Shannon Rodgers
Design Engineer
In 1989, Mr. Rodgers joined the Natural Resources Conservation Service, of the USDA as an Engineering Student Trainee. And after earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1993, he accepted a permanent duty assignment with that agency. Mr. Rodgers worked on PL-566 Flood Control dam construction projects and oversaw the design and construction of various land planning and conservation projects. In 1995 and 1996 he served on a multidisciplinary natural disaster team responding to flood damage in Madison, Rappahannock, and Orange Counties in VA, for the federal Emergency Watershed Protection Program. His duties involved damage assessment as the team's hydrologist, design of emergency actions with construction specifications and contract requirements, and coordination with other federal, state, and local authorities. Once contracts were awarded, he supervised a team of inspectors and served as Contracting Officer's Technical Representative. It is believed that this was the largest natural disaster recovery effort in Virginia history, involving traveling for approximately nine months and working in communities devastated by the flood and related damage to homes and infrastructure. For their efforts, this team was awarded an Honor Award, the department's highest civilian award. Once returning to his regular duty station, he served as hydrologist on a multidisciplinary wetland team charged with assessing wetlands and performing delineations for the Food Security Act and accepted by the US Army Corp of Engineers for Clean Water Act compliance. More routine duties included design of wooden structures, wetland restoration and enhancement projects, and design of erosion and stormwater control practices. Mr. Rodgers was responsible for engineering training, design approval, and quality control of engineering practices for the field offices in twenty counties between the border with North Carolina to north of Richmond. In 1999, Mr. Rodgers earned licensure from the Commonwealth of Virginia and left public service in 2000 for private practice, consulting for S. Rodgers & Associates, Inc., founded for that purpose. In 2001, this consulting firm joined Southern Land Services, PLC as the engineering member. Mr. Rodgers supervised the design of land use projects ranging from a historic court house square enhancement and renovation, to a planned retirement community. Mr. Rodgers designed building structural elements, performed geologic investigations, planned developments, and designed development related roads and other infrastructure. Mr. Rodgers served as Webmaster for the Lynchburg Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers, on the board of directors and as Chief Financial Officer for an internet service and wireless communications company, served on the local Rural Broadband Planning Initiative Management Team, and as the Finance Committee Chairman of the local Chamber of Commerce. In 2007, while exploring the possibilities of returning to Wythe County, Mr. Rodgers met Mark Boenke, President of Pillar Engineering & Surveying, P. C., and is now a valued member of the Pillar team.
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- B.S. Civil Engineering, Charles Edward Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech College of Engineering-1993
- Various USDA management
and personnel supervision
courses
- Soils Engineering and
Conservation training
- Computer Aided Design
training with annual recurrent training.
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- National Federation of
Independent Businesses
- Air & Space -Smithsonian
Institute
- Experimental Aircraft
Association
- Airplane Owners and Pilot's Association
- American Motorcyclist
Association
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