| | Brief History of our Firm | Our past is rooted in two fine companies. Weaver and Associates was founded by Harmon Weaver, a former Elkhart City Engineer. His firm was carried on by his son, John Weaver, who was both a registered Professional Engineer and Land Surveyor. John Weaver served as Elkhart City Engineer and was elected as Mayor of Elkhart as well. He surveyed, designed and planned many major projects in Elkhart County from the 1950's through the 1980's.
Brady Land Surveying was founded by Byron Brady in 1958. For thirty years, the firm specialized in large-scale utility and control surveys requiring highly accurate data. The firm also surveyed a large number of land development projects. In 1988, Mr. Brady passed the firm on to Christian F. Marbach, PLS, and the firm's name changed to Marbach & Brady Land Surveying.
In 1998, Weaver & Associates and Marbach & Brady Land Surveying combined under the name of Marbach, Brady & Weaver, Inc. Under this name, we have an inventory of nearly 40,000 drawings and documents that are a record of land surveying and civil engineering projects in Elkhart County and surrounding areas and also employ the following people. |
| Christian F. Marbach, P.L.S., President | Registered Professional Land Surveyor
State of Indiana - Number 880002
State of Michigan - Number 037280
State of Louisiana - Number 04566
State of Ohio - Number 7563
Mr. Marbach is the owner and president of Marbach, Brady & Weaver, Inc. While overseeing the operations of the firm, Mr. Marbach continues to be actively involved in most of the projects undertaken by the firm. He directly manages a variety of projects including boundary surveys, route surveys, utility surveys, and land development projects. His areas of specific expertise include global positioning systems technology, photogrammetry, and large-scale control surveys. Mr. Marbach is a past president of the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors and is a member of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, Michigan Society of Professional Surveyors, Louisiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors, the International Right-of-Way Association, and the Elkhart Morning Rotary Club. |
| Loren K. Stackhouse, P.L.S., Vice President | Registered Professional Land Surveyor
State of Indiana - Number S0068
Mr. Stackhouse is the most-experienced member of the Marbach, Brady & Weaver team. He manages most of the land surveying projects for the firm. He completes and certifies approximately one hundred surveys annually, including boundary surveys, topographic surveys, land title surveys, location reports, route surveys, utility surveys, and elevation reports. He also oversees the document research required by both land surveying and engineering projects. He consults on other projects in areas such as monumentation and accuracy of deeds and records. Mr. Stackhouse is a member of the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping.
Mr. Stackhouse has nearly forty years of experience in land surveying. He has served in every area of land surveying from fieldwork to certification. As a licensed land surveyor, Mr. Stackhouse has been responsible for the surveying of approximately one thousand miles of utility lines and has completed numerous boundary surveys and land title surveys. He has prepared numerous descriptions, surveyor reports, and other documentation for these projects. Mr. Stackhouse has specific expertise in boundary and ownership disputes, expert legal testimony, and historic aspects of land surveying. |
| Debra Wright-Hughes, P.E., Senior Professional Engineer | Registered Professional Engineer
State of Indiana, 1988, PE60880266
State of Michigan, 1991, 6201037615
State of Illinois, 1987, 062-043928
Mrs. Hughes has been in professional engineering practice for 25 years. She worked in Chicago for the first 14 years of her career. Projects included major site developments in the Chicago suburbs such as civil site construction plans and specifications for the Chicago Transit Authority's Davis Street Station in Evanston, Illinois for the City of Evanston and Stormwater Management at Chicago-Read Mental Health Center for the Illinois Capital Development Board.
She served as Project Engineer for major roadway projects in Chicago and suburbs such as Construction plans and specifications for new freeway entrance ramp at new Illinois State Toll Highway Authority(ISTHA) Building to I-355, EIS and Preliminary Engineering for Relocation of Illinois 13 in Saline County, Illinois for Illinois Department of Transportation(IDOT), Preliminary Engineering for a grade separation structure and railroad track relocation for the Indiana Harbor Belt and Wisconsin Central Railroads over Grand Avenue in Franklin Park, Illinois for IDOT, and Preliminary Engineering for interchange improvements on I-94 at Baker and Zeeb Roads in Washtenaw County, Michigan for the Washtenaw County Highway Department.
She prepared major drainage studies such as the construction plans and specifications for Wetland Mitigation at Ross Park, in Columbus, Ohio for Abbott Laboratories.
Mrs. Hughes also served as Coordinating Engineer for the City of Chicago Department of Transportation. She was responsible for technical activities on multi-disciplinary transportation engineering projects in Chicago on moveable bridges, fixed bridges over waterways, and grade separation bridges to be constructed with Federal and State funds. She was responsible for programming and expenditure of the City's annual $25 million bridge rehabilitation program and was responsible for direction of a staff of ten senior level engineering project managers and responsible for direction of up to 40 consulting engineering firms working on City bridge engineering projects.
After her return to her home town of Elkhart, Mrs. Hughes served as Traffic Engineer for the City of Elkhart. In this position, she conducted traffic studies and make recommendations for safety and traffic flow in Elkhart, including intersections, traffic signals, traffic speed studies, neighborhood traffic studies and working with the City Traffic Operations staff to implement needed changes.
Mrs. Hughes has been with Marbach, Brady & Weaver, Inc. since 2003 and has been responsible for the Civil Engineering Department as well as being Project Engineer for a variety of Site Development, Roadway Designs, Traffic Engineering Studies and Drainage Studies and Plans for a variety of projects. Detailed projects are listed here.
In addition, Mrs. Hughes has served as Associate Faculty at both IV Tech State College and Indiana University-South Bend's Elkhart Campus. She has taught Introduction to Computing and Introductory Algebra. |
| Steven T. Parsons, P.L.S. | Registered Professional Land Surveyor
State of Indiana - Number 20500016
State of Michigan - Number 400153505
Mr. Parsons is a registered Land Surveyor in both Indiana and Michigan. In addition, he brings with him extensive field and managerial expertise. Mr. Parsons served as Crew Chief for Marbach, Brady & Weaver, Inc. for 6 years prior to obtaining his Land Surveying license. During this time he managed field work and field crews in a variety of projects including boundary surveys, route surveys, utility surveys, topographic surveys and land development projects. He continues to expand his knowledge of global positioning systems technology, photogrammetry, and large-scale control surveys. Mr. Parsons is a member of the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors. |
| Don Brown, Jr.,Manager of Field Operations and Quality Control | | As Manager of Field Operations and Quality Control, Don Brown is an essential member of the Marbach, Brady & Weaver team. He serves as the primary liaison between the office staff and the field staff. He directs the survey crews as they collect data in the field, and then processes that data and passes it on to the office staff for survey or design purposes. His responsibilities also include scheduling, purchasing of supplies and equipment, and safety management. |
| Mark A. Reavis, IT Director/Database Manager/Technician | | As Information Technology Director, Mr. Reavis is charged with developing and expanding the computer hardware and software used by the office and field staff to prepare the land survey and engineering work for our clients. This is a critical position for the company. Mr. Reavis also oversees the development and expansion of the SQL database and applications for all company records. This includes the past project records over the 80 years of company history, over 30,000 drawings on file, client information, financial records and all company information. He has designed and developed this SQL database as a custom application for MBW. He also oversees creating the company web pages and continually improving the MBW computer systems. Mr. Reavis oversees the company Local Area Network and Wide Area Network utilizing the Internet. |
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