Survey Operations Manager for a Survey and Engineering Firm seeking business minded leadership and accountability for top line revenues and bottom line profitability in its surveying operations
GREGORY W. VAUGHN
OBJECTIVE
Survey Operations Manager for a Survey and Engineering Firm seeking business minded leadership and accountability for top line revenues and bottom line profitability in its surveying operations
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
 A career distinguished by rapid promotions based on successfully meeting challenges set forth initially by immediate supervisors and ultimately by a corporate board of directors
 Proven track record as an Operations Manager to significantly increase bottom line profitability
 Significant project management experience to include the development of a loyal clientele base of attorneys and developers for residential, commercial and industrial condominium conversions
 Chairman of professional surveyor’s peer group comprised of 10 local surveying and engineering firms
 Director of Surveying for one of Michigan’s largest surveying operations with responsibilities for staffing, equipment purchases of GPS, robotic total stations and high definition laser scanners as well as final reviews of plats, condominiums subdivision plans and A.L.T.A. surveys
 Published testimony as prevailing expert witness in Michigan’s Court of Appeals
 Guest speaker for Michigan State University Agricultural Research Extension on Michigan’s Land Division Act and Condominium Act
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Remonumentation Representative Ottawa County
West Olive, MI 8/2008 to Present
ï® Responsible for development, adoption and implementation of Michigan’s first Model County Plan allowing for the use of RTK GPS methods for establishing state plane coordinates on Public Land Survey Section Corners
ï® Built coalition between the Michigan Department of Transportation, Leica Geosystems and the Ottawa County Planning & Grants Department for installation of 4 Continuously Operating Reference Stations [CORS] for use in the county’s remonumentation efforts
ï® Provide ongoing professional consultation and administrative oversight to one of only two expedited remonumentation programs within the State of Michigan
Director of Surveying
Nederveld, Inc.
Grand Rapids, MI 12/2006 to 5/2008
 Created annual Survey and High Definition Scanning department budgets for personnel, equipment, software licenses, professional liability insurance, training and field supplies
 Performed cost benefit analysis and obtained financing for new equipment and services that would increase productivity, reduce personnel costs and diversify the clientele base
 Developed the clientele base and managed the resulting workload for company’s residential, commercial and industrial condominium conversion (of existing facilities) business
 Responsible for quality of final client deliverables to include A.L.T.A. surveys, condominium subdivision plans, court ordered amended plats and proprietor’s plats
Operations Manager
Nederveld, Inc. Hudsonville, MI 4/2003 to 12/2006
 Spearheaded a corporate reorganization effort that increased the company’s billing percentage of cumulative project hours worked from 90% to 100%
 Recruited and insured adequate staffing for the civil engineering, investigative engineering, construction management, surveying and high definition scanning departments during a period of substantial business growth as well as a subsequent period of significant economic decline. Staffing grew from 60 to 100 staff members and subsequently declined to less than 50
 Led the effort to overhaul the corporate medical benefits plan from a traditional plan to a high deductable plan incorporating an employer-funded Health Savings Account – saving the company $118,000 in insurance premiums
 Negotiated the terms of equipment leases and purchases as well drafted proposals for professional surveying services and served as project manager for numerous surveying projects
 Elected to the Board of Directors by the Associate Shareholders of Nederveld
Plat & Survey Department Manager Nederveld, Inc. Hudsonville, MI 6/1996 to 4/2003
 Oversight of entire surveying field and office operation to include staffing, equipping, personnel training, problem resolution and implementation of a quality assurance program.
 Responsible for successful completion within budget of all condominium, site condominium, subdivision plats and land division projects. Nederveld averaged 50 such projects per year during this time period. Also served as Deputy County Surveyor.
Survey Crew Chief
Nederveld, Inc.
Hudsonville, MI 10/1994 to 6/1996
 Performed boundary and construction staking services for numerous commercial and residential development projects
Survey Crew Chief
Fishbeck, Thompson, Carr & Huber
Ada, MI 5/1992 to 10/1994
 Primary responsibility as the lead crew chief for the eastern eleven miles of the South Beltline Freeway Project
Survey Crew Chief
SEC Donohue [Now AECOM] Sheboygan, WI 4/1991 to 5/1992
 Construction staking WDOT project in Milwaukee and topographic design survey for Iowa DOT
Field Artillery Surveyor
United States Army Ft. Hood, Texas and Germany 3/1984 to 3/1988
 Provided surveying support to the field artillery and held additional duties as Battalion Map Custodian, Unit Training NCO and Unit Armorer for the battalion’s weapons and sensitive items
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science - Land Surveying
Associate in Applied Science - Civil Engineering Technology
Michigan Technological Univ. Houghton, MI
[GPA: 4.0] February 1991
Associate of Arts – General Studies
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
[GPA: 4.0] January 1988
Pre-Business Administration [Completed 2 terms before joining Army]
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
[GPA: 3.87] December 1983
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