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by: Tucker Sanders P.L.S.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\"President<\/figure>
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 I was born and raised in Atascadero, CA where I grew up playing baseball, basketball, soccer, golf, and tennis while squeezing in fishing when I could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was lucky enough to grow up in a household where my father was a Land Surveyor, so I was exposed to the profession at a young age.\u00a0 I helped a couple days off and on during summers growing up mostly running a star drill for nails and tags.\u00a0 I have fond memories of the crew seeing how many pieces of rebar they could sneak into the lath bag every time I set it down before I noticed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
My first real job was working at Tackle Warehouse in San Luis Obispo due to my love of fishing.  I really had no plans to go into the Land Surveying profession and was initially interested in pursuing a degree in hatchery management. I ended up deciding to give Land Surveying a shot as I enjoyed the outdoors so much and always excelled at math.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I visited Fresno State my senior year of high school and decided to enroll in the Geomatics Engineering program after a great tour with Dr. Crossfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I enrolled at Fresno State starting in the Fall of 2008 and graduated in the Spring of 2012 with my Bachelor of Science in Geomatics Engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During my time at Fresno State, I played for the Fresno State Rugby team from 2008 to 2009.  I worked as an equipment manager for the Geomatics Engineering Program where I oversaw weekly maintenance and cleaning of the survey equipment as well as setting up and networking computers for our computer lab. I was also a president of the Student Association of Geomatics Engineering at Fresno State.  I was also an inductee into Lambda Sigma, the honors society for Geomatics Engineering at Fresno State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was lucky enough to have a paid internship with the Bureau of Land Management out of the Paso Robles Field office during summers while going to Fresno State.  We worked predominantly on a project in the hills outside of Solvang but were also lucky enough to do a bit of work on the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.  Working for the BLM gave me a truly great foundation on the principles of Cadastral Land Surveying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Out of college I worked for a company based out of Madera, CA called Bedrock Engineering.  I was very fortunate for all the surveyors I was able to work with here and the knowledge they passed down. I spent 2 years almost exclusively in the field working on anything and everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After a couple of years of working full-time in the Central Valley I came to the conclusion that I wanted to move back to the Central Coast.  I was approached by Vollbrecht Surveys out of San Luis Obispo in early 2014 and took the opportunity to move back to my hometown.  One of the more unique opportunities I had while working for Vollbrecht Surveys was to build 3d airspace models of airport layout plans for the airports the company was specializing in at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In January of 2015 I made the move to North Coast Engineering, Inc. where I was lucky enough to work under my dad for the remainder of his carreer.  During my time at North Coast Engineering, Inc. I have progressed my way from Survey Technician to my current position of Principal Land Surveyor which I officially took over for my dad when he retired in January of 2021. I am currently licensed in CA, ID, AZ and am hoping to add a couple more adjacent states as well as pursue my cFedS in the next couple years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I consider myself very fortunate to be able to live and pursue a career in the beautiful Central Coast and make a conscious effort to never take that for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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