UTILITY MAPPING SERVICES, INC. PRINCIPAL ENGINEER / PRESIDENT
Phil has 26 years of utility engineering (UE) experience and co-founded UMS in 2002 to execute UE as a rigorous discipline involving geophysical, geodetic, and engineering expertise. He’s currently:
• Chair for ASCE 75 Standard Guideline for Recording and Exchanging Utility Infrastructure Data (initiating the standard development effort in 2012)
• Governor for the Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute
• 2020-21 Chair for the ASCE UESI Utility Risk Management Division
• Committee member for the ASCE 38-22 revision
• ASCE Liaison for the Open Geospatial Consortium Model for Underground Data Definition and Integration (MUDDI) Standard
• Committee member and former Chair of UESI’s SUE and Utility Investigations Committee
• Associate member of UESI’s Utility Coordination Committee
• TRB Utilities (AKD60) Committee Associate Member
• An instructor for the ASCE UESI Utility Investigation School
Phil recently co-authored the July 2020 NCHRP Task 418 report "An Impact and Value Analysis of Requiring Geospatial Locations for Utility Installation As-Builts". He regularly presents utility data acquisition and risk management practices to audiences nationwide in the U.S. and Canada.
Phil has been a member of the ASCE Construction Institute for over 20 years, and the Utility Engineering and Surveying Institue since it was chartered.
EDUCATION
M.Sc., Geophysical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1986
B.Sc., Industrial Engineering, Iowa State University, 1983
Phil has managed or directed over 1,200 utility engineering projects across the nation, including several major pipeline projects involving high pressure natural gas transmission, liquid natural gas, and water transmission.
Phil previously worked for the Federal government as a NOAA Corps commissioned officer assigned to the National Ocean Survey and National Geodetic Survey divisions. He later served as a construction field engineer for Washington Corp., and a principal engineer and project manager for Harding ESE, A MACTEC Company, (now Wood), for projects including several interstate reconstructions and highway interchange and round-a-bout designs. Phil grew up in Iowa, but his wife is from Montana, so they live there where they have four married children, and six grandchildren. His hobbies include tinkering with Ford Model Ts.