2014 Surveyor of the Year David R. Williams, PLS, CWRE 7 Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon | www.plso.org SURVEYOR OF THE YEAR 2014—DAVID WILLIAMS Nomination Letter On behalf of the Central Chapter of Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon, we respectively submit our nomination for the 2014 Surveyor of the Year as David Williams. Dave has been a Corporate Member of PLSO for more than fi ve years; has demonstrated a history of high competence, integrity, and professionalism; assisted qualifi ed and interested people into the advancement within the profession; and has a career long service to the profession. Th e Central Chapter believes David’s involvement and duties of being Chapter President, holding Secretary positions, community involvement, and being an active participant of our local chapter, has shown the characteristics of those worthy for this honor. ◉ Submitted by: Kevin Samuel, Central Chapter president-elect and secretary Parneli Perkins Mike Berry Ken Grantham Brian Reeves Chris Munson Richard Bryant (Surveyor of the Year, Life Member) Biography David Williams, Oregon PLS 2686 and President of Hickman, Williams & Associates in Bend, Oregon, was born in Tillamook and raised on his parent’s dairy farm. Aft er graduating from high school, Dave attended Oregon State University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. Aft er college, Dave worked at a variety of jobs before traveling to Alaska where he managed pipeline camps on the North Slope. When work slowed on the Alaskan Pipeline in the mid-1970s, he returned to Oregon and settled in Bend where he went to work at George Cook Engineering. Dave thrived in the engineering/surveying business, becoming a project manager for Cook and an accomplished businessman. Dave became the main contact for clients, title companies, realtors, planners and other engineering/surveying fi rms at George Cook Engineering. When the company reorganized as High Desert Engineering he was made vice president. His years with Cook in the mid-1970s through the early 1980s established Dave’s local reputation as a bright, hardworking, honest and business savvy surveyor. Additionally, Dave exhibited an enthusiasm for embracing new technologies, using some of the fi rst EDMs and one of the earliest electronic theodolites, the K & E Vectron, for a 1978 job in the Th ree Sisters Wilderness. Aft er Cook retired and shuttered his business in 1984, Dave went to work with Century West Engineering Corporation in Bend. At CWEC, he and Gary Hickman ran the surveying department and continued to push the envelope of cutting edge technology, using CADD and the early computerized Wang fl atbed plotter. In 1987, Dave and Gary Hickman left CWEC to form Hickman, Williams & Associates (HWA), a full service surveying, engineering and land use planning company. Aft er a few years, Gary Hickman » continues on page 8 » David R. Williams, PLS, CWRE. Photo by Wendy Randall
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