John Clarke

1969 South Downing St., Denver CO 80210

cell: 303-625-3253
jcf48280@westpost.net
CAREER OBJECTIVE seeking a Land Surveying position
CERTIFICATIONS Professional Land Surveyor, #38204, State of Colorado; P
rofessional Land Surveyor, #45759, State of Arizona
CURRENTLY (SINCE 10-09) while working at the United States Postal Service as a T
emporary Mail Carrier, I have: a) studied, sat for and passed the Colorado State
Specific exam for Land Surveyors. b) obtained training on AutoCad Civil 3D 2010
.
WORK HISTORY
Nolte Associates, 8000 So. Chester St., Suite 200, Centennial CO 80112, ph: 303-
220-6400, from 10-08 to 10-09, position: senior surveyor, supervisor: Shawn Clar
ke
supervising and directing my field crew and 1-2 other crews performing utility,
building, roadway, railroad and site grading layout/staking and certifications;
perpetuation of site control; daily meetings with Construction Management team a
nd subcontractors, and daily briefing with my Project Manager; daily downloads o
f GPS data: locations, staking results and certifications.
Accomplishments:
a) Vestas wind turbine manufacturing plant project, where I was Lead Surveyor, w
as completed 3 months ahead of schedule, providing Nolte a higher overall profit
margin. I received a "spot bonus" for my work on this project.
b) As 1 of 2 Party Chiefs assigned to a 4 month ElPaso Gas location and monument
ation project, we finished 3 weeks early, again providing Nolte with additional
profit. I received another "spot bonus" for this project.
c) I learned and performed NGS/OPUS observations and adjustments, at very remote
project sites where we needed horizontal and vertical control overnight.
d) I learned then used Hixon/Leicas SmartNet/SpiderNet VRS, allowing us to perfo
rm GPS operations without the need for a base station and established local site
control.
Lyon Engineering & Development, 3623 Crossings Dr., Prescott AZ 86305, ph: 928-7
76-1750, from 10-03 to 7-08, position: project manager, supervisor: Scott Lyon
supervising, training and directing 1 technician working under me, and planning
and directing field surveys and briefing crews; client consultations to determin
e what surveying services they needed; preliminary research prior to bidding or
writing up proposals, and inspection of proposed project sites; contract or prop
osals written up, and approved by client prior to commencement of work; research
of County records, City records, AZ DOT, GLO/BLM plats, notes and Mineral Surve
ys, Forest Service surveys and contacting local surveyors; constructing ideals i
n CAD for field search, and providing a field packet of maps, plats, tie sheets,
site control, etc., for the Party Chiefs. Meeting with field crew to discuss pr
oject and any anticipated problems or special circumstances; analyzing record in
formation and field locations in CAD, to determine boundaries; preparing survey
drawings or legal descriptions based on survey standards, City, County or State
laws/statutes/ordinances/regulations; seal and certify all CAD drawings, calcula
tions and description work; recordation of these drawings or descriptions at the
County, and exporting CAD files into Microstation for our engineers design proj
ects.
For work on:
residential, commercial and condominium subdivision plats; ALTA/ACSM Land Title
Surveys; Record of Surveys, revised property descriptions, section subdivision,
boundary and location details; property and easement descriptions; topographic s
urveys/maps; construction staking calculations.
Accomplishments:
a) I was the first full-time, survey department office Project Manager at Lyon.
I established procedures for handling 10-20 projects at a time, organized the pr
iority of projects, kept clients and engineers informed on project progress and
completed projects on time. This allowed the owner, the Chief Engineer and mysel
f, to bid on survey services not previously provided at Lyon Engineering.
b) When the survey office workload became too heavy for one person, I was given
a technician without any experience in office work, drafting, calculations, lega
l descriptions or survey law. I trained this person in all aspects while he work
ed on projects. Within a year and a half, he became a valuable asset to our oper
ation and freed me up so I could handle more of the supervisory, research and co
ntract work.
c) We contracted with Pacific-Holt to develop property outside of Holbrook, Nava
jo County, in the northeastern part of Arizona. We surveyed sections 4, 33 and 3
4, T.18N., R.20E., and section 32, T.18N., R.21E. Numerous problems with existin
g surveys, defective property descriptions and lost and obliterated PLS corners
existed, in addition to determining Interstate 40 right of way. These projects w
ere outside the Prescott/Yavapai County area, outside my familiar surroundings y
et a good learning experience for me, performing large scale surveys in an unkno
wn region.
d) A cooperative venture between our client, Prescott National Forest and Yavapa
i County was to survey 1.5 miles of Senator Highway in sections 35 and 36, T.12.
5N., R.2W., to convey to the County as dedicated right of way. This portion of t
he Highway meandered through 14 Mineral Surveys with an additional 11 to determi
ne boundaries. There were gaps and overlaps and very little monumentation on the
ground. The final product was a 17 page centerline description for use in a doc
ument drawn up by Yavapai County Right of Way Department.
Yavapai Surveying, 806 Valley St., Prescott AZ 86305, ph: 928-772-6842, from 4-0
3 to 10-03, position: office/project manager, supervisor: Timothy Hopps, owner
Client consultation, proposals, setting up projects, scheduling the crew, resear
ching properties, tracking projects, CAD drafting, writing property and easement
descriptions, construction staking calculations, billing and recording surveys
at the County Recorders Office.
Hennepin County Surveyors Office, 300 So. 6th St., Minneapolis MN 55487, ph: 612
-348-3131, from 1-86 to 4-03, position: principal engineering technician, superv
isor: Phillip Nelson
As a Party Chief of a 2-3 person field crew, I was responsible for:
safety of crew and maintenance/calibration of all field equipment, including Geo
dimeter total stations and Trimble GPS units; planning, directing and supervisin
g of large scale (from 1 week to many months long projects) surveys, tracking pr
ojects and coordinating with supervisors, contractors and Public Works personnel
; all field research of subject and adjoining properties, or sections of land to
be surveyed, from public records, BLM plats and notes or private surveyors info
rmation, prior to reconnaissance and location work in the field; setting up proj
ects in CAD, researching available site control (tied into the PLS system or NGS
) and supervising downloads of field data each day; maintenance of PLS corners:
determining correct monument position based on corner ties, NAD83/Hennepin Count
y Coordinate System, updating tie sheets, installing PLS corners in the ground,
traversing, calculations in CAD and field to restore lost or obliterated corners
; reports following a restoration explaining what work was done, and conclusions
why and how lost corners were restored.
As the Lead Worker in the Analysis Unit (CAD drafting and calculations), I was r
esponsible for:
setting up new projects and briefing Party Chiefs prior to fieldwork; supervisin
g CAD drafting and calculations of 2-3 technicians, and college interns; perform
ing CAD drafting and calculations on my own projects; final review of completed
projects, reports and research packets, with technician and supervisor; exportin
g files to contractors, Public Works Dept. or State of Minnesota; tracking and e
ntering completed projects into database (Esri ArcView).
Accomplishments:
a) I trained: all staff members on the use of Geodimeter total stations and our
data collection system; field staff on Trimble 5700 GPS system.
b) I was part of a team that: developed our data collection system with Geodimet
er total stations; took outside training, then trained staff on Terramodel CAD s
oftware. Our office was a "beta site" for modules within Terramodel; features we
had asked for such as least squares adjustment and coordinate conversion.
c) I was one of three Party Chiefs who performed a "resurvey" of all 2500+ PLS c
orners within the County, using GPS static observations and traversing where tre
e cover made GPS work not feasible.
EDUCATION Hennepin Technical College, Eden Prairie MN: Architectural Drafting a
nd Design; Civil Technology (land surveying)
Dunwoody Industrial Institute, Minneapolis MN: Public La
nd Survey System, Boundary Control and Legal Principles, Legal Descriptions
EQUIPMENT/SOFTWARE USED: Trimble 4800/5700/5800 GPS; Trimble (robotic), Geodimet
er, Wild and Leica total stations; Trimble/Terramodel CAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D; Mic
rostation V8; Esri Arcview GIS; HP-48/TDS Survey