Tri State Surveying, Ltd.

Mr. Avery has thirty-two years of progressive land surveying experience. His career started in 1971 as an Engineering Technician for the Sullivan Highway Department in Barryville, New York where he performed various duties on survey crew and acted as an inspector and grade checker on one mile of storm drain installation and later on one mile of road realignment and construction. From 1971 to 1977 Mr. Avery served in a variety of positions where his job duties included survey crew member with main responsibility as instrument man on boundary surveys and construction layout and many secondary roads and subdivisions with experience in building layout on a large high school project and the building of a new barracks on the West Point Army Reservation; as a Survey Crew Instrument Man performing layout of townhouse lots and secondary roads in a large subdivision near Woodbridge, N.Y.; as a Senior Engineering Technician where his duties included survey crew chief and instrument man: calculations for boundary surveys, topographic surveys, and subdivision design and layout and surveying and design of subdivisions, roads, and septic systems, performing construction inspection for secondary roads, septic systems, and public water systems.

In 1977, Mr. Avery served as an Engineer’s Assistant for New York State Electric and Gas Corporation, in Binghamton, New York where his responsibilities included designing and preparing specifications along with field inspection of varied civil engineering projects at five coal fired power plants. Major projects included design and construction supervision of new access roads at three separate power plants and supervision and design of a landfill. Later Mr. Avery served as a Project Surveyor where his duties included all phases of construction layout for a $15 million casino and health spa complex near Reno, Nevada with water and waste water facilities, parking lots, and six miles of underground piping.

From 1982 through 2002, Mr. Avery served as the Principal of Wesco Surveys, Inc. in Las Vegas, Nevada. He performed surveys for: road reconstruction, pipeline route location and construction, boundary and topographic surveys; reviewing Title Reports, Record Maps, Deeds and other title information to prepare right of way maps and legal descriptions for proposed land acquisitions for the Las Vegas Beltway as well as surveys and right-of-way mapping for numerous SNWA and LVVWD facilities.

Mr. Avery enjoys riding ATV's, attending Las Vegas Wranglers hockey games, and visiting Alaska.