Pub. 10 2015 Issue 1

7 Issue 1 2015 / UCLS Foresights www.ucls.org D anial L. Perry is the second son of William and RaNae Perry born in Roseburg, Oregon on July 16th, 1957. He has one older brother and twoyounger sisters raised inOregon. Dan attended Brigham Young University (BYU) as a freshman in 1975, shifted his career goals to Drafting and Design Technology and earned an AAS degree from Utah Technical College (UTC) in 1982 with a focus on Civil/ Survey Drafting, and Mechanical Drafting. He went to work for CH2M Hill on the “new” Intergraph CAD system doing civil drafting. Ten years later with work experience in manufacturing and civil design he earned a bachelor’s degree in Management from Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon. In 1994 Dan decided to join forces with his father as a joint owner in Perry Engineering and Associates, a Civil Engineering and Surveying firm located in Central Oregon. This seemed like a logical move because he had been surveying with his dad since he was 15 years old. However, after 7 years and an economic downturn on the horizon the firm decided to reduce in size and he moved his wife and family of four to Boise, Idaho where he continued to work as a Civil Designer and Surveyor. While there he formed a 3D scanning business with his employer. The business was only part-time and there was a high demand for civil designers in Las Vegas, Nevada so he and his fam- ily spent two years working for a regional civil engineering firm. During those two years he began his graduate work and in 2006 completed an MBA fromtheUniversity of Phoenix. In 2005, Dan accepted the position of Instructor at Utah Valley University (UVU) (his old alma mater, Utah Technical College) teaching Surveying, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Civil drafting, and Mechanical drafting. Dan is currently a tenured Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for the Geomatics 4-year degree program at Utah Val - ley University. Over a period of three and half years in which the program was de- veloped he also successfully completed the remaining requirements for licensure as a Professional Land Sur- veyor in the State of Utah, including six surveying courses, the NCEES exams, and the State specific Utah Surveyors practices exam. His primary goals for the future are to develop the new Geomatics program to a point where it can achieve ABET/ASAC accreditation and become known as a regional Geomatics degree program. Dan has 28 years of full-time industry experience including: 17 years in Civil Design and Land Surveying, 10 years in Mechanical/Industrial Design, 2 years in Sales/Marketing, and a total of 17 years as the owner of three different engineering and surveying firms in Oregon, Idaho, and now Utah. DANIAL L. PERRY, MBA, PLS SURVEYOR OF THE YEAR RECIPIENTS 2014 Danial Perry 2013 Darryl Fenn 2012 Arthur LeBaron 2011 Steve Keisel 2010 Jerry Allred 2009 John Stahl 2008 Dan Knowlden, Sr. 2007 Keith Hafen 2006 Walt Cunningham 2005 Ernest Rowley 2004 RonWhitehead 2003 Dale Bennett 2002 Robert Knox 2001 Nelson Marshall 2000 Richard Kimball 1999 Martin Moore 1998 Robert Jones UCLS Congratulates Dan on his accomplishments and the recognition of his peers