D. Alex Johnson Resume |
Education |
1975 – 1979 Pennsylvania State University, University Park,
Pennsylvania
BS Forest Science |
Professional experience |
2000-2004 Daggett Enterprises Inc.
Farmington, New Mexico
Professional Land Surveyor, Survey Manager
- Professionally responsible for activities of 5 crew survey firm.
Responsible for developing plan to perform land surveys, review
and certification of plats and descriptions. Implemented use of
Arcview 8.3 in conjunction with project planning for route surveys
on interstate utility work. Authored company procedures to merge
position data from conventional and GPS survey observations, with
vector and rastar data from public and private sources, for the
purpose of transportation planning, environmental permitting,
construction planning, land acquisition planning, and utility
system modeling. During this period developed a working knowledge
of Datums, Projections, mapping grade and survey grade data collection
schemes, establishing high order networks based on static GPS
phase observations.
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1990 - 2000 Daggett Surveys, Daggett Inc., Daggett Enterprises
Inc.
Farmington, New Mexico
Party Chief, Survey Supervisor
- Professional survey firm. Performed surveys to establish oil
and gas lease boundaries and acquire easement and right of way
for energy transportation systems in NW New Mexico and SW Colorado.
Projects also included layout work for Bureau of Reclamation.
- Duties included primary contact with clients, evaluation of
scope and cost elements, authoring bids and proposals, design
of project plans of survey, research of legal and survey control
sources, scheduling and direction of field crews, evaluation of
both GPS and conventionally observed data, calculations and set
up for drafting, review of plat and description language, archive
of observations, monumentation, and geographic control networks.
- Technical: Trimble type GPS equipment, including 4000, 4400,
4700 receivers, TSC1 v7.5 controllers, TGO v1.62 for Static, CORS
RINEX, and RTK processing of GPS observations. Computer skills
include Eagle Point survey suite running on Autocad or Intellicad
platforms. Implented the use of Arcview for project parcel research
and database, control network database, project map generation
and project completion database.
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1987 - 1990 Mountain States Surveys
Salt Lake City, Utah
Party Chief, CAD operator
- Survey firm performed a variety of boundary and subdivision
work in urban and rural settings. Projects included ALTA surveys,
right of way establishment for utilities, subdivision design and
monumentation, and QC survey contract for the Corps of Engineers
for certification of construction elements of missile silo.
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1986 - 1987 Alpentech Inc.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Party Chief
- Engineering firm consulted on the design and construction of
chairlifts, tram and railway structures. In addition to design
study and layout surveying, duties also included retracement of
mineral lease and patent boundaries for ski area development.
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1983 - 1986 CRS Surveyors and Engineers
Salt Lake City, Utah
Instrument man, Party Chief
- This consulting engineering firm was primarily engaged in municipal
water and sewerage design and construction, as well as subdivision
development.
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1979 - 1983 U.S. Forest Service
Uinta National Forest and Manti-LaSal National Forest, Utah
Survey Aid, Survey Technician, Party Chief, Chief of Parties
- Performed design study and layout surveys for engineering department
of National Forest. Cadastral work included determination of national
forest boundaries.
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Certifications |
- Colorado Professional Land Surveyor #33648
- Arizona Professional Registered Land Surveyor #38008
- New Mexico Professional Land Surveyor #14827
- Utah Professional Land Surveyor #174617
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Member |
- American Congress of Surveying and Mapping
- New Mexico Professional Land Surveyors
- Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado
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