Meet Our Highly Qualified Technical Staff
We maintain a well-qualified and professional staff. Competent and experienced in applicable knowledge and skills. We hold required state certifications/licenses in our areas of expertise. Our years of experience also qualify us to teach and mentor those who strive to work in our technical environment.
Robert (Bob) H. Saxton
Education Summary:
- Bachelor of Science –Mechanical Engineering –University of Florida (1971)
Registration:
Experience Summary:
Bob Saxton has a diverse professional career that has spanned 49 years. Following graduation with a BSME in 1971, he began his engineering career working on the Skylab Project in the early 1970’s. When that program ended, he began a long career with Monsanto/Solutia. He worked in maintenance and project roles at both the senior engineer and management levels. He served in a senior staff position for 10 years at the Cholate Bayou Site managing the human resource, quality control and employee training functions. He finished his manufacturing career as a senior maintenance engineer on a steel mill manufacturing line in Mobile, Alabama. After moving to Texas in 2015, Mr. Saxton worked in the private sector as a professional engineer and management consultant. In the 2019-2020 school year, he taught pre-engineering coursework at Angleton High School.
o Teledyne Brown Engineering
Huntsville, Alabama
- Ground support equipment design in support of the launch of the Skylab Vehicle
o Monsanto/Solutia
Pensacola, Florida
- Maintenance and Project Engineering St. Louis, Missouri
- Maintenance/Project Management Alvin, Texas
- Maintenance Training Management Foley, Alabama
- Human Resource/Quality Control
o Thyssenkrupp/AM-NS Steel
Mobile, Alabama
- Senior Maintenance Engineer—Cold Rolling Mill
o Damian & Associates
Freeport, Texas
- Registered Professional Engineer for Firm
- Managed the residential land surveying business
o Angleton High School
Angleton, Texas
- Taught 4 pre-engineering courses (9-12)
Joseph (Joe) D. Williams
Registered Professional Land Surveyor
Education Summary:
- Civil Engineering (2 ½ years) Texas A&M University
- Geodetic Surveying Training 2nd Missile Command, U.S. Army
Registration:
- Registered Professional Land Surveyor (R.P.L.S.)- Texas # 1782
Experience Summary:
Joe Williams is an experienced Registered Professional Land Surveyor, licensed in Texas (1782). He spent the majority of his career (45 years) in the pipeline industry in which he contributed to all phases of the pipeline installation and repair processes. A highlight of his career was his supervision of the routing and installation of a 485-mile underwater installation of a pipeline from Mobile, Alabama to Tampa, Florida. Mr. Williams brings a level of skill, quality and project deliverables that is highly valued in his specialty.
o Transco Pipeline Company/Williams Pipeline Houston, Texas
- Deed records research; pipeline mapping and easement analyses
- Scout routes and initial survey
- Work with drafting resources on installation documentation
- Construction design and monitoring
- In-progress survey
- Final commissioning and maintenance
- Subsurface(underwater) pipeline routing and installation
o Damian and Associates Freeport, Texas
- Registered Professional Land Surveyor
- Deed and Plat Projects
o Angleton Survey Company Angleton, Texas
- Owner/operator
- Contracted to Diversified Consultants of Texas LLC
Mitchell Thomas (Tom) Hail
Senior Survey Specialist; Civil Engineer
Education Summary:
- Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering- University of Houston
- Master of Engineering- Texas A&M University
Registration:
- Engineer in Training Certificate
Experience Summary:
Tom Hail has worked in the surveying and construction field for 40 years. His career includes assignments in the Texas Gulf coast and in Malaysia. He worked in the family paving business for “hands-on” construction experience. He designed the closure caps on several landfills where the existing waste material exceeded the original plan. He is now working with CAD and creating the drawings of the surveys.
o Angleton Survey Company- Angleton, Texas
- Deed Records research
- Instrument man and party chief
o Baker & Lawson Engineers- Angleton, Texas
- Instrument man on survey field crew
o Brown & Root Construction- Houston, Texas
- Designed water retention ponds for coal fired powerplants
- Designed cable tray supports for Nuclear Power Plant
- Wrote construction procedures for field crews
- Reviewed contract changes for oil platforms in Malaysia
o J&M Construction- Angleton, Texas
- Ran equipment in family asphalt business
o Brazos M&E- Clute, Texas
- Construction Surveys
- Design Landfill Caps
o Damian & Associates- Freeport, Texas
- DOW plant Projects for engineering design
- Deed and Plat Projects