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Business & Personal Related Questions: Lance works as Senior Project Design-Construction Engineer / BIM Coordinator / MS Engineer / Professional Geologist in SE Freeways/SE Region at WisDOT. His work involves planning, design, and construction of mega/major/backbone transportation projects typically $100-$500m and also provides BIM-CAD-GIS, LiDAR/integrated survey/reality capture coordination, 3D technologies, and innovation technologies support.  Lance serves as the National Academies of Sciences Co-Chairperson on the BIM for Infrastructure Subcommittee of the TRB ABJ95 Committee and on the Steering Committee of the International Intelligent Technologies Construction Group-IITCG. Lance has over 28 years of industry experience 13 public sector (11 years at WisDOT) and 15 private sector - involving successful digital project delivery in civil infrastructure planning, design, and construction. He has a MS Engineering degree, MS Certificate Urban Planning GIS degree, and a BS Geological Sciences degree from the UW-Milwaukee.
What did you want to be when you grew up? A geologist and worked for an oil company Chevron previously (was UNOCAL at the time) in the early 80’s before becoming a Consulting Engineer and then served in Somalia 1984-1986 doing hydrogeological/water engineering well work/relief/development which led to later founding Hope Without Borders in 2007, while working full-time as an engineer for private/public sector. Family? Julie wife of 43 years with 3 kids Jeremiah, Jenny and Josiah (all of our family is involved in serving in many places globally with Hope Without Borders). Biggest career accomplishment/highlight to date, or what do you like best about your job? Helped design/construct the Marquette Interchange, Zoo Interchange, I-94 N-S corridor/Mitchell Interchange, and other transportation projects and civil projects including Gurnee Mills-IL, Franklin Mills-PA, Potomac Mills-MD, Auburn Hills-MI and other malls, numerous industrial sites, municipal sites, and residential subdivisions, and numerous environmental investigation/remediation superfund, landfill and gasoline station sites. Your favorite hobbies/vacations? Whitewater class 4 rafting out west (usually in Idaho), Camping (living/working in Somalia for 2 years with 2 small kids was camping), and basketball. Rotary Related Questions: How did you find MT Sunrise and what prompted you to join? The friendships and service above self to local and global communities (we have served/worked in over 15 countries with over 500 volunteers). What do you want to do to give back to Rotary and MT Sunrise? Everyone at M-T Sunrise is family - so want to make sure everyone in the club experiences close friendships and opportunities for service locally and globally. |
