Henry D. Purvis: Professional Surveyor

After joining the Air Force and serving during the Gulf War in 1990 - 1992 I began my surveying
career as a rodman for Culpepper & Carmichael Surveyors. I worked for Greg, Murphy was retired
and only drafting, and Danny Hall was the Party Chief. After about 2 years I took a job with
Engineering Plus, Inc., just after Terrell Temple, P.E., P.L.S. took over the company from Jimmy
Kemp, Mr. Kemp was actually still working out of the building when I started. I ran a crew part of
the time and worked on a crew the other part, I learned about Global Positioning Systems (one of
the first firms in the area to purchase such state of the art equipment at the time). I used mostly
Leica Instruments, HP48 data collectors with TDS software. I eventually went back to work for
Culpepper and Carmichael and learned to use the HP 48 with SMI software, and I picked up some
autocad basics. Fast forward a few years....I took a job with an Engineer and Land Surveyor at their
newly created company, Engineers, Surveyors and Inspection (ESI). I worked as a rodman for this
firm only about 6 months, until I got their first party chief trained. During the time I was working
for ESI I worked on honing my CAD skills and was able to get a job with Engineering Plus, Inc.
again, only this time it was a draftsman position. I worked for Engineering Plus for the next few
years and had a wide variety of tasks including; Survey Crew Manager, Senior Draftsman, and
eventually took over the Network Administrator job as well. During this time I worked on Projects
ranging from small boundary surveys to large building and parking lot layouts, I performed volume
calculations for Waste Management and Big River Industries and used Global Positioning to
perform Control Surveys for Aerial Photography. After working for E.P. for several years I was
recruited by the City of Meridian to fill an Engineering Technician position. While working at the
city, I was introduced to Eagle Point software and Arcview for GIS mapping, I left after only a year
and a half to pursue a new career in Radiologic Technology. Two years later, while working at Jeff
Anderson Regional Medical Center, I graduated as Class President from X-ray school with high
honors and a member of Phi Theta Kappa. During this time I never gave up on pursuing my
Professional License in Land Surveying. Finally, In 2006, I received my Professional Licensure in
Land Surveying and found myself looking at a great opportunity to began a career as a Professional
Surveyor with over 20,000 reference surveys and more work coming in than I could handle. I have
a good customer base and look forward to serving many more people and businesses in
Lauderdale, Clarke and surrounding Counties. Nobody ever said it would be easy, in fact they said,
"if it was easy - everybody would be doing it." (Greg Carmichael)