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For Immediate Release, 2 September 2008
For More Information, Contact:
Karen Wiesneski
262-317-3292

R.A. Smith National Employees Earn Professional Survey Certifications, Others Promoted

BROOKFIELD, WIS.  – Several Survey Division employees of R.A.Smith National’s Brookfield office have either earned professional certifications or received a promotion. R.A. Smith National (formerly R.A.Smith & Associates and its National Survey & Engineering Division) is a civil engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture, GIS and 3D visualization consultant, headquartered in Brookfield, Wis.

Alan Geary, survey field technician, has earned his certified survey technician (CST) III certification. Geary lives in the city of Milwaukee.

Michael Glime, survey field technician, has earned his certified survey technician (CST) II certification. Glime lives in the city of New Berlin.

Paul Sims has been promoted from survey technician III to project surveyor. Sims lives in the city of Mequon.

Shane Zodrow has been promoted from survey office technician to project surveyor/engineer. He has also recently received his certification as a registered land surveyor in the state of Wisconsin. Zodrow lives in the city of Brookfield.

About R.A. Smith National, Inc.
R.A. Smith National, Inc., www.rasmithnational.com, is a multi-disciplinary consulting engineering firm. It is one of Wisconsin’s largest civil engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture, geographic information system (GIS) and 3D visualization consulting firms with 243 total employees. The company is headquartered in Brookfield, Wis. with offices in Appleton, Oshkosh and Madison, Wis. and Tarentum (Pittsburgh), Pa. R.A. Smith National serves state and local government and the land development industry.

Established in 1978 as R.A. Smith & Associates, Inc., the firm acquired National Survey & Engineering in 1994. National Survey & Engineering, founded in 1929, operated as a division of R.A. Smith & Associates, Inc. until the R.A. Smith National brand was created in March 2008.

The company has been the recipient of several awards, the most recent of which include Milwaukee Magazine’s Best Employers to Work For in Southeastern Wisconsin in 2008, ranked No. 11 in the medium-size company category (101 to 499 employees). The firm previously was recognized for the same award in 2001, 2003 and 2005. The firm received The Business Journal’s Beyond the Paycheck award in 2003, 2004 and 2005 and its Top Milwaukee Workplaces 2007 award. Nationally, the firm was recognized by CE News’ Best Civil Engineering Firms to Work For, for the last four consecutive years, in 2007 ranked No. 7 among medium-sized civil engineering firms nationwide.

R.A. Smith National’s mission is to design with vision, deliver excellence, and provide the most responsive service to our clients. The company is driven by core values that include accountability, client satisfaction, innovation, positive work environment, ethics and integrity, and community and professional involvement.

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