David Cook

Experience

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  Jackson Surveying

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  Draftsman

  Worked as a Draftsman, creating sewer modifications, repair and locate plats for various sanitary boards. Drafting of well site and permit plans for small independently owned oil and gas companies. Creation of Right of Way plats for utilities and private home owners. Land title research and courthouse deed research duties.

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  Thrasher Engineering, Inc

  Dec 2005 - Sept 2006

  Survey CAD Technician

  Worked as a Survey CAD Tech, creating survey plats layouts for planning project of water, wastewater and storm drainage facility projects. Created, piping maps, compressor stations, and site layouts maps for production of facilities. Also worked as a Rodman in the field for numerous conventional bounty and site location plats for private customers and companies. Responsible for creation of connivance plats for Right of Way projects for housing developments. Creation of mine conveyance plats in mine subsidence claims for property owners and coal companies. Show less

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  Stantec

  Oct 2006 - Sept 2008

  CADD Designer/GIS Technician Oil&Gas

  Worked on a contract basis in the Chesapeake Energy Charleston, WV office, mapping oil and gas leases, wells and pipeline locations, making exhibit maps mapping oil/gas leases (featuring competitor’s leased/current acreages). Worked as contract project leader, reconciling updates of Columbia Gas leases using GIS and AutoCAD and mapped acquisitions of acquired Columbia Gas leases.

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  Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding

  Sept 2008 - May 2010

  Designer 2

  Utilized Catia and AutoCAD in production of fabrication and assembly drawings for firefighting systems, oil/gas distribution systems, freshwater/portable water systems and other liquid and gas-based systems for the CVN 78 project, fabrication shops, and various shipyard production groups. Created fabrication drawings with proper specifications for pipe fitters, welders, machinists, and tradesmen producing piping for the ship.

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  EQT Corporation

  May 2010 - Nov 2010

  Designer

  Reviewed project specifications, design instructions, plot plans, flow diagrams, line list/supplier information, and administrative/technical practices. Utilized all the above in performing manual and computer layouts. Drew and updated material and stress sketches. Communicated and interfaced with other project design and engineering disciplines.

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  Weatherford

  Nov 2010 - Oct 2011

  Well Planner

  Plan and re-plan wells, under limited supervision as required. Prepare initial planning for directional and horizontal wells and anti-collision analysis (using ellipses and tool errors model). Input, calculate, and validate surveys daily. Generate a plan view and graphical presentations of the directional profile.

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  Lumberport Shinnston Gas Company

  Oct 2011 - Feb 2012

  GIS Technician/Cad Designer

  Provide technical maps in AutoCAD and GIS for the LSG & BOG natural gas distribution system. Conducts field surveys for upcoming new projects and leak detection. safety program. Also hold safety instruction and training classes for the field service technicians and equipment operators.

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  Dominion Energy

  Feb 2012 - now

  Prepare final drawings and exhibits from engineering sketches, verbal instructions, specifications and supporting documentation according to latest industry and client standardsAssist Engineers with collecting and analyzing field dataPerform calculations for detailed design drawings and exhibits while maintaining production schedulesVarious tasks using Smallworld (GIS software) to conduct spatial analysis and calculations for Dominion’s pipelines

  • Designer II

    Oct 2019 - now

  • Senior Draftsman (GIS Small World/Autodesk)

    Feb 2012 - now

  • Designer II

    Feb 2012 - now
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  Duke Energy Corporation

  May 2022 - now

  • Lead GIS Technologist

    May 2023 - now

  • Senior GIS Technologist

    May 2022 - now
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  Brightpoint Community College

  Mar 2024 - now

  Adjunct Instructor

  Continuing education and semester ESRI ArcGIS Pro and Autodesk Civil 3D part of the Surveying and Geographic Information Systems program.