Cook-Sanders Associates, Inc. Team of Professionals
Cook-Sanders Associates, Inc. prides itself in having a diversely qualified staff of professionals that are dedicated to following through on the commitments they make to our clients. On average, our associates have over a decade of experience in civil engineering and land surveying industry, and specialize in a wide array of practices that include; project development, engineering, project and construction management, product technologies, site development, training, maintenance and operation.
Not only do our professionals have a wealth of experience in providing customized solutions, but their varied and unique backgrounds bring additional insight to your project.
Principals
Brent L. Sanders, P.E.
Kyle A. Cook, P.L.S.
Brent has been servicing the civil engineering and engineering consulting industry since 1988, licensed in the State of Utah, the State of Wyoming and the State of Colorado. With over twenty years of hands-on experience in engineering consulting, including Director of Engineering and Principal of Cook-Sanders Associates, Inc. from its commencement in 2001. He has acted in the role of surveyor, designer, project engineer and project manager for a wide variety of projects including industrial and municipal surveying and civil engineering projects. This experience includes pipelines, environmental, gas facilities and collection systems, recreational, wetlands, water rights, water distribution systems, water treatment plants, drainage plans, and airports. He has also worked with clients to create standards and specifications for large scale survey projects.
Education:
Utah State University, 1988
University of Utah, 2000
Bachelor of Civil Engineering
License:
Professional Engineer, Utah #375313
Professional Engineer, Wyoming #10164
Professional Engineer, Colorado #40972
Kyle has been servicing the professional land surveying industry since 1981, and is licensed in the State of Utah. With over twenty years of hands-on experience in surveying, including Director of Surveying and Principal of Cook-Sanders Associates, Inc. from its commencement in 2001. His experience includes numerous projects for Questar Gas, Questar Pipeline, Williams Northwest Pipeline, Kern River Gas Transmission Company, Conoco Phillips, state, county, city and government agencies. Mr. Cook oversees and directs all aspects of the survey department. He is also very competent in ownership research, land acquisition, right-of-ways acquisitions, legal ownership document and exhibit preparation. His additional expertise consists of subdivision surveys, various boundary and property surveys, aerial mapping, design surveys, topographic surveys, and pipeline surveys. Kyle attended Weber State Universities Construction, Surveying and Design programs. He is FERC Certified, Certified as CFed Surveyor, Certified in Right-of-Way Acquisition, Member of the Utah Council of Land Surveyors, Member of the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping, Member of the International Right-of-Way Association.
Education:
Weber State University, 1981
License:
Professional Land Surveyor
Utah #270852
FERC Certified
Certified CFED Surveyor
Licensed Professionals
Doug Schmitt, P.L.S.
Dale Peterson, P.E. and P.L.S.
Doug has been servicing the professional land surveying industry since 1990. He is a licensed land surveyor in the State of Utah and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Utah. Doug's experience includes all aspects of design, construction, and as-built surveying. He has served as project surveyor for a number of public and private projects. His current responsibilities include coordinating survey crews, land ownership research, monitoring and quality control of all survey data, and preparing maps, drawings, spreadsheets or any other final documents requested by the client.
Education:
University of Utah, 2003
Bachelor of Science / Geology
License:
Professional Land Surveyor
Utah #7138123-2201
Dale has been servicing the civil engineering and engineering consulting industry since 1958, his entire professional career he has worked for both public and private agencies. He retired from the State of Utah Department of Transportation in 1980 where he worked as Region Director covering the South half of the State. He had over 400 employees under his direction involved in administration, operations and maintenance, project management, preconstruction, construction, planning, surveying, public involvement, materials, environmental, pavement design and management, traffic and safety, interagency partnering, and access management. In addition, Dale has written technical reports and articles for several National and Regional publications and conferences. Since his retirement in 2000, he has worked part time in Civil Engineering and Land Surveying and has been with Cook Sanders from 2005 to the present. The work with CSA included pipeline easements, exhibits, legal descriptions, boundary descriptions, Licensed Land Surveyor certifications, Corner Recordations, etc.
Education:
University of Wyoming, 1958
Bachelor of Science / Civil Engineering
License:
Professional Engineer
Professional Land Surveyor
Wyoming #579
Jim Borla, P.L.S.
Jared Schofield, E.I.T.
Jared became a fulltime member of Cook-Sanders Associates, Inc. as a Civil Engineer-in-Training in January of 2008. Prior to that, Jared attended the University of Wyoming where he engaged in studying engineering and surveying principles. During his summers as a student Mr. Schofield worked for Cook-Sanders Associates as part of survey crews for many projects. Included in these projects are pipeline surveys for Williams Northwest Pipeline, Questar Gas, and Plains Pipeline. Jared also posses experience in drafting, subdivision layout and design, right-of-ways, ownership research, design surveys, property surveys, and good knowledge of construction processes. Jared is certified in the state of Wyoming as a Civil Engineer-in-Training and is also in pursuit of Land Surveyor-in-Training certification. He also holds certifications from The American Concrete Institute (ACI) and Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) as a Materials Testing Technician Grade 1.
Education:
University of Wyoming, 2007
Bachelor of Science
License:
Engineer in Training, #5107
Jim has been working in the Land Surveying industry since 1976, and is licensed in the state of Utah. Jim’s experience includes section corner research in the field and county offices, aerial mapping, land ownership research, calculations and preparation of legal rights-of-ways and easement documents. Jim performs topographic surveys, ALTA Surveys, prepares plats and legal documents, horizontal and vertical control grids for contractors and surveyors on project sites. He is skilled at establishing control networks using conventional survey equipment and GPS equipment. He has served as project surveyor for large scale public and private projects with a great amount of responsibility.
Education:
Snow College, 1976
Bachelor of Science
License:
Professional Land Surveyor
Utah #167599
