Principals

Harold A. Phelps, P.E., L.S.
President

Harold is a registered professional engineer and licensed land surveyor with 20 years of civil engineering and surveying experience. His responsibilities have included the design of arterial and residential streets, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, water mains, subdivision platting, storm water quality and detention, flood studies, and bank stabilization projects.

Harold’s experiences in numerous flood studies control projects have established him as an authority in the Johnson County area. His experience with the Tomahawk Creek flood study established the “prototype” by which all SMAC flood studies are presently being performed. His experience with local dam design and construction provides a strong background of permitting through regulatory authorities, hydrology, hydraulics and outlet structures analysis.

Wendell D. Ubben
Principal

Wendell has 30 years experience in the supervised design, inspection, plan preparation, and surveying of residential/arterial streets, sanitary sewers, drainage systems, water mains, and reinforced concrete structures.

His experience is primarily in the field of civil engineering design of single family developments. His experience also includes civil engineering design of apartment complexes, shopping centers, and office parks. His participation includes supervising plan preparation for streets, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, street lighting, utility lines, and grading.

Roger L. Cassity, P.E.
Project Manager

Roger is a registered professional engineer with over 19 years of commercial and residential land development engineering and surveying. His responsibilities have included project management and design of arterial and residential streets, storm sewers, stormwater detention basins, flood studies, sanitary sewers, pump stations and force mains, trunk sanitary sewers, water mains and railroad spur lines.

Roger has had project management and design responsibility for numerous single and multi-family subdivisions, office and office/warehouse buildings, recreational facilities and over 200 acres of commercial developments with major retail and grocery anchors in the Kansas City area and the States of Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.

Thomas D. Phelps, L.S.
Survey Party Chief

The past 13 years, Tom has performed all phases of Design and Construction Staking. The last four (4) years he has been responsible for all surveying services completed at Phelps Engineering, Inc.

Tom is a licensed surveyor and has worked on a wide variety of survey projects, in the office as well as in the field. As a Survey Party Chief with Phelps Engineering, Tom is in charge of a variety of projects including municipal, commercial, and residential subdivisions, right-of-way maps, ALTA surveys and general plan amendments.

Douglas E. Ubben, L.S.
Survey Coordinator


Doug’s responsibilities include assigning survey crews to daily duties, office and field research for all phases of survey projects, obtaining plats and ownerships, drawings for boundary and ALTA surveys and office calculations for a variety of projects.

Doug has extensive background in the field of surveying, including GPS data collection, digital level runs and analog field data systems. He will be responsible for all field data acquisition activities related to this project.