GeoMark Survey - Houston Texas

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George Mock, RPLS has extensive, professional experience in adding value to pipeline and compression projects in the Oil & Gas Pipeline Industry. With over 16 years of Industry knowledge, varied and interesting field expertise, Survey Project Management and Survey Manager Experience, George brings innovation and excellence to projects and promotes synergy on project teams. He has shown continued success in executing profitable projects through proven, effective leadership and project-support skills. George started in the field as a Rodman on a survey crew, quickly advancing to become the youngest Crew Chief at the company. Over several years, he attended college in the evenings to achieve his AutoCAD Drafting Certification (42 hours) and was promoted to Survey Technician Manager, Survey Coordinator and Data Manager for the company’s' largest project in 1996. Thereafter, George continued his progression as a Survey Project Manager while continuing his education and Surveyors Internship to become certified to obtain Registration as a Professional Licensed Surveyor (RPLS), in the State of Texas, in 2003.

Opening Geomark Survey in January of 2004, George has successfully performed multiple Services in the Survey Industry and has retained continued success through providing unparalleled Project Solutions. Some past projects include; Industrial, Utility Easement Remediation, Residential to Commercial Conversion, Subdivision Design and layout as well as Flood Zone Certification. However, the majority of the projects performed have been in the survey consulting, management and field/office design of proposed pipeline routing and workspace generation for interstate transmission pipeline projects, regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

George has successfully provided Pipeline Survey Project Coordination and Management for some of the largest pipeline projects throughout the country over the past decade. Over the past 16 years, George has worked for Universal ENSCO (1993-2000), Clark-Geogram (2000-2001), Mustang Engineering (2001-2005), Geomark Survey (2004-Present) and Tennessee Gas Pipeline (2006-2009) Company (TGP-El Paso Corporation).

Over the past 3 years, George served as TGP Survey Coordinator and Manager for the El Paso Corporation (EP) – TGP Pipeline Division, in the heart of downtown Houston. George had provided Company Representation in Survey Project Management for multiple Expansion Projects and had started the process of supporting the Compliance, Regulatory, Compression, Right-of-Way, Environmental, Maintenance and Operations Survey needs.

In 2006 George was contracted by TGP to manage the survey efforts for the proposed 850 mile, 36"-42" Continental Connector Project, spanning from Colorado to Louisiana. Responsibilities included management of the Primary Control establishment, field project management, field engineering of the proposed routing, workspace design and documentation as well as route and re-route design and management. In addition, George managed integration of aerial photography, existing data compilations, generated and executed the environmental and civil data quality-assurance programs as well as provided progress reporting to management. George provided oversight to two separate survey contract companies for data delivery timeliness, invoice review and data excellence. He also generated data flow protocol with Drafting and provided consulting expertise through process establishment and execution.

In 2007, George accepted the Direct, Principle position of TGP Survey Manager, as well as Survey Project Manager for the proposed Northeast Passage Project, consisting of 650 miles of parallel and green-field 36" pipeline extending from the terminus of REX East in Ohio to upstate New York. George generated the scope of services and managed Contractor coherence to Company standards for Control Establishment, Civil Survey, Field Engineering, Field Project Management and Aerial Photography Services. George estimated and bid the project to several Survey Contractors. By effectively choosing 2 Major Survey Contractors for the Project, George eventually ascended to the role of Engineering Functional Lead (EFL - a TGP Company representative responsible for oversight of Survey, Drafting and Design functions), as one of the awarded Contractors was installed into the Survey Project Management role.

In 2008, while continuing as TGP Survey Manager, George took on the additional role of Survey Project Manager for the 300 Line Expansion Project for TGP, consisting of a proposed 30” pipeline traversing 128 miles across portions of northern Pennsylvania and New Jersey adjacent to the existing 24” TGP pipeline. Over a 5 month timeframe, George fully performed all previously described duties including defining full scope of services and estimating a forecast, presented bids to 5 companies, evaluated and generated a program of services that awarded 6 individual contract companies and included 12 individual contracts. Some of the additional services George managed to procure and oversee were aerial photography, LiDAR & planemetric mapping, generated scope, spec definition and bid. He led the Field Engineering support for design and workspace development as well as civil and environmental data acquisition and management. Enjoyed interfacing with Project peers in ROW, Design, Environmental and Project Management, as well as heavy cooperation with Drafting. Successfully delivered topographic, cadastral and environmental quality assured data sets to project drafting teams for the expedient generation of the FERC required drawings and impact tables, after overseeing and managing the proposed route and workspace design. George successfully acquired, managed and delivered all field-acquired and certifiable land parcel data as well as aerial photography necessary to prepare a lion’s share of the FERC Certificate mapping and environmental impact calculation needs on budget and a week early.
During his time at EP, and in between working multiple, smaller Projects, George re-developed and instituted the current EP Company Standards for the data acquisition and delivery process, for all field acquired survey data Corporation-wide. The companies that participated in this streamlining effort included; ANR (now TransCanada), CIG, WIC, SNG, EPNG and TGP. George has left a legacy of success in the program standardization of data acquisition as well as the streamlining and documenting of the survey - drafting processes, designed to minimize errors and delays in data delivery from Survey Contractors through Drafting and eventually into the final residence in the Company GIS repository. George analyzed, developed, negotiated and managed the overall design for this highly efficient data life-cycle process and effectively trained and applied it to in-house users, spanning across different departments and divisions of El Paso, as well as to EP Survey Contractors.

Some of the other key Project's George has also participated in a Project Coordination role:

1996-2000 Alliance Pipeline Project - US 888 miles - Survey Services Coordinator and Data Acquisition and Quality Assurance Manager.

As Survey Coordinator – Trained and led a team of 14 Survey Technicians, 7 Survey Supervisors and up to 50 field crews involved with the GIS–Format data collection for preliminary and as-built phases for the entire U.S. portion of the project. Responsibilities included total design, training, implementation and management of data acquisition and GIS data integration procedures and final delivery of Quality assured data to be used in development of the final product (Alignment Sheets) to the Client for FERC Certification application. In conjunction with engineering, designed proposed pipeline route. Identified and electronically laid-out re-route locations for pipeline engineers’ review before incorporation. Analyzed, reduced and adjusted raw field data. Provided GPS, electronic filing procedures and software training for all field crews, survey technicians and survey supervisors. Generated and managed all master drawings in AutoCAD that provided other team members, involved in the completion of workable drawings and other pertinent documentation associated with design and construction, a quality assured deliverable that was used to formulate FERC filing data needs. Generated FERC approved proposed pipeline and workspace stakeout files and efficiently lead the effort for 888 miles of construction staking for all field teams. Totally designed and implemented the GIS data collection parameters, protocols and file management system for over 7000 individual GPS data files and scanned field notes. Generated plats and worked directly for the Project RPLS for eminent domain proceedings across the proposed route as well as conducting deed research and coordinating specific ground surveys/re-staking for FERC data requests. George enjoyed successful interaction between the ROW, engineering, environmental and drafting departments. Generated progress reports for company executives, other team entities, directors and clients.
During the Alliance Project, George also designed and managed groundbreaking GIS data acquisition and processing methodology for the as-built portion of the Project through custom-built software he designed and built with an assigned software writer. This software program was developed for greater efficiency in automating manual processes and to provide multiple layer, quality assurances for the massive incoming data sets. This software proved to save hundreds of thousands of dollars over the project timeline by streamlining the enormous task of data processing, organization, proper conversion and expedited delivery. George worked closely with Client GIS Team to analyze their needs, generate the specs, develop and document the processes and then successfully delivered their desired, final data sets in record time and superior quality, utilizing the bleeding edge software innovation George designed from his process skills.

2001-2005 Survey Project Manager/GPS Specialist – Multiple Highlighted Projects:
FREEPORT LNG – 42”, 10 mile LNG pipeline - Survey Project Manager and also performed Greenfield LNG plant surveys – Quintana Island, TX.

ATLANTA GAS & LIGHT (AGL) - 16”- 36” Multiple Projects, 30 miles in Atlanta, GA. Survey Project Manager

YORK COUNTY GAS – 16”- 26”, 30 miles in Rock Hill, SC. Survey Services Coordinator, Survey Project Manager

ENBRIDGE – CARTHAGE PROJECT 42”, 105 miles. GPS Services Coordinator - Designed and executed GPS Primary Control Network.

NEW JERSEY GAS - Survey Project Manager - Multiple Projects 24”, 30+ miles

ENTERPRISE PIPELINE FACILITY INTEGRITY PROGRAM - Survey Project Manager - Ran Program of determining proper locations of multiple Valve and Metering facilities that fell outside their prescribed locations. Generated new plats and recorded new locations in tax offices.

SEMINOLE PIPELINE FACILITY INTEGRITY PROGRAM - Survey Project Manager - Ran Program of determining proper locations of multiple Valve and Metering facilities that fell outside their prescribed locations. Generated new plats and recorded new locations in tax offices.

BROADWING COMMUNICATIONS (CINCINNATI BELL) - EXISTING FIBER GPS/GIS INVENTORY – 300+ MILES. Survey Project Manager
DOW PIPELINE & PRODUCTS – Survey Project Manager - Multiple Refinery & Pipeline Projects.

2002 Mapco - Survey Project Manager
George worked closely with BLM and Department of Defense to plan new pipeline routes for two existing pipelines in environmentally sensitive government lands in Durango, Colorado. Supervised 3 field crews by leading efforts for topo and boundary reconciliation; generated all field data for design and established GPS Control Network.

2003 City of Houston GIS - Survey Project Manager
George worked directly with the City of Houston and multiple oil and chemical refinery operation companies to field collect and homogenize acquired field data in GIS-Format and delivered the final ESRI product that imported directly into the existing City of Houston GIS Enterprise System for compliance with City’s Ordinances.

2001 National Geodetic Survey (NGS) - GPS Specialist
George worked directly with NGS personnel to determine subsidence and geodetic elevation adjustments for Houston-Galveston Subsidence District through four days of GPS Static methodology throughout Harris and Galveston counties for the NGS 2002 Datum Adjustment and Tropical Storm Allison FEMA resolutions.

2000-2001 TX DOT - GPS Specialist & Survey Project Manager
Used Javad and Ashtech RTK total stations for production work for aerial photography, major boundary and ROW expansion projects. Designed, implemented and trained company personnel on GIS data collection procedures. Successfully trained all GPS field crews using Ashtech and Javad with GPS Systems & TDS software. Managed and maintained all company GPS equipment. Covered 5 different TxDOT Districts.
Managed GPS field survey efforts for Section 9 of the I-10 widening project, from Mason to Fry.

1998 Fina - Lead Survey Technician & Survey Project Manager
Start-up phase of an 80-mile project. Responsible for training multiple field crews on mapping and survey grade Trimble GPS equipment and procedures for GIS-Format data collection and management. Designed and implemented data acquisition and processing parameters for GIS integration, data reduction and data flow organization and training for office personnel.

Some other Project Highlights George has participated on, in a Field Position:

Various Clients, Varied Projects, Successful results.

Survey/GPS Technician & Crew Chief on numerous projects
Performed numerous oil lease, subdivision, boundary and golf course layout jobs in Texas and Louisiana, utilizing RTK, Fast Static and Static forms of GPS as well as conventional data collection. Responsible for training field crews in office and field procedures, limitations and applications for all facets of GPS and conventional surveying. In addition, actively supervised multiple GPS geodetic control surveys throughout the country.

Beta tested Trimble Navigations very first RTCM and RTK total stations before they were introduced to the public market. George was one of a 2-man Team that provided rigorous field-testing and troubleshooting while working with Trimble directly so they could incorporate the found issues into the first-release models.
George was soon-after elected to become part of an elite GPS Team establishing Primary Control Networks and RTD methodologies for projects across the country. Later, he became Team Leader and trainer for GPS systems, which at the time were still in their infancy.

Being trained in advanced data collection systems and methodology from multiple crew chiefs and equipment sets, coming through the ranks, George was exposed to many different ways to accomplish the same bottom-line tasks. George later led the only “in-town” crew and participated in countless different types of surveys from Subdivision and utility layouts to large diameter prelim and as-built projects for many types of products as well as working in chemical Plants, Refineries, Valve and Metering sites and Compressor Stations. He also performed an as-built survey of 8 miles of 72” underground Force Water main.

Shell Pipeline Company - Lead Survey Crew Chief
26 miles of ROW acquisition/fee purchasing utilizing conventional data collection in a Houston Lighting and Power corridor with high accuracy ties mandated for HL&P Tower piers. Ran pipeline through the center of the towers for a majority of the way while mapping the entire corridor.

Exxon Pipeline Company - Lead Survey Crew Chief
Led 4 man crew on subdivision and sensitive properties in Friendswood Texas, routing and performing data acquisition for an 8" MTBE line re-routing. George performed fieldwork under the direction of the Project RPLS for 45 condemnation boundary surveys throughout the town of Friendswood, Texas. Used conventional and RTK methodologies. Derived primary control from NGS monumentation.

TEPPCO Pipeline Company - Lead Survey Crew Chief
600 mile GIS mapping phase of two existing cross-country pipelines, originating in Houston and ending in Missouri. Utilized GPS for data collection method. Responsible for collecting, processing and analyzing GIS field data.

Sprint/AT&T - Survey Crew Chief
Numerous mapping projects for existing and proposed utility/telecommunication routes. Responsibilities included abstraction at local municipalities followed by data collection, utilizing both GPS and conventional methods.

Government of Saipan - Lead Survey Crew Chief
Lava flow volume survey on Pagan Island (200 miles north of Guam) for the governing bodies of Saipan. Used continuous kinematic GPS data collection to map the entire side of a live volcano’s lava deposits and hydrographic seismic methods to map sub-terrain profiles for proposed Fly-Ash Loading dock and facility.
Exxon Oil Company - Survey Crew Chief / Instrument Man - Oil lease and well location surveys. Responsible for relocation and re-establishment of corner monuments and boundary lines on over 3000 acres of rural farmland, followed by establishment of wellhead locations.