Licensed Professional Surveyor

James E. Evans earned a BS degree in surveying from Ferris State College in 1974, and he studied business administration at Muskegon Business College from 1977-1978. He became a licensed professional surveyor in Michigan in 1975 and in New Jersey in 1985.

Mr. Evans received computer and CAD training from Muskegon Business College in 1986 and from Atlantic Community College from 1990-1991. He also received basic and advanced training in the use of global positioning systems from Ashtech in 1996.

Mr. Evans’ career has encompassed a diversity of surveying experience in many facets of surveying. He was employed by Williams & Works, Inc. from 1968-1969 where he was as a survey instrument man performing private land surveys, subdivisions and engineering projects. From 1968-1972 Mr. Evans served as an engineering aide for the U.S. Naval Construction Battalion headquartered in Gulfport, Mississippi. He functioned as a survey crew chief and draftsman performing road construction staking, building layouts, soil compaction tests and concrete testing in Viet Nam, Cuba and the Bahamas. He was responsible for bridge alignment and pier locations while in Viet Nam, and he supervised a dredge crew responsible for hydrographic surveys, calculations and mapping relative to deep-water excavation of U.S. Naval and shipping supply lanes in Cuba.

Mr. Evans worked for Newaygo Engineering & Surveying Company in White Cloud from 1974-1987. During this time he was the chief surveyor in charge of all private land surveys, civil engineering projects, and subdivision design. He was responsible for job research, maintaining survey records and corner recordation reports. He coordinated surveying efforts for the $5 million White-Cloud-Sherman Township Waste Water Sewage Disposal System and provided his services in conjunction with the restoration of public land corners for the Manistee National Forest in Newaygo, Lake and Oceana Counties. He served as the Oceana County surveyor from 1976-1980. In 1980, he worked in Punta Gorda, Florida on a 1000 lot subdivision.

From 1987 to 1993 Mr. Evans was the assistant office manager for Duffy-Dolcy & McMannus Associates in Absecon, New Jersey. He was the senior surveyor responsible for preparing private lot surveys, as-built surveys, topographic surveys, construction staking, hydrographic surveys and accident surveys. He also performed job research, computations and coordination for three survey crews.

Mr. Evans joined Advanced Geomatics in April, 1993 as the director of the company's Charlevoix survey division. He was responsible for running aerial ground control for approximately 40 miles of vertical and GPS derived horizontal aerial ground control relative to the proposed planning for reconstruction of U. S. 31 between Holland and Grand Haven, and has directed the company's public land corner remonumentation effort in both Wayne and Charlevoix counties. He has also performed bridge surveys on north US-131 in Grand Rapids, a bridge and road survey for US-131 at 76th Street in Grand Rapids, materials inventory surveys for Medusa Cement Company in Charlevoix, highway and hydraulics survey for M-51 in Dowagiac, pavement mapping for rehabilitation design on Woodward Avenue in Oakland County, highway reconstruction stakeout for M-115 in Mesick, and highway reconstruction stakeout for M-22 in Manistee.

Mr. Evans is currently serving on the board of directors for the Michigan Society of Professional Surveyors.  Additionally, Mr. Evans is certified in CPR and basic First Aid.