Utility Mapping Service Inc

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UMS Company Background Utility Mapping Services, Inc (UMS) is a highly specialized, emerging small business focused on subsurface utility engineering (SUE). The firm's principal, Philip J. Meis, P.E. (MT, ID, SD, UT, CO, WY, TX) holds a M.S. degree in geophysical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and is specialized in shallow, high resolution geophysical mapping techniques. Twenty five cumulative years of national experience including civil/transportation engineering and construction management, geophysical surveying, land survey, mapping, and database management, have made him an ideally trained professionals who is remarkably adept in the field of subsurface utility engineering. Established in 2002, UMS has quickly arisen as a leader in the SUE industry, with current contracts for providing SUE services for projects involving six state transportation departments in the upper mid-western and western United States - Montana, Idaho, Utah, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Minnesota. UMS has provided SUE services for numerous transportation projects, including several major design-builds. UMS's growth and success is strictly due to our expertise, experience, and proficiency in SUE, as well as the ability to utilize a wide array of sophisticated technology to best accomplish the task at hand. Size does not translate to quality or capacity - UMS approaches SUE as a highly specialized and strategic professional service. Each project inherently has unique problems and characteristics that can be best handled through a suitable application of professional experience, technology, and local knowledge. UMS is adept at forming teaming relationships with the most apt local firms to best leverage institutional knowledge and perform the project with optimal, sure-footed efficiency. Likewise, UMS utilizes industry-leading expertise and state-of-the-art technology in high-resolution geophysics, vacuum excavation, global positioning system (GPS) land survey, geographic information system (GIS) data management, and utility engineering and construction from across the United States. Although UMS is a small business, under UMS project management, no SUE project is too complex, large, or fast-paced. UMS is a regular participant at national and state level conferences in which utility issues are addressed. Over the past several years Mr. Meis has given presentations on SUE issues before audiences at the AASHTO/FHWA Subcommittee on Right of Way and Utilities Conference (Newport, RI), Mn/DOT Surveyors Conference (Brainerd, MN), the Minnesota Office of Pipeline Safety Conference (Brainerd, MN), annual Damage Prevention Conferences and Expositions (San Diego, CA and Dallas, TX), the Iowa Geographic Information System Conference (Ames, IA), and annual state engineering conferences for Utah, Montana, and Missouri Departments of Transportation. In addition, he has provided workshops on SUE at two prior National Highway Utility Conferences in St. Louis, MO and in Phoenix, AZ. Through a collaborative effort with the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), UMS is leading a national effort to promote utility data management utilizing an intricate GIS platform and on-line utility permit processing system developed by TTI. A member of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Utilities (AFB70), UMS principal engineer and geophysicist, Philip J. Meis, has been approached by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to develop the next evolution of the Standard Guideline for the Collection and Depiction of Existing Subsurface Utility Data (CI/ASCE 38-02) which will address GIS data management requirements for SUE data. UMS and TTI are currently in process with several states to initiate implementation of Utility Management Systems that will ultimately resolve the issues for which SUE was developed by creating a means to store, maintain, and disseminate accurate utility as-built data, greatly enhancing utility coordinator capabilities. Having exected