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We have over 30 years of Experience!

Robert S. Shotts, PLS, ALSA, CFM

President

Land Surveying and Landscape Architecture Experience Since 1977

 

Professional Experience

 

As president of Robert S. Shotts, Inc. (Shotts, Inc.) and managing member of Ruble, Riggs & Shotts, LLC (RRS), Robert Shotts oversees all aspects of the operation of Shotts, Inc. and, in conjunction with managers Ralph Riggs and Craig Ruble, manages the projects conducted by RRS. His career has included a wide variety of projects including: boundary surveys, geodetic surveys, construction and topographic surveys, landscape architectural design projects, flood plain management, GIS/mapping projects, airport improvement projects, and project management.

 

Professional History

 

1995 – date Robert S. Shotts, Inc.

(Previously Shotts & Hofman, Inc.)

Lebanon, Missouri, President

 

1981 – 1994 Barton Engineering Co, Inc.

Lebanon, Missouri

Vice President, 1988 – 1994

 

1980 – 1981 Private Practice – Landscape Architecture

Lebanon, Missouri – Owner

 

1977 – 1980 City of Lee’s Summit Planning Department

Lee’s Summit, Missouri

Planner/Landscape Architect

 

1971 – 1979 Officer, United States Naval Reserve

Various Locations, Viet Nam Veteran

 

Education

 

1975 – 1977 Graduate Studies, Landscape Architecture

Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas

 

1968-1971 B.S., Forestry, University of Missouri

Columbia, Missouri

 

1966 – 1968 Engineering/Landscape Architecture

Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas

 

County Surveyor

 

1991 – Present Laclede County

 

1989 – 2004 Dallas County

 

2005 – Present Wright County

 

Professional Affiliations

 

* Member of the Landscape Architect Division of the

Missouri State Board of Architects, Professional Engineers

Professional Surveyors and Landscape Architects

 

* Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors (MSPS) – Past

President

 

* MSPS – Chair of Legislative Committee

 

* Missouri Association of County Surveyors – Past President

 

* National Society of Professional Surveyors

 

* Missouri Association of Landscape Architects

 

* American Society of Landscape Architects

 

Awards and Honors

 

* Xi Sigma Pi – Forestry Honorary - 1970

 

* Certificate of Recognition – Prairie Gateway Chapter,

ASLA – 1977

 

* Certificate of Recognition – Missouri Department of Natural

Resources – 1992

 

* Surveyor of the Year – Missouri Society of Professional

Surveyors – 2001

 

* Robert E. Myers Service Award – MSPS – 2005

 

Professional Registrations

 

Professional Land Surveyor

 

P.L.S. 1941   Missouri

P.L.S. 1208   Arkansas

P.L.S. 1107    Kansas

P.L.S. 3094    Illinois

P.L.S. 28287  Colorado

Certified Federal Surveyor-

CFedS 1311

 

Registered Landscape Architect

 

LA 6         Missouri

LA 538     Kansas

LA 172     Arkansas

 

 

 

Robert S. Shotts, Inc. Staff