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PLSC Board Bios

Brian Dennis - President - 2022-2024

Brian is a licensed Professional Land Surveyor in the states of Colorado, Nevada and Kansas and currently resides in Colorado Springs, Co. Brian has nearly 20 years of land surveying experience in the private sector and is currently a Senior Survey Project Manager with Galloway & Company, Inc. He is a current Director on the Board for Southern Chapter of the PLSC and a past President of the CSRN, serving two consecutive one year terms for 2011-2012. He has also served as a past Director for the CSRN and as Vice President. Due to changing needs within the survey community, in 2014, the CSRN Chapter was dissolved and the GPS Committee was formed in its place. Brian wanting to remain involved became a committee member and is current to date. In addition, he is a PLSC Legislative Committee member for the past 8 years and the new Colorado representative for the Youth program with NSPS. He has been an active member of the PLSC for over a decade. Brian has been involved in the Height Modernization Advisory Committee and past PLSC representative of the GIS in the Rockies planning committee (2007-2009). Brian’s focus within the survey community continues to be outreach and introduction of the land surveying profession to the youth. He has accomplished this through the CSRN GPS Day events, GPS committee events, Trig-Star awards speaker, STEM program in Colorado Springs and Denver area and specifically through the Boy and Girl Scouts.


Ralph Pettit, PLS - Past President - 2022-2024

Ralph has 30+ years of experience in the surveying profession.  The first 25 years were in the private sector focused primarily on residential and commercial development.  Through working in four states, holding current licenses in Colorado and North Carolina, and employing as many as 33 people, he has acquired a wide array of knowledge, skills, and experience.  During Ralph’s seven years in the public sector working for the City and County of Denver, he has drawn on that private sector experience to help streamline the review process by developing and implementing policies and procedures that aid the City reviewers and developers alike. 
Ralph takes great pride in our surveying profession and works relentlessly to help ensure the products we produce are of the highest quality and professional care to the benefit and betterment of our customers, ourselves, and our profession.

Shaun Lee, PLS - Treasurer - 2022-2024

 

Becky Roland - Executive Director

Becky Roland began her association management career in 1989 with National Environmental Health Association. In 2004, she began her own association management company - Phoenix AMC. Becky received her MBA from Regis University. 
Working for PLSC has been a tremendous experience, and she looks forward to seeing PLSC continue to make a difference in the community.
When not at PLSC events, she enjoys family time, watching football and traveling. 
 
 
 




Brian Bowker, PLS, - Director - 2020-2024

Ian Cortez, PLS, - Director - 2020-2024

Ian Cortez, PLS & RWA, Central Chapter Director – Ian grew up in northeast Colorado and went to college at the University of Southern Colorado (USC), now known as CSU – Pueblo. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering Technology, with an emphasis in Land Surveying. During his time at USC, he enrolled in three summer internships with the Bureau of Land Management. After obtaining his degree, he has obtained his professional license in three states: Colorado, California, and New Mexico. Most of his professional career has been in Southern Colorado as a project surveyor and a director of surveying services. In 2013, he and his family moved to the Denver metro area and has become the Right-of-Way Supervisor for the Adams County Public Works Department. His land surveying background serves as the backbone in career today and welcomes any questions from his professional colleagues about record data at the County.







Todd Johnston, PLS, - Director - 2020-2024

Todd has lived in southwest Colorado his entire life and is a second-generation surveyor. He graduated from Fort Lewis College with a BA in Engineering Management and a minor in GIS. Mr. Johnston was licensed as a Professional Land Surveyor in 2004. He has been a member of PLSC since 2010 and active in the Southwest Chapter. Todd has worked in the Colorado Department of Transportation’s Region 5 Survey Unit since 1998.








Heather Lassner, PLS, - Director - 2022-2026

Dennis Mouland, PLS, - Director - 2022-2026

Dennis J. Mouland is a registered professional surveyor in Arizona and Colorado.  He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management and has been in the surveying profession since 1972.  His experience is evenly split between the private sector, including his own surveying firm, and federal government employment.
Dennis has been an instructor and course manager for the BLM/Forest Service “Advanced Cadastral School” and more recently served as the National Cadastral Training Coordinator for BLM in Phoenix, AZ (2005 – 2011).  In that position he developed the Certified Federal Surveyors Program for the Department of the Interior.  In addition to having over 300 technical articles published in the U.S. and Canada, Dennis is a contributing author to the textbook “The Surveying Handbook” and authored “Ethics for the Professional Surveyor” in 1996, now in its second edition (2020).  Dennis has authored a textbook entitled “Public Lands Retracement in the 21st Century” plus two historical fiction books about surveying. He has conducted seminars for the surveying and real estate professions since 1984.  To date, Dennis has instructed over 230,000 students on boundary survey subjects.
He was given a Lifetime Membership in PLSC in 1998, and the Arizona surveyors gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. In 2005, Professional Surveyor magazine named Dennis one of the top 25 most influential surveyors in the U.S. for the previous 25 years.
Dennis has taught boundary law subjects in higher education institutions since 1995 and is currently a Surveying Instructor at the University of Wyoming. He previously taught at Oklahoma State University and Metro State University.

Steve Parker, PLS, - Director - 2022-2026

Steven Parker has been surveying, mapping and doing GIS for over 27 years. He is currently licensed in Colorado and Kansas, he is a Certified Floodplain Manager and a Certified Federal Surveyor through the BLM. He works as a Senior Surveyor at NV5 in Colorado Springs, an engineering consulting firm that values and demonstrates business growth, innovation, and an entrepreneurial spirit. He is a volunteer trainer at Engineering Ministries International and has traveled to Africa on two design survey project trips. He enjoys getting together with the surveyors of the Southern Colorado Professional Land Surveyors chapter of the PLSC. And, in his free time Steve likes to ride his motorcycle, target shoot, big game hunt and participate in Army Airborne reenactments.

Thomas Sylvester, PLS - Director (Western Chapter) - 2017-2020

Thomas W. Sylvester, Professional Engineer, Professional Land Surveyor (Principal of Merritt LS, L.L.C.)  graduated with an Engineer of Mines degree, Colorado School of Mines 1969.  He has over 45 years of experience in construction, mining, engineering, and surveying.  His construction experience includes Naval Mobile Construction Battalions in Antarctica and Italy and more recently supervising engineering designs and construction surveying and providing construction project on site engineering management for Merritt LS, L.L.C. projects. His mining experience includes precious metal, coal and industrial minerals engineering, surveying, and management mostly in the western United States, and surveying includes property surveys, subdivision surveys, mining claim surveys, underground and surface mining surveys, construction surveys, slope stability monitoring surveys and managing various surveying projects for Merritt LS, L. L. C. He is  licensed as a Colorado Professional Engineer in 1976 (P. E. 14249) and as a Colorado Professional Land Surveyor in 2006 (P. L. S. 38005). He is an  instructor for Fundamentals of Surveying at Delta-Montrose Technical College and Western Colorado Community College. And a member of NSPS and the Past President of Western Colorado Land Surveyors Chapter of PLSC.

Scott Thompson, PLS, - Director - 2022-2026


Todd G. Beers, PLS, - NSPS and WFedS Delegate - 2022-2024

Todd graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. degree in Land Surveying Engineering.  He has been in Colorado in the surveying industry since 1994.  Todd currently serves as the Geomatics-Survey Project Manager at Merrick & Co.  He is an active member of the CCPS chapter of the PLSC and has served as CCPS President (2009), Vice President (2008) and Director (2002-2004) as well as CSRN Treasurer (2009-2012).  Over the past 3 years Todd has been the chairperson of the annual Rocky Mountain Survey Summit conference providing education opportunities to Colorado surveyors.  Todd is a licensed surveyor in Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Idaho and Louisiana.

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