Doug Reeves

Doug grew up in Odessa.  He went to school here: Elementary thru High School where he graduated from Permian in 1977.

 

After some time in the cement plant near Penwell, then in the oil field as a wire-line operator and tubing tester, he joined the US Navy as a sonar technician.  He also worked with multiple fabricators and contractors.  He was the bridge crew foreman for a company in Florida where he installed conduit lines under bridge decks on the east coast for the fiber-optic cable industry.  He has worked alongside -and learned from- some of the best architects, geotechnical, forensic, civil, and structural engineers that the DFW area, and other areas, have to offer.

 

He went to college in Arlington and graduated with honors (member by invitation with the honor societies Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon, and Golden Key) with a civil engineering degree.  During this time, he also ran a successful CADD detailing business -providing shop drawings for most, if not all, of his past employers. He is still considered a stair expert in the DFW area, although he was also heavily involved detailing and designing structural steel, AWWA groundwater storage tanks, and ASME code pressure vessels.  All of his detailing was done at night and on weekends since 1991 so as not to interfere with his engineering job during the day, where he would develop the engineering designs.  He has worked in structural engineering or consulting firms in the DFW area for about 25 years (and 20 years before that as a draftsman) and moved back home to Odessa in 2015.  He started Onsite Structural Engineering in  the summer of 2016.