Dennis M. Dodson, PLS

With over 45 years of combined experience, Dennis Dodson leads our Surveying Department, with the assistance of Byram Jennex. Together they have the breadth and depth of knowledge and capabilities to continue to serve both the public works and private development clients providing quality professional land surveying services that are paramount to land development, capital improvements, and construction projects.

Since January 2023, Dennis Dodson joined San Dieguito Engineering after selling his Santa Barbara land surveying firm that he founded in 2000. Dennis’ experience as a land surveyor started soon after graduating from college. Dennis began his surveying career in 1980 working for Odom Offshore Surveys Inc. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana locating pipelines, wellheads and conducting sea floor mapping. In 1987, he moved to Santa Barbara where he became involved with boundary, construction and topographic surveys as well as Parcel Maps and Record of Surveys working for MNS Engineers where Dennis became a professional Land Surveyor in California in 1996. In 1998, Dennis purchased the firm of Garner Land Surveying, Inc. and changed the name to Dodson Land Surveying Inc. in 2000. As founder and owner, he successfully ran the business and managed up to 5 people, responsible for 1-2 crews until 2021 when the business was sold. It continues to run successfully to this day under the name of WW Surveying. Inc.

As a licensed land surveyor with more than 40 years of professional land surveying experience, Dennis has led and performed boundary, topographic and construction field surveys, as well as supervised all survey operations of a small business including multiple survey crews and all office procedures.