This is a critical question.
You must know at least one CAD software program, since no one has used a pencil and eraser in the last 30 years.
If you are in Tulsa, I assume you do piping design. Can you use PRO/E Piping?
Even if his skills are in a different discipline, he might try to get a job as final drafter to draft plans after the designer is done with it which frees up the designer to start a new project.
I do AutoCAD. I have some training in Inventor. In fact I was the one who talked my company into integrating Inventor into our system.
You should address the question to Acad1228.
I know AutoCAD and some Inventor, but I cam learn anything. We did a little piping, but mostly we designed and detailed oil derricks.