do not tolerate approximation. Their precision is born from alignment, tension, and the disciplined interaction of dozens of components, each dependent on the next. When one gear drifts out of tolerance, the watch rarely stops. Instead, it loses accuracy slowly and quietly, until time itself can no longer be trusted.
Ovidiu Titei understands this kind of failure intimately. Outside of work, he restores mechanical watches by hand. He disassembles movements down to their smallest parts, cleans and calibrates each component, and reassembles systems designed to operate with microscopic precision. He studies patterns of wear and failure, corrects the movement, and only replaces parts when absolutely necessary.
That same relationship with time, patience, and cause and effect defines Ovidiu’s work as a Senior Technical Consultant at SolidCAD. He supports organizations using Autodesk AutoCAD, AutoCAD Mechanical, Inventor, Vault, and connected mechanical design workflows. His work is not simply about making software run. It is about ensuring that engineering environments remain reliable as organizations scale, modernize, and standardize.
Ovidiu completed his mechanical engineering degree in Brașov, Romania, in the early nineteen nineties, studying in an academic environment grounded in classical mechanics, materials science, and manufacturing principles. Precision was not framed as a preference. It was framed as survival. Designs either worked or they failed. Calculations were either correct or they were dangerous.
At home, that discipline was reinforced by his father, an engineer in water and forestry who spent his career working across Romania’s forests and mountains. His father operated within natural systems where small interventions produced long-term consequences, and where patience mattered as much as knowledge. From an early age, Ovidiu learned that lasting results were rarely immediate and that careless adjustments always revealed themselves over time.
While his father explored landscapes, Ovidiu gravitated toward machines, factories, and production environments. They were different domains, but they shared the same logic: every system had structure, every component mattered, and nothing existed in isolation.
Political and economic change later brought Ovidiu to France, where he spent several years studying economic sciences in Paris. The shift broadened his understanding of systems beyond engineering alone. He began to see how organizations function, how decisions propagate, and how technical choices intersect with business realities.
When Ovidiu later immigrated to Canada and settled in Montreal, he arrived with a rare combination of mechanical discipline and systems-level perspective.
Ovidiu’s consulting career began with technical training mandates and enterprise support roles across colleges, manufacturers, and engineering firms. He taught engineers how to use Autodesk tools, rebuilt corrupted environments, and troubleshot broken installations long before cloud platforms and subscription models became standard.
Over time, Ovidiu noticed a pattern: most software problems were not software problems at all. They were process problems wearing technical disguises. He learned that fixing what was visible often solved only part of the issue. True reliability required understanding the context behind the tools.
These engagements eventually led him to SolidCAD through a series of organizational changes, including Bosscom and Cansel. Ovidiu did not chase titles or companies. He stayed where complexity lived and where his discipline could make a difference.
Today, Ovidiu supports clients across a wide range of mechanical CAD and data management environments, including AutoCAD, AutoCAD Mechanical, Autodesk Inventor, and Autodesk Vault. His work includes customization, template management, environment configuration, deployment packaging, and version-to-version migration, all with a focus on enterprise-grade reliability.
Clients often approach Ovidiu with narrowly defined requests: fix a broken connection, migrate a customization, restore lost settings after an IT reimage. Ovidiu resolves the immediate problem. Then he looks deeper.
For example, when a client requested migration of AutoCAD customizations across offices in Quebec and Ontario, a simple file transfer would have satisfied the request. Instead, Ovidiu analyzed how machines were provisioned, how Autodesk products were deployed, and how IT teams rebuilt systems. He recognized that every reinstall recreated the same manual effort and introduced risk.
Rather than delivering only migrated files, he engineered a standardized deployment mechanism that included centralized configuration packages, consistent folder structures, scripted deployment sequences, and step-by-step documentation. The result was an environment that could be redeployed consistently with minimal manual intervention. A migration became a sustainable system.
Like a clockmaker correcting the movement rather than polishing the hands, Ovidiu focuses on what actually keeps time.
Many organizations use only a fraction of the Autodesk tools included in their subscriptions. Ovidiu makes a point of showing clients what they already have. He demonstrates how Raster Design can recover vector data from scanned drawings. He shows how Vault can centralize and control design data instead of relying on shared drives. He explains how automation tools and configuration options can eliminate repetitive tasks.
His role is not to push sales. It is to reveal capability and help teams unlock value in what they already own.
Ovidiu assumes that environments will change. Software will be upgraded. Hardware will be replaced. Staff will turn over. IT policies will evolve.
His solutions are built around these realities. He designs workflows that survive upgrades, minimize dependency on individual expertise, and reduce operational risk. He builds documentation that IT teams can follow. He packages configurations so environments can be restored without tribal knowledge.
Much of this work happens quietly, often at night and sometimes across time zones. Always with the goal of preventing future breakdowns.
“I do not count hours,” Ovidiu says. “I count whether it works.”
At home, Ovidiu returns to mechanical watch restoration, working with systems where errors cannot be hidden. A watch either keeps accurate time or it does not. That clarity mirrors his professional standard. Technology does not need to be flashy. It needs to be dependable.
Every year, Ovidiu returns to Romania to visit family and reconnect with his roots. It is a reminder that experience compounds and that long-term thinking matters.
Ovidiu brings together mechanical engineering discipline, decades of Autodesk expertise, and a deep understanding of enterprise engineering environments. He does not chase novelty. He does not oversell features. He builds reliability.
For SolidCAD clients, Ovidiu Titei is not simply solving technical problems. He is maintaining the movement of their engineering systems so they keep time long after implementation.
In the end, Ovidiu’s work resembles the quiet discipline of the systems he loves most. Nothing about it is loud. Nothing about it is theatrical. Yet, like a well-oiled machine or a finely tuned movement, everything depends on it. Time keeps passing. Engineers keep designing. Organizations keep building. Because somewhere in the background, someone is ensuring that the movement remains true, the tolerances remain tight, and the system continues to keep honest time. For Ovidiu Titei, precision is not a momentary achievement. It is a practice. And like any great machine, it is maintained one careful adjustment at a time.
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