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Charles F. Hardin, Jr., P.E.

Charles F. Hardin, Jr. is the president and co-founder of Southern Engineering & Surveying, Inc. of Rome, Georgia.

Mr. Hardin is a native of Rome and Floyd County. He grew up in this area and attended Floyd County Schools. Upon graduation he also attended both Coosa Valley Technical College and Georgia Highlands College (formerly Floyd College), which are located in Rome. Mr. Hardin has strong ties to his community and takes pride in his service of this area.

Mr. Hardin has over 14 years of experience in design and management of a broad array of engineering projects. Early in his career, Mr. Hardin worked with Associated Engineering Consultants, Inc. in Roswell, Georgia where he worked on many roadway, infrastructure and site development projects in the metro Atlanta area, as well as extensive design along the GA 400 North corridor in the Mansell area. In 1996, Mr. Hardin returned to Floyd County to work as a project engineer on a wide range of municipal and private developments. He has since designed and managed multiple commercial and residential development projects ranging from single retail\office developments to multi-million dollar commercial retail centers. He has also designed large scale residential neighborhood developments and large municipal water and sewer projects. His responsibilities have included site grading and pavement design, stormwater management, hydrologic analysis, erosion & sediment control, sanitary sewer and water system design, Roadway/Highway design and layout. Mr. Hardin has been involved in the design and management of several large scale grading and erosion and sediment control projects which consisted of mass grading of commercial and residential project sites. Mr. Hardin was the design engineer on many recreational and athletic facilities in the area including the Darlington Huffman Center, various Darlington multi-use fields, The Shorter College Ledbetter Baseball Complex, Shorter College football practice field, Shorter College intramural/multi-use fields as well as others.

Professional Registration
•Georgia Registered Professional Engineer
•Georgia Registered Land Surveyor in Training
•Georgia Certified Design Professional in Erosion & Sediment Control

Field of Competence
•Project Management
•Roadway Design
•Hydrology
•Site Development
•Erosion & Sediment Control

Education
•B.S. Civil Engineering (minor in Surveying & Mapping)
Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA, 1996.
•Associates Degree, Applied Science, Floyd College, 1992.

Professional Affiliations
•National Society of Professional Engineers
•Georgia Society of Professional Engineers
•American Society of Civil Engineers

Key Projects:

Roadway Projects
Design Engineer – South and Southeast Rome Bypass Projects for the Georgia Department of Transportation including layout and alignment as well as drainage design.

Design Engineer – Huffaker Road widening project for Floyd County including layout and alignment as well as drainage design.

Project Manager – Legacy Drive for the City of Rome including overseeing and participating in design of roadway.

Design Engineer – U.S. Highway 27 widening project (Chattooga/Walker counties) for the Georgia Department of Transportation including layout and alignment, traffic control and drainage design.

Project Manager – Industrial Roadway for the Northwest Georgia Industrial Park off of Hermitage Road in Floyd County including managing development of the roadway a well as the entire park.

Project Manager – Multiple streets in Floyd, Bartow, Polk and Gordon counties for residential subdivisions and commercial developments.

Other Relevant Projects:

  • Citi Center/Riverside Parkway Brownfields Development – Rome, GA
  • Floyd County Work Release Center & Public Works Facility – Rome, GA
  • Coosa Valley Technical College Aviation facility – Rome, GA
  • Riverbend Office Development – Rome, GA
  • Social Security Administration Office Facility – Rome, GA
  • Dalton Annex – Dalton, GA
  • River Walk Development – Rome, GA
  • Riverbend Development – Rome, GA
  • Highlands at East Ellijay – Ellijay, GA
  • Main Street Cartersville – Cartersville, GA
  • Floyd College Bartow Campus – Cartersville, GA
  • Coosa Valley Technical College Allied Health Center – Rome, GA
  • Darlington School Huffman Athletic Center – Rome, GA
  • Darlington School Girls Housing – Rome, GA
  • Floyd County Health Department – Rome, GA
  • Battle Farm Subdivision – Rome, GA
  • Emerald Oaks Subdivision – Rome, GA
  • North Quarters Subdivision – Rome, GA
  • Mountain Crest Subdivision – Rome, GA
  • Foothills Subdivision – Rome, GA
  • Keystone Subdivision – Rome, GA


Kenneth M. Reynolds, R.L.S.

Kenneth M. Reynolds is the vice president and co-founder of Southern Engineering & Surveying, Inc., Rome, Georgia.

Mr. Reynolds is a life-long resident of Chattooga County, Georgia, and has over 20 years of surveying experience involving a wide range of projects.  He is the Vice President and Director of Surveying Services for Southern Engineering & Surveying, Inc. He has extensive experience surveying for transportation related projects.  His experience with these projects includes: preliminary route alignment, drainage surveys, creating cross-sections and profiles, existing and proposed Right of Way alignments, property acquisition determinations, and staking for construction and Right of Way.  His involvement with transportation projects includes: Georgia DOT projects in Chattooga, Walker, Floyd, and Polk Counties. Floyd County road improvement projects include Turner Bend, Old Dalton, Chulio, Huffaker and Chubb Roads.

Professional Registration
  • Georgia Registered Land Surveyor, January 1994
  • Alabama Professional Land Surveyor, June 1994

Education
  • B.S. Civil Engineering Technology
Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA, June 1983

Experience
  • Williams, Sweitzer and Barnum, Inc., Rome, GA
Chief Field Surveyor, September 1992 – August 2006
Supervised field activities of engineering/surveying firm including involvement with computations and certification of some plats. Projects included:  Major transportation projects, sewer designs, topographic surveys, ALTA surveys, subdivisions, boundary surveys, and construction stake-out.

  • Spriggs Paving Co., Inc., Armuchee, GA
Assistant field engineer, June 1990 – September 1992
Worked with paving contractor helping calculate and stake grade and R/W for DOT highway projects.

  • Carlson Corp., SE, Summerville, GA (Field Office)
Chief Field Engineer, November 1987 – June 1990
Worked for general contractor calculating and staking location and grade for buildings, site work, and utilities during construction of a major state prison complex.
                                                           
  • Grover Higgins and Associates, Rome, GA
Party Chief, May 1987 – November 1987
Worked for small surveying firm involved with all aspects of boundary surveying from courthouse research through field survey to drafting of plat.

  • Williams, Sweitzer and Barnum, Inc., Rome, GA
Instrument Man, February 1986 – May 1987
Worked as instrument man and some duties as party chief on engineering/surveying projects.

  • Grover Higgins and Associates, Rome, GA
Instrument Man/Party Chief, June 1983 – February 1986
Worked for small surveying firm involving all aspects of boundary surveys from field to finish.

  • Maulsby and Associates, Lyerly, GA
Party Chief, June 1981 – September 1981 and June 1982 – September 1982
Part Time – Worked during summers for small boundary surveying firm concurrent with attending college.

Professional Affiliations
  • Active member of Surveying and Mapping Society of Georgia


Pat O’Neal, E.I.T.

Pat O’Neal is the Civil Engineering Project Manager and co-founder of Southern Engineering & Surveying, Inc., in Rome, Georgia.

Mr. O’Neal has over 7 years of experience designing and managing a variety of engineering projects. He has been involved in the design of several roadway projects in Floyd County. He has also designed and managed a variety of municipal, commercial and residential projects. These projects include retail and office developments, industrial developments, large scale residential neighborhood developments and municipal roadway, water and sewer projects. His responsibilities have included roadway design, erosion & sediment control design, hydrologic analyses, site layout design, site grading design, sanitary sewer design, water system design and stormwater management.

Registration
  • GA Registered Engineer in Training, August 2001

Education
  • B.S. Civil Engineering Technology
Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA, August 2001

Military
  • U.S. Marine Corps
Desert Storm Veteran, Honorable Discharge, 1995

Professional Affiliations
  • Georgia Society of Professional Engineers
  • National Society of Professional Engineers

Fields of Competence
  • Roadway Design
  • Erosion & Sediment Control Design
  • Hydrologic Analyses
  • Drainage Design
  • Commercial and Residential Site Development
                                                          
Key Projects

Design Engineer for Huffaker Road improvements Segment 1 for Floyd County. Involved in the design of the horizontal and vertical alignment of the roadway. Also, designed drainage structures and erosion and sediment control structures for the project. Prepared right-of-way acquisition documents for the project.

Designed erosion and sediment control features and drainage structures for the Southeast Rome Bypass Project.

Design Engineer and Project Manager for the Chubb Road improvements. Designed all aspects of the roadway, including horizontal and vertical alignments, drainage design and erosion & sediment control design. Prepared the right-of-way acquisition documents and specifications for the construction of the roadway. Prepared the waterline construction design along the roadway.

Design Engineer and Project Manager for the General Shale Facility along Turners Bend Road in Floyd County, Georgia. Designed site layout and grading for a brick manufacturing facility with multiple buildings at varying elevations. Designed stormwater management system for the site, which included several large brick storage areas and a borrow area.


Thomas R. Hardin

Mr. Hardin is the Surveying Project Manager and has a total of 17 full-time years in the Land Surveying Profession.  In addition to these 17 years, he worked part-time on a survey crew during his high school and college years.  Mr. Hardin is also a co-founder of Southern Engineering & Surveying, Inc.

Experience

8/2006 - Present
Southern Engineering & Surveying, Inc., Rome, Georgia
Surveying Project Manager

Responsible for taking the raw data from the field and transforming that data into usable information for both the Engineering Department and the Surveying Department.  For the engineers, this means production of planimetric data to include preparation of topographical maps.  For the Survey Department, this means preparation of boundary surveys that meet the minimum technical standards and the State’s Plat Act, and if required, the requirements of the American Land Title Association (ALTA).  These drawings include subdivision plats as well as simple lot surveys.

9/2000 - 8/2006
Williams, Sweitzer & Barnum, Inc., Rome, Georgia
Survey Coordinator / CADD Technician / Storm Water Manager / Survey Party Chief

Planned and coordinated day-to-day operations for survey crews.  Prepared boundary surveys, topographic maps, and planimetric information.  Solely responsible for the property resolution on two major Georgia Department of Transportation projects consisting of approximately 5 miles each as well as several small road-widening projects.  This tasks included in-depth deed and plat research and property line calculation and delineation.  Also performed duties as the firm’s storm water manager which duties included conducting daily, weekly, monthly, and post-rainfall inspection of worksites, preparation of Notices of Intent, preparation of all reports required by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, and preparation of all Notices of Termination.  Performed turbidity tests on storm water to ascertain the amount of silt in the water.  Was solely responsible for the resolution of all Global Positioning System (GPS) data from the field so as to provide the firm with horizontal data tied to the State Plane Coordinate System and vertical data tied to Mean Sea Level.  Also worked on survey crew beginning as an instrument man and then as a Survey Party Chief.
                                                         
10/1979 - 9/2000
United States Army
Various Assignments

Served on active duty with the United States Army in various locations.  Supervised soldiers as Company Master Gunner and then as Company First Sergeant in a Tank Company as part of a Tank Battalion.  Performed administrative duties in maintaining soldier’s files to include personnel, health, and financial records.  Performed duties as Battalion Master Gunner in a Tank Battalion on two different assignment, one of which was during Operation Desert Shield / Storm.  Graduated from the Armor Noncommissioned Officer’s Advance Course, Basic Course, and Primary Leadership Development Course.  Graduated from the Master Gunner Course for the M60A1 Tank, then attended and graduated from the Master Gunner Transition Course for the M60A3 Tank and subsequently the M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank.  Attended and completed various courses and schools on different types of simulation equipment and computer technology.  Attended and completed several safety courses as required by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) and the U.S. Army Combat Readiness / Safety Center, Fort Rucker, Alabama.

9/1971 - 9/1979
Horne Associates, Inc., Land Surveyors, Rome, Georgia
Senior Draftsman / Office Manager

Maintained Professional Land Surveyor’s Office.  Performed duties to include all manual calculations necessary to turn field data into boundary surveys, subdivision plats, and architectural surveys.  Prepared preliminary plats, plan - profile sheets, and other such drawings to assist developers in obtaining approval to subdivide property.  Set up and maintained record-keeping system for filing surveys and tracking associated records.  Typed invoices.  Trained junior draftsmen.  Worked on survey crew in every position to include Survey Party Chief, being responsible for the quality and quantity of the field work produced.

Education
6/1969 - 9/1971
Coosa Valley Technical College, Rome, Georgia
Drafting and Design Technology

Certifications
Worksite Erosion Control Supervisor certified by the Georgia Department of
Transportation - Initial training and two recertifications.
Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission Level IA Certified.
Erosion, Sediment, and Pollution Control Inspector certified by the State of Georgia.
Certified operator of C&G Survey Software.
                                                              
Affiliations
Member of Georgia Association of Water Professionals.
Life Member of Enlisted Association of the National Guard of Georgia.
Vice-Chair and Military Liaison of Northwest Georgia and State Military Outreach Director, Georgia Committee for
Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR).
Member of the US Army Armor Association.