Our Team
Kevin Laiss - CST, President - Partner - Vancouver
Kevin has over 35 years of survey experience performing roles in drafting, surveying, construction project management, estimating and office management. His survey background includes topographic surveys, road/highway construction & monitoring surveys, land development, oil, gas, pulp and paper plant site layouts, residential homes and towers layout, airport improvements, dam monitoring and construction, and underground line locating. Kevin is also proficient in various construction contract methods, client relations, project costing/scheduling, and project/resource management.
David Bleay - Vice President - Partner - Courtenay
David is responsible for 3D Geomatics' corporate operations, covering finances, insurance, accounting, and payroll, among others. Additionally, he oversees the COR Safety Program and HR-related duties like recruitment and retention strategies.
David has been involved in the surveying and mapping fields for more than 25 years. David has expertise as a surveyor performing site control surveys, MOTI bridge site and road surveys, legal (cadastral) surveys, earthworks (volume) surveys, utilities layout, engineering and construction and oil & gas surveys. David also has expertise in various types of survey equipment, 3D machine control equipment, data preparation and software requirements. He has also worked as a civil engineering site inspector for a variety of land development projects.
Barry Fisk - Founder - Nanaimo
With over 45 years working as a surveyor, Barry has gained a wealth of experience as a project manager, technical solutions provider, surveyor and draftsman. A former British Columbia Ministry of Transportation employee for 25 years, Barry is well versed in the BC MOTI, MMCD and CoN standards and software requirements for Design and Surveying projects and has extensive experience with Civil 3D, CAiCE, AutoCAD and GPS. Having worked on extremely broad range of projects – with an equally broad range of stakeholders, objectives and project requirements, Barry has the experience to face the challenges that a survey project of any size may present.
Barry Bleay, CST – Chairman of the Board
After dedicating more than 48 years to the geomatics industry, Barry has stepped back from an active role at 3D. He remains a Shareholder and Chairman of 3D's Board of Directors. Barry continues to provide Business Development and Advisory support. Barry's decades of experience in the surveying and mapping industry includes more than 25 years of Business Development experience, extensive field operations and Project Management experience conducting Transportation Surveys, Legal (Cadastral) Surveys, High Precision Control Surveys, Civil Construction and Engineering Surveys, Open Pit Mining Surveys, Hydrographic Surveys and Oil & Gas Surveys.
Aaron Shufletoski - Manager of Legal Surveys - President of 3D Land Surveying Inc. - Partner
Aaron Shufletoski joins 3D Geomatics with 30 years of experience in the land surveying profession. From being involved in every aspect of land surveying and luckily having been mentored by a diverse and great group of land surveyors, Aaron has a wide range of skills and knowledge that he brings to 3D. A community leader in coaching, theatre, and active with the regulator of land surveying in BC, he approaches each project as more than just a job and values the long lasting relationships made in the course of the work. Aaron has completed projects across the province and beyond in house building, subdivision applications and registration, strata surveys, mining, road construction, industrial and infrastructure and general boundary determination.
Adam Merryfield - B.Tech, Business Development and Project Manager Advisor - Associate - Colwood
Adam has over 20 years of experience working as a construction surveyor, lead surveyor and project manager for surveying, engineering and construction companies. Adam’s experience includes establishing, densifying, and maintaining first order control networks, quality assurance surveys, surface generation, stakeout, volume calculations, as-built surveys and managing machine control data. Adam has experience operating a variety of GNSS, robotic total stations and precision levels. He also understands and integrates the methodologies, techniques and scheduling required to manage a successful project and team.
Andrew Torgerson - AScT, Estimate Coordinator, Project Coordinator - 3D Laser Scanning Specialist - UAV/RPAS Advanced Pilot - Associate - Nanaimo
Andrew’s role includes estimating and proposal creation, 3D Scanning and LiDAR capture and processing, and troubleshooting software and hardware issues. Andrew has over 18 years experience in the Surveying and Mapping industry with 6 years’ experience with Airborne LiDAR and 12 years’ experience in ground based 3D laser scanning. Prior to joining 3D Geomatics, Andrew owned and operated his own 3D laser scanning company, Surface & Edge 3D Inc., which merged into 3D Geomatics in 2020. Andrew has a love of the ocean, and enjoys spending time sailing and fishing with his family.
Samantha Fournier - CAD Manager, CTech - Associate - Nanaimo
Samantha has over two decades experience as a Computer Aided Design Technician with a demonstrated history of working in the civil engineering industry and is skilled in processing survey data and creating base plan CAD drawings complete with all legal (cadastral) input and as constructed information. She also has experience with storm, sanitary sewers and waterworks, design drafting with completion of plan, profiles and cross sections of roads and services, and preparation of engineering and design drawings for Land Development projects in varying sizes and complexities.
As the CAD manager Samantha’s focus is on production efficiency for the team. She ensures workflow runs smoothly, builds standard CAD processes and reviews outputs for quality control. In her spare time, she enjoys going to the gym, exploring the outdoors, hiking or spending time at the beach.
Mostafa Abbasi, BSc., LST, EIT – Project Manager, UAV/RPAS Pilot – Nanaimo
Mostafa has over 5 years’ experience in the Geomatics industry across Alberta and British Columbia, working with airborne LiDAR, photogrammetry, 3D laser scanners and traditional survey equipment. Mostafa has performed topographic surveys, volume surveys, site layout and more in the construction and transportation industries including work on MoTI projects. He is a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual, with a strong passion for efficiency.
Chris Seeley - CAD Technician - UAV Specialist - Colwood
Chris has over 10 years of experience in the Surveying and Mapping industry including field surveying, CAD, GIS and UAV/drone mapping. His capabilities include drafting legal survey drawings, topographic site plans, volume calculations, image processing and more.
Xavier Smith – Survey Technician, UAV/RPAS Pilot - Nanaimo
Xavier has over 8 years of field survey experience, working on a wide variety of projects in transportation, construction, municipal, legal, and oil and gas. He has performed topographic surveys, volumetric surveys, building and utility layout surveys, and a variety of different legal and construction surveys. Xavier also has experience operating 3D laser scanners and remotely piloted aircraft.
Somayeh Yavari – PhD (Geomatics Engineering), Jr Project Manager, Geomatics Specialist - Vancouver
Somayeh has a PhD in Geomatics Engineering and a MSc in Geomatics Engineering – Photogrammetry/Remote Sensing. She has around five years of experience on photogrammetric UAV and Airborne LiDAR mapping and quality control across Canada. She also has more than 10 years of experience as a senior researcher on Optical/RADAR Space and Airborne Image Processing, Algorithm Development, and Research Studies for extensive variety of projects during her PhD and Postdoctoral fellows. She also has more than 5 years of experience working as a university lecturer teaching courses such as space/analytical photogrammetry and remote sensing. At 3D Geomatics, she mainly works on project standardization (Standards of Operational Procedures - SOP), workflow procedures, and QC/QA, as well as doing different LiDAR, Terrestrial Laser Scanning, and Surveying projects. Switching to industrial projects, she is extremely eager to leverage her credentials and capabilities in the geomatics industry.
Phil Mackenzie - AScT, Senior Survey Technician - Port Alberni
Phil has extensive experience as a construction surveyor, inspector and contract administrator working for survey, engineering and construction companies. Phil has experience working with various types of survey standards and specializes in MMCD and BC MoTI survey practices.
Aaron Brown, Dipl.T, - Survey Technologist - Courtenay
Aaron is a graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology Geomatics Engineering Technology diploma and has over 8 years of survey experience. He has extensive experience conducting a wide variety of both legal and design topographic surveys of highways, roadways and bridges using string survey methodology in Urban and Rural settings, including subdivisions and right of way postings. He is also very experienced with establishment and maintained horizontal and vertical control networks, data processing and plan preparation. Aaron has directed and supervised work of survey personnel and performed QA/QC surveys.
Chris Brown, BSc., Dipl.T - Survey Technician - Victoria
Chris has over 20 years experience in the Geomatics industry, and has worked on projects throughout British Columbia. He has extensive field experience with Legal, engineering and construction surveys, as well as with field data processing and drafting, including BC MoTI standard survey deliverable packages. Chris also spent a year in Aceh, Indonesia working with the Canadian Red Cross on surveys to aid in the reconstruction efforts following the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami.
Marc Gervais - Office Administrator
Marc has been an office administration professional for over 15 years. With a focus on the tech sector Marc has worked for IT specialists, security system consultants , and now 3D Geomatics. When Marc isn't at work he enjoys spending time with his wife and two cats, or on his road bike exploring the roads and scenery of the beautiful mid-island.