ALTA Surveying Services in Hattiesburg, Mississippi – A Comprehensive Guide by Poly Surveying

Brett graduated from Troy University in 2006 where he received a Bachelor of Science in Geomatics / Land Surveying and Development. He serves as the managing partner of Polysurveying and is a licensed surveyor in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi & Georgia with over 15 years of land surveying experience. In those years, he has focused on many areas of surveying from ALTA, boundary, construction layout, and subdivision development, which continues to be the focus of the operation, as it stands today. For the last 10 years, he has continuously grown multiple divisions of Polysurveying in the Homebuilding, ALTA, and Drone sectors of the business. Over that period with focus, drive, and determination he has seen the company grow from 12 employees to over 50 all while maintaining the efficiency and reliability that our growing client base deserves.

Brett enjoys the challenge of constantly improving processes with his team for the betterment of the service and product produced to ensure our clients satisfaction. His form of leadership relies on listening, communicating clearly, trust, and growth with his management team and those they lead to ensure they have the proper training, tools, and insight into providing all of their employees a clear path to grow within the company. He understands that people are the driving force of any company that plans to grow and investing back into his people is of the upmost priority to ensure that both their personal and professional lives improve for the betterment of themselves and their families.

Matt has been a partner and licensed surveyor for Polysurveying for over 32 years and is licensed in both Alabama and Mississippi. He specializes in review of surveys tied to Homebuilding process for construction, Elevation Certificates and ALTA surveys. He has extensive background lot and block surveying, boundary, and construction staking of new home construction, roadways, and utilities. In the early stages of his career he worked for Brown & Root for 8 years completing many projects tied to industrial construction surveying at multiple plants across the Southeast. He has overseen the growth and expansion of this company starting in the 90’s and carried forward into current it’s transition to solely a land surveying operation. He has extensive knowledge and leadership mentoring field and office personnel, as well as, helping other up and coming surveyors become licensed as professionals.

Darren has been a partner and licensed surveyor for Polysurveying for over 30 years and is licensed in Alabama. He specializes in large tract Boundary surveys, Topographic surveys, Subdivision development and serves as the company expert witness during court cases. He is over our surveying department for all individual clients which includes communicating with them directly to ensure that all their needs are met and that the survey preformed is to their satisfaction. Darren also enjoys mentoring up and coming surveyors to help develop their surveying knowledge and achieve their career goals.

Chad Orrell graduated from the University of South Alabama with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geography with a minor in GIS in 2012. He’s currently on course to be a Third Generation-Licensed Land Surveyor as an LSIT (Land Surveyor in Training). Currently in a Managerial role he specializes in review of pre-construction layout and design for our Home Building division, as well as, organizing and lining our crews daily. In his early years at Polysurveying he worked as a field crew assistant/draftsman and has worked his way up to becoming a crew chief prior to going to college for Geography. He now has over 14 years of experience and is well on his way to a very bright future at Polysurveying.

Travarus started working for Polysurveying in 2005 as a field technician and very quickly moved up the ranks of the company. He looked to diversify his skillset with the company by moving to their drafting department and providing support as their in-house IT technician. He has over 16 years of extensive surveying knowledge in ALTA, boundary, construction layout and can be relied on to handle most of the work that Polysurveying provides for its client base. He currently leads the ALTA division which covers Alabama, Mississippi, and the Florida Gulf Coast, along with all IT support within the company.

He serves as a member of the Army National Guard, where he has gained extensive skills that transition directly into his leadership role at Polysurveying. Those skills obtained have allowed him to provide training to the Polysurveying team with leadership training, as well as, Computer Science training and certifications. He is a key member of the leadership team at Polysurveying and continues to seamlessly implement new ideas, procedures, and processes, with the use of ever-changing technology, that will propel the company into the future.

Molly was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. After graduating from Murphy High School, she attended The University of South Alabama and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. Molly has quickly become a valuable member of our Administration team here at Poly as our ALTA admin coordinator/accounts manager. Molly works with our ALTA team to ensure schedules are made and completed to guarantee our clients get the best turnaround time in this high paced environment. Since her time here she has helped create a new apprenticeship program with Coastal Alabama Community College for survey drafters, making it the first of its kind in Alabama. When she is not breaking the barriers at Poly, Molly loves to cook, craft, and spend time with her family and friends. Molly is eager to see what the future looks like for Polysurveying.

Born and raised in Mobile, Ryan has over 25 years of outside sales and marketing experience. Having managed territories across the Gulf Coast from Alabama, Florida, to Mississippi; Ryan has built and maintained countless valuable relationships with various business owners and decision makers. Ryan understands that networking is an important part of this position, and that is something he enjoys from day to day.

One of Ryan’s favorite things about being in this position is getting to meet new people and see how everyone runs their business a little bit different, but all aiming for the same result. This role is also rewarding for him to be able to assist other companies grow their business by providing a streamline service, while also growing your own company’s success as well.

Kaitlyn was born and raised in Mobile, AL and graduated from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College with an Associate Degree in Arts, and further continued her education at the University of Southern Mississippi. She has over 10 years of experience in administrative work and joined our Poly team in 2020 where she has become a key asset to our continued growth and success. Kaitlyn works closely with all our Alabama and Mississippi clients as a Permit Coordinator. She ensures all jobs are ordered, completed, and distributed in a timely and efficient manner. She strives to make sure all our clients’ needs are met throughout the homebuilding process from start to finish. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, but is really enjoying life as a new mom to her baby boy.

Dustin was born in Central Florida but was raised here in Mobile, AL.  He graduated from Alma Bryant High School and attanded Coastal Alabama Community College where he received his degree in Computer Aided Drafting & Design in 2018.  He joined the Polysurveying team in 2018 as a draftsman, and today he manages our rapidly growning drafting team.  He takes pride in providing quality work in a timely manner and passes down the same expectations to others.  His favorite part of being on the Poly team is watching the team grow while the company still maintains a faimly work enviroment.  Dustin has also helped with building an apprenticeship program with Coastal Alabama Community College for survey drafting.  Dustin looks forward to helping Polysurveying continue to expand and maintain the team/family work environment.