ASPS Nominations Notice

ASPS President, Tom Webb, appointed a Nomination Committee, chaired by John Thornton (other committee members were Marie Dugan, Ken Cotter, and Paul Davis), who has submitted the following list of candidates for ASPS Officers and Directors for the 2008-2009 Election.

President:                      Roger Gilley of Baxter County
President Elect:              Lanny Beavers of Garland County
Immediate Past Pres.:     Tom Webb of Washington County
Vice Presdient:               Dave Garza of Pope County or Arnold Knox of Baxter County
Secretary/Treasurer:        Charlie Storey of Garland County
Director Dist. 1:               Daryl Doyal of Washington County or Jay Young of Washington County
Director Dist. 2:               Michael Daniels of Craighead Co. or Cheyenne Jankowski of Marion Co.
Director Dist. 5:              John Burton of Pulaski County or Mark Ashley of Conway County
NSPS Governor:             Steve Corley of Pulaski County

Pursuant to the ASPS Bylaws, any ten (10) voting members of ASPS may submit in writing to the Secretary/Treasurer additional nominees for the positions listed above.  If they are eligible and their nominations are accompanied by a statement from them that they are willing to be candidates, their names shall be placed on the ballot.  Any additional nominees must be submitted before February 14, 2008.  A ballot will be mailed to you by February 26, 2008.  You will be asked to vote for the Officers and the Director in your district only.

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FOR PRESIDENT:

    Roger Gilley, PLS

Roger Gilley is a principal in Consolidated Land Services, Inc. and serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the Corporation. He is the project manager for the governmental surveys the company performs and handles the rural residential subdivision surveys in Baxter County . Roger has been licensed as a Professional Land Surveyor in Arkansas since 1979 and obtained his Missouri LS in 1986. He is also licensed as a Designated Representative for the Arkansas Department of Health to perform on-site septic system designs.  

Roger graduated from Yellville-Summit High School in 1972. His education includes the U.S. Army Defense Mapping School construction surveying course, 1976 and the ICS Land Surveying Program which he completed in 1979. Since 1975, Roger has attended many Arkansas and Missouri surveying conferences and workshops.  

In addition to ASPS membership, he is an active member of the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors, and belongs to ACSM/NSPS. Roger is a past District Director of ASPS.  

Roger is married to Shawn. They have three children: a daughter, Lori , 24, who resides in Rogers ; son, Paige, 11; and another son, Gabriel, 5. Roger is a resident of Gassville. Consolidated Land Services is located in Mountain Home. He is a member of  the Fellowship Bible Church of Mountain Home. He retired from the U.S. Army Reserve in 2001 with the rank of Command Sergeant Major after 27 years of service.

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FOR IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT:

    Tom Webb, PLS

Tom Webb is a professional surveyor registered in Arkansas , Kansas , Oklahoma , Missouri , and Mississippi . In 1967, after serving a four year enlistment in the US Marine Corps, Tom began his surveying career as a chain man/brush cutter for a small surveying firm in Jackson , Mississippi . He earned his BA degree from Ole Miss and attended Law School at the University of Arkansas for 2 years.  In 1978 he began his 26 year association McGoodwin, Williams, and Yates, consulting engineers in Fayetteville as a surveying and mapping professional.  He is currently employed with Crafton, Tull & Associates.

Tom has served on the Arkansas Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors and the State Land Information Board. He has published a number of articles in ASPS publications and one appeared in Professional Surveyor magazine last year. In 1990 and 91 he served as ASPS District 1 Director.

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FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT:

    Lanny Beavers, PLS

Lanny has been the District 3 Director for ASPS since 2002.  Lanny is the Survey Manager for Garver Engineers in Little Rock , Arkansas .  His diverse work includes Survey Department management for 5 crews in Little Rock for boundary and topographic surveys for various clients.  

He is licensed as a Professional Land Surveyor in Arkansas and Mississippi .

Lanny was the one of the on site experts for the Louisiana Purchase documentary for AETN in 2003. 

Mr. Beavers and his wife Sherry have been married for 21 years and reside in Hot Springs Village , Ar.  His major hobbies include radio broadcasting, website design and owns two of the largest sports websites in Arkansas.

 

FOR VICE PRESIDENT:

  Joel David Garza, PLS

David is has been married 24 years and has grown 3 children. The oldest, Melissa, is going back to Irag with the Arkansas National Guard for a second term. David has lived in Russellville for 16 years and worked in the engineering/surveying field for 28 years in various states which include Texas, Nevada, Kansas, and Arkansas. "As the current Director for District 1 I have enjoyed representing the area and look forward to continuing being a part of ASPS in any opportunity". David is currently working for a new firm in Russellville EHB Engineering (formerly Ennis Engineering).

 

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  Arnold Knox, PLS

Arnold Knox is currently employed at Yelcot Telephone Company and Consolidated Land Services in Mountain Home.  Arnold has 13 years of experience in surveying and engineering, spanning from government surveys, residential surveys, and subdivision layout and design. 

Arnold is a 1989 graduate of Flippin High School and a 1994 graduate of the University of Arkansas with a Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering.  He is a past Director of District 2 and is a member of the Mountain Home Rotary Club.

He has been married to Laura for 7 years and they have two sons, Billy 5 and Steven 3.  Arnold is a resident of Mountain Home and is a member of the First United Methodist Church.

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FOR DIRECTOR DISTRICT 1:

   Jay Young, PLS

A little about myself:  I am happily married to my wife of 15 years, and I have two sons ages 14 and 12.  I am the manager of the Fayetteville office of Development Consultants, Inc. and I am a Sergeant First Class in the Army Reserve as a member of the 416^th ENCOM USAFEG-SW Facility Engineer Team 13 in Little Rock.  I began my surveying career in 1994 in the Wyoming Army National Guard.  The Guard sent me to school at Ft. Leonard Wood to learn surveying, drafting, and soils analysis as a Technical Engineering Specialist.  I found I had a knack for surveying and graduated as honor graduate of my class.  Upon returning to Wyoming in the summer of 1995 I immediately applied for a survey crewmember position and was hired by Benchmark of Torrington.  I quickly moved to the position of Party Chief and I took night classes in surveying each semester to further my knowledge for the next 4 years.  In 1999 I moved to Arkansas to be closer to my Dad.  I was hired as a Party Chief for the Larkin Group in Russellville, and then for Hight Surveying in Bigelow when Larkin Group closed their doors in January 2000.  While working for Bart Hight, I received my LSIT in 2000 and my PLS in 2001.  Just as I got licensed, Development Consultants, Inc in Little Rock was looking for a licensed surveyor to run their survey department.  I was hired and began working for them in January 2002.  While working there, I resumed my night classes in surveying and earned both a Land Survey Certificate and my Associates Degree.  I also expanded my reach as a professional surveyor by getting licensed in Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, and Oklahoma.  I took a military leave of absence from December 2003 thru March 2005 to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom as a Platoon Sergeant of a Combat Engineer Company.  Upon my return from Iraq, I was offered the opportunity to open a new office for Development Consultants, Inc in Fayetteville.  I am now preparing to take the professional licensing exam for Kansas this spring, and also preparing to become a Certified Federal Surveyor (CFedS) early this summer.

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  Daryl Doyal, PLS

I began surveying as a summer job in 1973. Some highlights in my surveying career include:

Three hundred mile traverse and cross-section of the Coosa River, setting monuments every 500 feet on each bank from Montgomery, AL. to Gadsden, AL. ending the traverse on a mountain top using a six foot long distance meter to take a fourteen mile shot to a pyramid of 60 prisms. This was a river navigability study for the U.S. Corps of Engineers. This took teams of surveyors for which I was the liaison between the contractor and Corp.

I have also work on large construction sites, the Ideal Cement plant by Brown and Root in Theodore, AL, Canal Place II “high rise” at the foot of Canal Street in New Orleans, LA., the subway in Los Angeles, CA setting the lasers for the Tunnel Boring Machines, the mapping of Glendale, CA when the “window” for GPS reception was limited due to the lack of satellites not being launched yet, and the Bobby Hopper tunnel on I-540.

I have also enjoyed the privilege of teaching summer courses in surveying basics at Northwest Technical Institute, volunteer with the architectural students from the University of Arkansas for the betterment of the community and currently arraigning to help Eagle Scouts earn their merit badges in surveying. 

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FOR DIRECTOR DISTRICT 2:

    Cheyenne Jankowski, PLS

Marion County resident since December, 1991. Began surveying in 1994. Completed I.C.S. course on Surveying & Mapping in 1998. Received L.S.I.T in 2002 & received P.S. in 2004. Employed by De Aryan Land Surveying, Consolidated Land Services, Green Land Services & Gorton Land Surveying. Own and operate Jankowski Surveying since 2005. Married to wife Carrie, with two children Chase 5 and Cassie 4.

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  Michael Daniels, PLS

Michael Daniels is a Professional Surveyor and Certified Floodplain Manager with Haywood, Kenward, Bare & Associates, Inc. in Jonesboro , Arkansas .  He has recently completed the Certified Federal Surveyors program with the Bureau of Land Management and will be tested in February.  Michael was recently appointed to the City of Jonesboro ’s Stormwater Management Board and is a member of ASPS and the Arkansas Floodplain Managers Association.

Michael began his surveying career in 1997 and has worked at Mullhollen & Associates, Inc., B & F Engineering, Inc. and Haywood, Kenward, Bare & Associates, Inc.

 

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FOR DIRECTOR DISTRICT 5:

    Mark Ashley, PLS

Mark Ashley was born in 1957 in Natchez, Ms., graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1978 with a BS in Civil Engineering-with emphasis on surveying.  Mark worked for several civil/surveying firms, including Jordan, Kaiser, and Sessions of Natchez, Marlar Engr. of North Little Rock, and Garver and Garver (at that time) of Little Rock, as well as with the Summit County, Colorado, Engr. Dept. and the Arkansas Dept. of Pollution Control and Ecology-Mining Division.  The majority of the work experience with these entities were various forms of surveying.
 
In 1986, Mark incorporated a surveying/civil company called Covey Rise Engineering, that he operated part time until 1992, when he started devoting full time to the business.  Mark is the president and sole employee of CRE, which has and does perform primarily cadastral, construction, and topographic surveys, onsite disposal systems (perc tests), some small subdivision developments, and occasionally flood plain hydrology.   Robotic and GPS equipment are used in the field.
 
Mark and his wife Sarah, a registered nurse, have been married since 1980, and have two children.  Their son David is a medical student in Birmingham, Al., and daughter Elizabeth is a freshman at Harding University in Searcy majoring in physical therapy.  Mark and his family reside in Conway County, just north of Menifee, near Plumerville, Conway, and Morrilton, and are depending on God's grace for an eternal home.

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    John Burton, PLS. CFM

Native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Resident of Arkansas since 1979

Education:
B.S. Construction Management – University of Louisiana Monroe
A.S – Land Surveying – University of Arkansas Community College Morrilton
Graduate- American Flyers Airplane and Instrument Instructor Courses
Dallas, Tx.

Past Experience:
Construction Project Management ( Dams / Heavy Construction) -Field Engineering – Construction Sales and Management – Land Surveying – Floodplain Management

Present: Employed by Pulaski County Road and Bridge Department Pulaski County Surveyor – Professional Surveyor- Certified Floodplain Manager (Central Arkansas Delegate to Arkansas Floodplain Managers Association)

Personal: Married –Nesha Two Daughters- 4 year old grandson – 1 year old grand daughter
Hobbies: Grand kids, Motorcycles, Flying, Boating, Floating, Fishing and Traveling Arkansas

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FOR SECRETARY-TREASURER (unopposed):

    Charlie Storey, PLS

Charlie is a 1977 Graduate of Purdue University.  He has a Bachelor of Science in Land Surveying.  He is a 1985 Graduate of BLM/Forest Service Advanced Cadastral Surveying.  Since 1985 he has been a Forest Land Surveyor for the Ouachita National Forest. Charlie lives in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He is a Past President of ASPS.

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FOR NSPS GOVERNOR (unopposed):

    Steve Corley, PLS

 

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