Although I was born here and spent most of my life here in the valley, I graduated high school in New Mexico.  While there, I completed a course at the Albuquerque Technical-Vocational Institute in the Drafting and Surveying program.  It was there I leaned the skills of creating drawings and basic Land Surveying.  Although the drafting was with pen/pencil and paper, the principals behind creating quality legible drawings are the same using AutoCAD.

After completing the course, I moved back to Phoenix in 1977 and began my career as a Land Surveyor.  In 1982 I passed a course at Phoenix College based on Brown's Boundary Control & Legal Principals.  Most of the next 21 years my work was as a Survey Crew Chief.  My responsibilities included a variety of projects including Boundary Surveys, Alta Surveys, Topographic Surveys, Residential Construction Surveying, Commercial Construction Surveying and several projects for the US Army Corps of Engineers.

In the fall of 1998, I began working in the office as a Survey Tech and CAD-Tech. In that same year I became a Registered Land Surveyor.

Over the next few years my interest in learning the designing aspects increased and I was given more opportunities in that area.  My planning experience began in 1999 with the responsibility for the preliminary design of three subdivisions and, the majority of the work for the construction drawings.  My work continued in civil designing learning the aspects of residential construction, apartments and condominium site designing.

In 2004 I was given an offer to become a full time Civil Designer, which I accepted.  Besides the Civil Design projects, my responsibilities included the creation of Final Plats and reviewing all of the  Final Plats for the office.  A recession caused a reduction of 80% of the company, including myself.  Shortly after my lay-off, a rush order came in from a client.  Because of my abilities to complete the design and create the construction drawings quickly and accurately, I was called back as a subcontractor to meet the short deadline.  That was the beginning of Advanced Civil Design, PLLC.

In evaluating the companies request for my services, it was evident that I could provide the bulk of the construction drawing needs for a lower cost than an internal staff.  Because of my attitude about my work being done in as reasonable of a time as possible, my portion of the work could be completed faster than the average person.  It did not take too much time to realize that faster service at a lower cost would be easy to market as long as it maintained quality.  It was obvious to me that creating the drawings using the methods/standards of the client would be very important.  It would not be useful to have drawings provided which are completely unfamiliar.  I feel confident that I can provide a valuable and cost effective service to any company creating residential subdivisions.