Since 1981, Mr. Austen has been in the field of land surveying, and is a licensed Professional Land Surveyor in the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS:

Michael Austen's range of experience throughout his surveying career has been diverse. He has been the Project Surveyor for major freeway projects, including West Virginia Department of Transportation Projects, Ohio Department of Transportation Projects, and California Department of Transportation I-105. After the completion of the I-105 construction project, Mr. Austen went on to become the I-105 monumentation coordinator for the entire I-105 freeway.

Mr. Austen has varied experience in construction staking, subdivision, utilities, topographic, slope staking, rights-of-way, boundary/monumentation, bridges, photogrammetric, as-builts, A.L.T.A. surveys, horizontal and vertical control networks, and aerial and seismic surveys. Other projects in which Mr. Austen has been involved include Los Angeles subway stations, William P. Hobby Airport taxiways, Houston Sewer Treatment Plant, large boundary surveys, large subdivision developments and high rise construction projects.

TRAINING:

- Southern California Surveyors Joint Apprenticeship
   Committee (SCSJAC) Party Chief Program, Rancho
   Santiago College, Santa Ana, California - 1991.

- Graduated from SCSJAC's Chainman Program, Walnut,
   California - 1990.

- Mathematics/Engineering curriculum, Citris College,
   Glendora, California - 1990.

- Engineering curriculum, North Harris Community College,
   Houston, Texas - 1984.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

- American Congress of Surveying and Mapping
- National Society of Professional Surveyors
- Professional Land Surveyors of Ohio
- West Virginia Association of Land Surveyors