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 Anna Rios, RPLS is the Owner of Aerios Geo LLC, the Founder of the Women Surveyors Summit, Member of both the National and Texas Society of Professional Surveyors, Former Texas Young Surveyor State Representative and recently served as an Adjunct Professor for Austin Community College. She remains active on many committees to promote the Land Surveying and Geospatial profession. Anna has been in the surveying profession since 2001 and her background includes experience in a wide variety of surveying services encompassing commercial, residential, and municipal projects. She is licensed in Texas and received the Texas Young Surveyor of the Year award in 2019. Anna earned her Associate Degree of Land Surveying/Geomatics from Austin Community College and her Bachelor Degree of Science in Business Administration from LeTourneau University.

Heather Sides, RPLS is the Vice President at LJA Surveying, Inc. with offices in ten locations around Texas. She is a member of the National (NSPS) and Texas (TSPS) Society of Professional Surveyors, the North Dakota State Professional Land Surveyors, and the Woman Pipeliners Association. Heather is a Past President of TSPS at the State level, a Past President of the Gulf Coast Chapter, and serves on numerous committees. She has been working in the Houston surveying field since 2002. Heather has experience working for land development engineering firms, pipeline surveying firms, and upstream surveying firms.  Heather holds survey licenses in Texas, North Dakota, and is a Certified Federal Surveyor. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering from Kansas State University in 1996.

 Virginia Winberg, PLS is a Survey Project Manager and the Survey Leader for the Minneapolis power division survey team at Westwood Professional Services. She has also served as a Board Director for the Minnesota Society of Professional Surveyors (MSPS), participating in both MSPS’s YP group and local chapters. Virginia has 16 years of experience in the land surveying profession. Her professional background includes preparing surveys for utility scale solar and wind farms, power delivery, and substations in both PLSS and metes/bounds states. 

Virginia holds survey licenses in Minnesota, Virginia, and Kentucky. She earned her Certificate of Land Surveying from St. Cloud University in 2008 and her Bachelor of Science in Geography from Bemidji State University in 2001.

Jose A. Pedraza, RPLS has 13 years of experience and has worked across the world on a variety of projects. He began surveying through the Texas Army National Guard, with missions taking him across the State of Texas, to the Chilean Patagonia, and to the various countries in the Middle East. He has worked in various roles throughout the Greater Houston Area and is currently the Survey Director at Stuart Consulting Group, Inc. Jose is also an Adjunct Instructor teaching various Land Surveying courses at Lone Star College – Montgomery.   

Jose has been and continues to be a volunteer educator for those taking the Fundamentals of Surveying Exam through the Houston RPLS/SIT Study Groups. He is also still enlisted in the National Guard, through which he has participated in various community relief efforts, civil disturbance operations, and disaster recovery missions throughout the State.

Jose has a Master of Business Administration, from The University of Texas at Tyler, 2020, a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, from The University of Texas at Tyler, 2019 and an Associate of Applied Science, Land Surveying and Mapping Technology, Lone Star College – Montgomery, 2015.