26 Header The Oregon Surveyor | Vol. 47, No. 4 Member Spotlight Standing in front of Sadam Hussein's palace in Ramadi, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Jesse in late May 2024 standing at the U.S.-Mexico border wall doing drone operations for geological study. Jesse preparing to go hike the hills to locate boundary monuments on a private boundary survey of a roughly 60-acre property Leesport, Pennsylvania. He says this project is one of his favorites because while doing the research for the boundary, he came across a survey of the area that was done by George Washington! It was a pipeline project with WHPacific in Pennsylvania that started him on his path of licensure. While at McCarthy Engineering, he was convinced he needed to buckle down and get his surveying license. “I wanted to be able to make my own decisions about what work I was doing as I was getting older,” he says. “I didn’t want to be nearing retirement age and still have someone telling me what to do every day.” So in 2014, White buckled down. He passed the Fundamentals of Surveying and Principles & Practice of Surveying exams back-to-back, and in 2018 secured his license and his future. “It’s a tough test, but they know they have a certain caliber of individual with that credential once you pass it,” White remarks about the rigorous testing process. continued
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