Jeff Potts P.E.
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Jeff Potts PE is SKYBERCAM’s owner, Pilot, and Engineer. Jeff is a licensed Civil Engineer and uses aerial photography as a tool in the design of public transportation and commercial facilities. Jeff is one of the few engineers in Alaska to have designed projects for DOT based on aerial photographs and record drawings alone (no land surveying), integrating the data in AutoCAD. Jeff has built and flown unmanned aircraft since the late ‘80’s and joined the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) in 1990. Born and raised in Alaska, Jeff studied robotics at High Tech Institute in Phoenix AZ, earning an Associates degree in Electronics in 1991. He later studied Civil Engineering and earned a B.S. from Portland State University in 1997. After a four year internship designing highways with R&M Consultants, Jeff became a registered Civil Engineer with the State of Alaska in 2001. Jeff then served as an engineering Project Manager on urban rehabilitaion projects and school site-designs with USKH Inc. He is now a Land Developement Project Manager in Bend, Oregon. Jeff has always had a passion for unmanned vehicles, especially those useful in civil tasks. |
