2008, It's Official!

It has to be 2008 because I get corrected every time I write the date as '07.

This is a very busy time of the year for me. Between getting books and accounts in order and delivered to the accountant and getting everything put together for the employees for their taxes and doing employee performance reviews and reviewing company wide processes to look for any performance improvements we can make across the board, it's a little hard to take care of the little things, like keeping a blog updated for example.

Speaking of performance reviews, I'm once again reminded of why we are so successful. I have surrounded myself with a bunch of over achievers.

My little list:

1. Survey Director: Licensed in every known state in the US.... well, that is if you only know 5 of 'em. Jeremiah Dixon only wished he had known as much about surveying as this dude does. A real coach when it comes to managing people.
2. Senior Project Manager: Acquired his professional license at barely 30 years old. One of the most client based service oriented guys I have ever met. Give him a computer and some I's and O's and he'll have a map of something whipped out in no time.
3. Junior Project Manager: Every now and then you run into someone who just makes you say wow. Wow! This dude just got his Land Surveyor in Training certification this past summer. If you ever need anything, even if you don't know what that "anything" is, this guy will get it done. I don't think I have ever met anyone that was more intuitive.
4. Senior Field Techs: Creative! We give these dudes some maps, a few blurted instructions, and say "get 'er done" and, I'll be damn, they do just that. Me: Map that cliff... SFTs: how? Me: I don't know! SFTs: No worries, we'll figure it out.
5. The Rest: Dedicated to the cause and overwhelmingly accommodating.

All of this talent and we are adding yet another! This is a young Land Surveyor in Training from the Spokane area. He will give us some more depth in the technical arena especially pertaining to field crew direction. He will be able to spend more time training crews and give us more senior guys the chance to do more mentoring. He will be an exciting addition to the team.

On to other news:

This week we will do our first project using the new High Definition Mapping scanning instrument. We are pretty darn excited about how this project will go and plan on using the data and subsequent maps to educate our clients in the capabilities of this instrument. It will be a good opportunity to produce some really good marketing materials. Stay tuned.

The crews have been hard at work performing ALTA surveys, pipeline mapping, and topography for a proposed development, along with a scattering of miscellaneous small survey projects. We are expecting another good year but things have slowed down a little bit for us, as is to be expected right after the holidays, and I am hitting the marketing trail pretty hard so if you get a call from me you know the drill "PGS IS the best!"

Cheers!