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Earn up to 16 PDH at the 2023 Symposium with these sessions. Speaker bios are also included for your reference.
Sessions & Speakers
Hot Topics in Surveying (4 PDH (3 Ethics/Rules)) Speaker: Robert "Shane" Neally, RPLS A moderated panel discussion, Hot Topics in Surveying will primarily cover discussions on ethics, standards, boundary surveying, and business practices. However, we will also cover other topics including, but not limited to TSPS standards, technology, oil and gas surveying, and history. The moderator, Shane Neally, RPLS, will identify questions concerning the surveying profession and present them to the panel. The attendees will be able to ask questions and answer polls. We will have expert panelists answering the questions presented by the moderator and the attendees. The panel of experts will be determined and depending upon the topic, the moderator may introduce other expert panelists.
BIO: Robert "Shane" Neally, RPLS Shane received his AAS Degree in Surveying in 1992 from Tyler Junior College and in 2000, obtained license as a Registered Professional Land Surveyor. Shane is Partner and Vice-President of Stanger Surveying Tyler LLC and has 30 years’ experience in surveying with 28 of those at Stanger, performing boundary, topographic, route surveying and oil and gas surveying. Shane developed and presented the “Becoming an SIT” seminar at the first TSPS spring Symposium and has co-presented the TSPS brand “Professional Ethics” course for TSPS Chapter No. 4. Shane is an active member of TSPS, both on the Chapter and State level, having served as TSPS President in 2014 and has served as Chairman of the Chapter Activities Committee, Co-Chair of the SurPAC Committee, as Chapter 4 President and current Chapter 4 Secretary-Treasurer. Shane is also the Treasurer of the Texas Surveying Foundation, Inc. Shane was awarded the Chapter President of the Year award in 2004, the Young Surveyor of the Year award in 2010, Surveyor of the Year award in 2020 and several Presidential Awards.
Boundary Retracement Course (4 PDH) Speakers: Paul Carey, RPLS & Stephanie Prosser, RPLS
BIO: Paul Carey, RPLS, LSLS Registered Professional Land Surveyor and Licensed State Land Surveyor. Graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Geology from St. Mary’s University in 1978 and took Post Graduate Courses in Mathematics and Engineering at UTSA in 1981 & 1982. Paul has been working in Land Surveying since 1980, been a Member of TSPS since 1985, established Carey Land Surveying in San Antonio in 1986, began to work cooperatively with Frank Kennedy of Medina Valley Surveys, Inc. in 1995 and succeeded Frank as President of Medina Valley Surveys in 2003. Paul is a practitioner and advocate of “hands on” surveying (Surveyor in the field) and has personally made nearly eleven thousand boundary surveys. In the TSPS Paul serves as a Course Developer and Presenter in Continuing Education program, is Chapter 22 President and Chapter 22 Representative, is an Education Committee Member as Chairman of the Course and Speaker Development Sub-committee and of the Symposium and Seminars Sub-committee. He is a member of the Government Affairs Committee, LSLS Forum, the History Committee and is a Trustee and Secretary of the TSFI. In the past he has also served as the Chairman of the TSFI, the Awards Committee and Nominating Committee, and he has held the office of Director (2008-2011) and served as TSPS President in 2016. Paul is also a member of the Castroville City Council, in his third term, and was the recipient of the TSPS Vern Wayne Hanan Memorial Community Service Award in 2020.
BIO: Stephanie Prosser, RPLS Stephanie is a native Texan and has a lifelong interest in land and nature, leading to a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Texas – San Antonio and a Master of Science in Biology from Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. In 2008, she started her professional career as a Biologist with Bayou Land Conservancy in Houston, Texas. There she held a variety of titles including Conservation Director and Interim Executive Director. In 2016, Stephanie made a career switch to join her family surveying business, Medina Valley Surveys, located in Castroville, Texas, where she perpetuated her love of the outdoors with daily fieldwork. In 2020, Stephanie became a Registered Professional Land Surveyor. Since joining the family surveying business, she’s had the opportunity to work across Texas on many spectacular and challenging farms and ranches. Her heart is in the Hill Country, and she enjoys nothing more than exploring it. She sits on the Green Spaces Alliance Lands Committee and enjoys her time off playing outside with her husband, Patrick, daughters, Lily, and Mirabelle, and their many pets.
TxDOT Safety and Process: Part 1 & 2 (4 PDH each) Speaker: Ronny Lackey, RPLS
BIO: Ronny Lee Lackey, Jr., TX RPLS No. 6440, Surveying Section Director, Right-of-Way Division, Texas Department of Transportation Ronny Lackey has worked in Land Surveying since July of 2005 after graduating from Texas A&M with a Bachelor’s Degree in Geography with a Geographic Information Systems focus. He has filled several roles in his private-sector career, including GIS Specialist, Rodman, Survey Technician, Land Surveyor, Project Manager, Adjunct Professor, and Survey Division Director. He became a Texas Registered Professional Land Surveyor in 2013. Through his work in the private sector, he has served multiple client bases including TxDOT, college students, municipalities, land developers, homebuilders, utilities, and energy producers. He is currently a Master’s student in Geospatial Systems Engineering at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The last two years in TxDOT have kept him busy as a Land-Survey Project Manager for Houston District, former Adjunct Professor for Lone Star College in Conroe, and Surveying Section Director in ROW Division.
Conrad Blucher Institute: NGS Height Modernization Workshop (4 PDH) Speakers: Davey Edwards, Randall Kircher, Samuel Allred, Philippe Tissot, Tianxing Chu, Richard Smith, Dan Pouty, Ashley Greuter, Michael Starek, Seneca Holland The Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying & Science invites you to attend our Height Modernization Workshop to learn more about:
Speakers will include faculty from Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, researchers at the Conrad Blucher Institute at TAMU-CC, experts from NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey and collaborating partners at the Harris Galveston Subsidence District.
Easements (4 PDH) Speakers: Stan Piper, RPLS, Josh Leamons, RPLS, Miguel Escobar, RPLS
BIO: Miguel Escobar Mr. Escobar brings more than 26 years of experience in the land surveying industry with 20 years as a registered professional in Texas. Mr. Escobar has a wide variety of project experience ranging from large acreage boundary surveys to numerous right-of-way and design surveys throughout Texas. Much of Mr. Escobar’s experience has been in the land development industry and in municipal projects. Mr. Escobar was an Adjunct Professor at Austin Community College (ACC) in their land surveying program for 6.5 years and sits on the Advisory Committees for the land surveying programs at ACC and Texas A&M – Corpus Christi. Mr. Escobar is one of only 56 individuals in the State of Texas who hold the title of Licensed State Land Surveyor.
BIO: Josh W. Leamons, RPLS Josh is a Registered Professional Land Surveyor and Attorney at Law in Texas. Josh practices surveying as a Partner at Searchers Land Surveying, LLC and has over 12 years of land surveying. He received his Bachelor of Science in Technology with a surveying and mapping emphasis from The University of Texas at Tyler and his Doctorate in Jurisprudence from Texas Tech University School of Law. Josh is co-writing Select Statutes and Boundary Decisions, 3rd Edition. He is an Adjunct Professor at The University of Texas at Tyler, where he teaches advanced land surveying courses online.
BIO: Stan Piper, RPLS, PLS, LSLS Stan Piper has over fifty years of surveying experience in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas Tech University. He has been an active member of Texas Society of Professional Surveyors since 1977. Stan has prepared and presented numerous papers on various topics of boundary surveying and mapping at seminars for TSPS. His experience in surveying includes global positioning survey control for global information systems, ALTA/ACSM land title surveys, topographical surveys, oil well location surveys, route surveys and boundary surveys. His surveying experience includes 68 counties in West Texas and 3 counties in Southeastern New Mexico. Since founding Piper Surveying Company in 1981, he has provided competent surveying supervision to nurture the Company to its current stage of development.
Survey Math 101 Speaker: James Redmon This course will prepare students for topics covered in Survey Math 101 and will help prepare them for Level 1 of the NSPS Certified Survey Technician Exam. Basic math computations relating to conventional surveying techniques will be demonstrated and real-field survey scenarios will be provided for attendees to solve. By the end of this course, attendees will be able to manipulate equations to solve for a missing variable, solve right triangles for the missing elements when given two known elements, and derive angles, distances, and new coordinates from given coordinates.
ABC's of Ethics Speaker: Valerie Zurcher, RPLS The ABC’s of ethics covers not only the canons of ethics and our duty as surveyors in practice. We will be covering a variety of possible scenarios including (but not limited to) adequate supervision, budget pressures, client pressure, difference in opinion or negligence and employer pressure.
BIO: Valerie Zurcher, RPLS Val is a Registered Professional Land Surveyor in the Austin/Central Texas area. She began her survey career with a degree in survey technology from Vincennes University in Vincennes Indiana. She moved to Texas in 2002 and has been here ever since. With 20 years of survey experience in some way, shape or form; she started as a rodman/eyeman in Houston, moving to Austin and San Antonio as a party chief and then as a survey technician/SIT. She earned her license in 2012 and has most recently settled in New Braunfels Texas. Her goal is to be more active in TSPS and encouraging continuing education where we can all learn from one another. Survey Math 301 Speakers: Stephanie Prosser, RPLS Math 301 serves to be beneficial to those reviewing their math skills for levels 1-3 of the CST exam, the SIT exam, or seeking a better understanding of the basic math behind the mechanics of surveying. This course demonstrates intermediate math computations relating to conventional surveying techniques and provides real field survey scenarios for attendees to solve. Topics presented include: ABC’s of Trigonometry, Algebraic Manipulation, Law of Sines and the Law of Cosines Formulas. By the end of this seminar attendees will be able to; apply the ABC’s of Mathematics to use Law of Sines and Law of Cosines to solve for missing elements of oblique triangles.
BIO: Stephanie Prosser, RPLS Stephanie is a native Texan and has a lifelong interest in land and nature, leading to a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Texas – San Antonio and a Master of Science in Biology from Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. In 2008, she started her professional career as a Biologist with Bayou Land Conservancy in Houston, Texas. There she held a variety of titles including Conservation Director and Interim Executive Director. In 2016, Stephanie made a career switch to join her family surveying business, Medina Valley Surveys, located in Castroville, Texas, where she perpetuated her love of the outdoors with daily fieldwork. In 2020, Stephanie became a Registered Professional Land Surveyor. Since joining the family surveying business, she’s had the opportunity to work across Texas on many spectacular and challenging farms and ranches. Her heart is in the Hill Country, and she enjoys nothing more than exploring it. She sits on the Green Spaces Alliance Lands Committee and enjoys her time off playing outside with her husband, Patrick, daughters, Lily, and Mirabelle, and their many pets. Survey Math 401 Speakers: Paul Carey, RPLS Math 401 proves to be beneficial to those reviewing their math skills for levels 1-3 of the CST exam, the SIT exam or seeking a better understanding of the math for horizontal & vertical curves. This course demonstrates math computations relating to the use of curve formulas to solve for missing elements of horizontal curves and vertical curves using real-field survey scenarios for attendees to solve. It is recommended that attendees have the math skills of Math 301 prior to taking this course.
BIO: Paul Carey, RPLS, LSLS Registered Professional Land Surveyor and Licensed State Land Surveyor. Graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Geology from St. Mary’s University in 1978 and took Post Graduate Courses in Mathematics and Engineering at UTSA in 1981 & 1982. Paul has been working in Land Surveying since 1980, been a Member of TSPS since 1985, established Carey Land Surveying in San Antonio in 1986, began to work cooperatively with Frank Kennedy of Medina Valley Surveys, Inc. in 1995 and succeeded Frank as President of Medina Valley Surveys in 2003. Paul is a practitioner and advocate of “hands on” surveying (Surveyor in the field) and has personally made nearly eleven thousand boundary surveys. In the TSPS Paul serves as a Course Developer and Presenter in Continuing Education program, is Chapter 22 President and Chapter 22 Representative, is an Education Committee Member as Chairman of the Course and Speaker Development Sub-committee and of the Symposium and Seminars Sub-committee. He is a member of the Government Affairs Committee, LSLS Forum, the History Committee and is a Trustee and Secretary of the TSFI. In the past he has also served as the Chairman of the TSFI, the Awards Committee and Nominating Committee, and he has held the office of Director (2008-2011) and served as TSPS President in 2016. Paul is also a member of the Castroville City Council, in his third term, and was the recipient of the TSPS Vern Wayne Hanan Memorial Community Service Award in 2020. Working Sketches (4 PDH) Speakers: Mark Neugebauer & Jason Jernigan, RPLS
BIO: Jason Jernigan, RPLS Jason started his surveying career in the US Army as a Field Artillery Surveyor in 1997. He’s a graduate of Tyler Junior College, UT Tyler, and UT Dallas. He earned his Texas RPLS license in 2008. Jason has been on the Cut Off Score Exam Committee for TBPELS since 2009 and taught Legal Principles of Land Surveying at North Lake College from 2010 to 2017. He has been teaching classes at the TSPS Symposium since 2011. Jason is currently the Chief Operating Officer at ARS Engineers in Dallas, Texas. Most importantly, he is a devoted husband and proud father who really enjoys surveying.
American Red Cross CPR/AED & First Aid - Sponsored by ANCO American Red Cross Adult First Aid/CPR/AED course equips students to recognize and care for a variety of first aid breathing and cardiac emergencies involving adults. It is designed for students who need a certification that satisfies OSHA workplace or other regulatory requirements. Upon successful completion a valid 2 year digital certificate for Adult First Aid/CPR/AED from American Red Cross is issued. (Class is limited to 40 attendees.) Before Giving Care and Checking an Injured or Ill Person
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Klein-Collins Geomatic Model (4 PDH) Speakers: Isidro Garza, Shane Neally, Connor Brown, Deborah Bronner-Westerduin
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