NEW YORK – March 14, 2012 – Architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry consultant, Microdesk, was named Autodesk North American Partner of the Year for FY12, a top honor in Autodesk’s prestigious Platinum Club awards program. The award was presented at Autodesk’s One Team Conference, an annual sales and leadership event held in Las Vegas, NV, that brings together Autodesk employees and partners from around the world. The award recognizes Microdesk for its outstanding achievements in delivering world-class service and technical expertise to their customers throughout fiscal year 2012.

“Microdesk is honored to receive this level of recognition from Autodesk,” said Mike DeLacey, president of Microdesk. “We pride ourselves on the caliber of our team and quality of our consulting services focused on assisting clients with making the transition to Building Information Modeling and improving the way the industry designs and maintains our nation’s buildings and infrastructure.”

Autodesk Platinum Club recognizes channel partners from around the world who have excelled in categories such as sales, growth and other key measures of success over the past year. The Platinum Club this year honored channel partners who were the leading commercial education, government or distribution partners in their regions.

"We have enjoyed a long-standing relationship with Microdesk and are very happy to see them named Partner of the Year," said Bill Griffin, vice president of Worldwide Channel Sales at Autodesk. "Their team has gone above and beyond to implement best practices in solution selling and consulting, and has made customer satisfaction their number one priority. Under Mike Delacey's leadership, the Microdesk team has become a shining example of what it means to be a trusted advisor and true value-added reseller."
Autodesk’s global channel partner network includes more than 1,900 partners, all of whom support customers across a number of industries, such as architecture, engineering and construction; manufacturing; automotive; utilities and government; telecommunications; games; television and film.

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Microdesk is a design technology consultancy that combines the leading software tools from Autodesk, Oracle, Google, Adobe and ESRI, with the latest methods, including Building Information Modeling and Virtual Design & Construction, to provide business and technology consulting services to help firms successfully plan, design, build and operate land and buildings. Microdesk is a leading Autodesk Gold and Oracle Gold partner, a member of the Autodesk and ESRI Developer Networks, and operates Autodesk and Google Authorized Training Centers (ATC) at 12 offices nationwide. For more information, visit www.microdesk.com.

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