Eager to occupy a position within your company as a:

Survey Field Technician

With the intentions of:

• Strengthening techniques ascertained through my educational and entrepreneurial endeavors
• Proving my value and stanch work ethic amongst peers, management, and community.
• Continuing the processes of learning, adapting, and improving my productivity.

During demolition of pre-existing buildings we: located underground utility lines using traversing methods with a total station; set elevation-benchmarks throughout the site for the pipe and earthwork crews using leveling practices with an automatic-level and rod; staked out proposed lines and as-built newly laid/constructed lines. While the rest of the site was being cleared we: laid out and set home plate for a softball-field; staked out and graded dugouts, batting cage, and concession/restroom/scorer’s table building pads along with their associated underground utilities; laid out retention ponds along with their accompanying storm structures; staked out the continuous of a concrete wall partitioning various fields and the adjacent neighborhood. With demolition competed we: continued with underground utility layout; staked out and graded three more building pads; laid out a parking lot for the administration building; set property corners surrounding each new building to satisfy loan requirements for the banks. Throughout the job duration we as-built all completed construction and mapped out existing buildings to complete an assembled engineering drawing for the school board.

We were tasked to layout parking areas, the bus loop, associated curbing, and storm-runoff structures including retention ponds and swales. With an automatic level and rod vertical positioning was established to our horizontal control set by traversing methods with a total-station. Earthwork and EOP and/or BOC offsets were graded with the total station, but offsets for underground structures were graded with an automatic level and rod. We also set elevation benchmarks for the construction crews throughout the jobsite and as-built finished work.

On arrival we located newly-established control set by another surveying crew and checked for misclosures. We also fired off a view of our own control points throughout the site, which once was Cypress Gardens but is now being converted into LegoLand. Amongst ongoing demolition and heavy machinery we staked and graded earthwork using a total-station. Underground structures were staked with a total-station while their off-sets were pulled using tape and graded with the automatic level. We also staked and graded soon-to-be paths and access routes and as-built sewer, water, and storm lines.

This was a rough line which ran along cluttered and unkempt backyards

We held horizontal and vertical in composing a map for the city’s cost assessment of replacing an entire neighborhoods sanitary sewer line by locating all features/obstacles within the vicinity of such lines. These lines took us down back allies and unkempt boundary lines separated by various fences and property barricades. Our topographic survey included cross-section lines and particular detail of buildings and road intersections. Manholes were located and control was set using the L-Net GPS Network. We ran a level loop which passed through each man hole, from which we leveled our traverse points. Location was performed using a total-station and a data-collector. We also measured buildings and sheds within the vicinity of the sewer line.

We preformed some field checks and staked out underground lines and structures for a newly constructed multi-story building (Interdisciplinary Science Teaching & Research Facility).

We staked and graded earthwork and expansion buildings. Checked inverts

Well now I can’t say I haven’t been in jail

Data needed to be collected for engineering a proposed water pipeline along miles of highway. We performed a topographic survey of the right-of-ways associated with the proposed line and located all obstacles and structures within using both GPS and traversing methods. First off safety signs were placed along the roadway. We localized our base point and set control points along the roadway using GPS. A level loop was preformed through our control to tighten vertical precision and where trees obstructed GPS signals a total station was utilized to collect data.

After establishing control the silt-fence was laid out. Vertical precision was tighten with the running of a level-loop. Retention ponds and building pads were staked and graded with a total station. Underground structures were staked out with the total station and their offsets graded via automatic level. We also set elevation benchmarks and as-built finish work.

Background:
Contract for the Army Corp of Engineers
- Restoration project aimed at reverting the impact of C-38, a manmade canal dredged in the 60’s for the purpose of draining the Kissimmee River basin area
- Backfilling of C-38 and dredging the historic river course

Terrain types:
spoil mounds, waterways, floodplains

Deliverables:
Topographic survey demonstrating the volume of dirt moved by a contracted firm

Methods used:
GPS collection with real time kinematics using a base station

Background:
Contract for the Army Corp of Engineers
- Fisheating Creek is the last remaining naturally flowing tributary to Lake Okeechobee
- Part of the restoration efforts of the everglades ecosystem

Terrain types:
pasturelands, marshes, cypress swamps, oak and palm forest

Deliverables:
Topographic survey demonstrating runoff characteristics of the Fisheating Creek Basin area
Map water flow obstructions such as roads and their associated culverts

Methods used:
GPS collection with real time kinematics using either a base station setup or cellular modem link
Traversing using a Leica Total Station

We delivered a topographic survey of the entire basin area for the calculation of water flow in the event of water-surge.

Background:
Project with the goal of transforming acquired lands, irrigated orange groves, into reservoirs and stormwater treatment areas

Terrain type:
irrigated orange groves, irrigation ditches, spoil

Deliverables:
Boundary survey of the acquired parcel
Topographic survey revealing the layout of the acquired parcel

Method used:
GPS collection with real time kinematics using a base station
Traversing using Topcon Total Station

University of Florida - Bachelor of Science in Geomatics, 2008

In the disciplines of:
- Cadastral Principles
- Geodesy and Geodetic Positioning
- Geographic Information Systems
- Photogrammetry

- Remote Sensing
- Route Geometrics and Design
- Subdivision Design
- Surveying and Mapping Practice

With additional studies in:

- Business Law - Dendrology

- Hydrographic surveying - LiDAR applications

Thank You
Adam Zettlemoyer
email: adam@depthsofobscurity.com