Minister & Glaeser Surveying, Inc. was formed in March 1983 by Bolton C. Minister and Robert W. Glaeser. Since that time the company has been completed a variety of surveying projects ranging from residential lot surveys to large construction projects and federal architect and engineering contracts. Clients include private property owners, developers, general contractors, engineering firms, and city, county, state and federal agencies.
Minister & Glaeser Surveying, Inc. has maintained an office in Vancouver, Washington since 1983 and added an office in Pasco, Washington in 2002.
On December 31, 2002, the firm was sold to Edmund Denny, David Denny, Kevin Bethje and Daniel Renton. The new principals are all long-term employees of the firm.
The principals and key personnel of Minister and Glaeser Surveying, Inc. are Professional Land Surveyors who are licensed in the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, Montana, and Arizona.
The firm has 50 employees, including 10 licensed surveyors, and the vehicles and equipment for 12 field crews.
Minister and Glaeser Surveying, Inc. is proud of our record of performing projects safely, efficiently, on schedule and within budget. Our company has always established and maintained a good working relationship with our clients. We have received several letters of commendation for past performance on some of these survey contracts.
Principals
Edmund Denny, ed@mgsurvey.com Professional Land Surveyor, Principal, Project Manager
Registration:
1995 / Professional Land Surveyor, Washington #32451
1994 / Professional Land Surveyor, Oregon #2662
Edmund has worked as a project surveyor on a variety of projects throughout the Pacific Northwest for 27 years. He is an experienced and qualified Professional Land Surveyor.
His skills include:
horizontal and vertical control surveys
site and topographic surveys for engineering design
boundary surveys
ALTA surveys
subdivision surveys
construction surveys
AutoCAD 2005 with LDD5 for the use of survey and construction calculations
tracing and computing riparian boundaries
all aspects of data research
preparation of legal descriptions
calculations for boundary and construction surveys
Ed has been in charge of several large-scale construction projects, such as Light Rail projects (Portland Oregon, Sacramento California and Long Beach to Los Angeles California.) Edmund prides himself on implementing procedures and checks along with communication to minimize professional liability.
Daniel Renton, dar@mgsurvey.com Professional Land Surveyor, Principal, Project Manager
Education:
Southern Oregon State College / B.S. / 1985 / Science and Mathematics
Oregon State University / B.S. / 1995 / Civil Engineering
Registration:
1996 / Engineer in Training, Oregon #2185
1997 / Professional Land Surveyor, Oregon #2830
2001 / Professional Land Surveyor, Idaho #10165
2001 / Professional Land Surveyor, Washington #37535
2002 / Certified Water Rights Examiner, Oregon #52790
Daniel has worked as a party chief and project surveyor on a variety of projects throughout the Pacific Northwest for 15 years. He is an experienced and qualified Professional Land Surveyor. He has extensive experience in performing and supervising surveys in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. He is responsible for supervising global positioning system surveys, horizontal and vertical control surveys, ALTA surveys, topographic surveys for schools, boundary surveys for schools, construction surveys for schools, lot-line adjustment surveys, and quantity calculations. He is an expert in GPS Survey methods, using Real Time Kinematic (RTK), and post processed static GPS to establish geodetic control for state plane coordinate systems. He is experienced in using AutoCAD 2005 with LDD5 for digital terrain modeling and survey calculations.
David Denny, dad@mgsurvey.com Professional Land Surveyor, Principal, Project Manager
Registration:
1998 / Professional Land Surveyor, Washington #35477
1997 / Professional Land Surveyor, Oregon #2804
David has worked as a party chief and project surveyor on a variety of projects throughout the Pacific Northwest for 26 years. He is an experienced and qualified Professional Land Surveyor. He is proficient at calculations for the location and relocations of boundaries per the B.L.M. Manual of Survey Instructions. His expertise includes:
horizontal and vertical control surveys
subdivision surveys
lot-line adjustment surveys
topographic surveys for schools
construction surveys
ALTA surveys
locating and setting aerial photo pre-marks
data collection surveys for engineering design
AutoCAD 2005 with LDD5 for the use of survey and construction calculations
tracing and computing riparian boundaries
all aspects of data research
preparation of legal descriptions
calculations for boundary and construction surveys
He is responsible for survey data research, preparation of plats and for preparation of legal descriptions. He is also responsible for scheduling field crews and insuring the quality of the work performed.
Kevin Bethje, klb@mgsurvey.com Professional Land Surveyor, Principal, Project Manager
Education: Lower Columbia College / A.A. / 1994 / Science
Registration:
2002 / Professional Land Surveyor, Washington #38490
2001 / Professional Land Surveyor, Oregon #55437
2001 / Professional Land Surveyor, Idaho #10134
2003 / Professional Land Surveyor. Montana #16204
Kevin has worked as a party chief and project surveyor on a variety of projects throughout the Pacific Northwest for 13 years. He is an experienced and qualified Professional Land Surveyor. He has extensive experience in performing and supervising surveys in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. He is responsible for supervising horizontal and vertical control surveys, ALTA surveys, topographic surveys for schools, boundary surveys for schools, construction surveys for schools, lot-line adjustment surveys, and quantity calculations. He is accomplished in using AutoCAD 2005 with LDD5 for digital terrain modeling and survey calculations. He is responsible for survey data research, preparation of plats and for preparation of legal descriptions. He is responsible for scheduling field crews and insuring the quality of the work performed.
Specialists
Greg Baird, gpb@mgsurvey.com Professional Land Surveyor, ACSM Certified Hydrographic Surveyor, Project Surveyor
Registration:
1999 / ACSM Inshore and Offshore Hydrographer Certification #201
2000 / Professional Land Surveyor, Oregon #48471
2004 / (3rd Issue) U.S. Coast Guard 25 ton Inland Masters Boat Operations LIC# 881133
Greg has worked as a project surveyor on a variety of projects throughout the Pacific Northwest for 25 years. Greg is experienced in the operation and calibration of the various automated hydrographic survey systems used by Minister & Glaeser Surveying, Inc. to conduct bathymetric surveys. His experience includes hydrographic surveys on rivers; shallow streams, lakes and ponds using fully automated systems as well as using portable automated data collection systems mounted in small survey boats. Greg is also proficient in the preparation and processing of hydrographic survey data. He is experienced in the use of HYPACK software, which is a comprehensive survey program that is used for planning, data collection, navigation, editing and processing survey data. Greg is experienced in preparing final survey data and charts using Terramodel and AutoCAD 2005 with LDD5.
John Shea, jjs@mgsurvey.com Professional Land Surveyor, Project Surveyor, Project Manager Pasco Office
Registration:
1996 / Professional Land Surveyor, Washington #33656
1996 / Professional Land Surveyor, Oregon #2751
1997 / Water Rights Examiner, Oregon, CWRE #443
1999 / Professional Land Surveyor, Arizona #33869
2001 / Professional Land Surveyor, Montana #14727
John is an experienced and qualified Professional Land Surveyor. He is experienced in horizontal and vertical control surveys, ALTA surveys, site surveys and topographic surveys for engineering design and schools, boundary surveys, hydrographic and construction surveys. He has worked as a party chief and project surveyor on a variety of projects throughout the Pacific Northwest for 20 years. He has worked as a survey technician and is proficient in all aspects of data research, preparation of legal descriptions, calculations for boundary and construction surveys. He has provided field work for note reduction for horizontal and vertical control, photogrammetric and GPS ties. His responsibilities also include crew scheduling and quality control of field work. He is also proficient at boundary location and retracement per BLM surveying instructions, as well as AutoCAD 2005 with LDD5 and Star*Net least squares adjustment software.
Education: St. Louis Community College - AA Business Administration, 1987
Portland State University - BS Geology, expected
Experience: David has a wide variety of experience working on environmental and civil engineering projects in the mid-west and Pacific Northwest for the last 18 years. He has been with Minister & Glaeser since 2002, providing his surveying experience in the field and office. David provides our clients with planning services for land development projects, specializing in subdivisions, short plats, binding site plans, boundary line adjustments, road vacations and other land use issues. The planning department is full service, gaining approval for various types of projects in several municipalities. His creative solutions and knowledge to planning issues have generated cost savings to our client's.
