Thomas has completed more than 300 projects, including leading, designing, and managing land/site development/redevelopment and building construction/renovation projects.
In 2023, Thomas began his engineering practice in the private sector again following over a decade as an engineer with the US Army at Fort Bragg and over a decade prior to that as an engineer in the private sector.
He was first exposed to the engineering and construction fields as a teenager, working on land surveying field crews in his father’s business. He continued working part-time for his father and as a part-time construction and landscaping laborer on various jobs until he began his studies as an engineering student.
For the first decade of his engineering career he planned, analyzed, surveyed, designed, and inspected sites and buildings on a near daily basis. He was mentored by an engineer in sole practice that provided both civil and mechanical engineering services as well as by his father, a land surveyor and land planner whose bachelor’s degree was in agricultural engineering. Projects during this time were largely real estate investment focused and included residential subdivision development, commercial strip mall renovation, commercial building retrofit, retail building construction, and custom home construction, among others. In addition to site and subdivision planning, he learned to design and prepare detailed construction documents for all of the major systems required; foundations, HVAC, landscaping, lighting, plumbing, roadways, roofs, stormwater, sanitary sewer, structural, walls, water supply, and wiring. (This was an unusually comprehensive mentoring experience in engineering.) Since that time, in addition to continued site development / redevelopment and building construction / renovation work, he has provided a variety of advanced engineering services for ecosystem restoration, stormwater management, energy generation, and wastewater treatment.
His formal and informal education has been broad, both in engineering and in other subjects. Thomas holds a bachelors degree in civil engineering, a bachelors degree in environmental engineering, a masters degree in civil engineering, and has completed coursework and research in a dual PhD program with majors in applied physics and biosystems engineering.
His projects have spanned from a few weeks to more than 5 years in duration and have ranged from a few thousand to more than 500 million dollars in construction value.
He particularly enjoys developing practical, cost effective, low-to-no maintenance, and high efficiency solutions.
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