FORT MYERS, FL (April 2009) – Johnson Engineering has named James “Vee” Lofton Jr., as director of its construction engineering & inspection (CEI) team.
Vee joined Johnson Engineering in January 2008 as a transportation CEI project administrator and has more than 20 years of experience in roadway and bridge construction, project administration, and inspection in both traditional design-bid-build and design-build projects.
Vee’s extensive experience also includes interstate highways and major bridges, pile driving, earthwork, sub grade and base construction, asphalt paving, drainage items, and all types of utilities and related relocations. He specializes in document control for both quality assurance, quality control testing and is well versed with the FDOT requirements for verification testing and document control.
His previous experience as a consultant program manager with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) gives him a unique perspective of the bidding process, construction techniques utilized, as well as an understanding of the maintaining agency’s needs after construction has been completed.
Matt has been with Johnson Engineering since 2000 and has more than four decades of experience in the field of surveying. Matt became a partner of Johnson Engineering in 2005 and is the firm’s Director of Survey and Mapping. He has performed surveys for the public and private sector of Southwest Florida for many years. Matt has performed surveys for large landowners such as Babcock, Kitson Partners, United States Sugar Corporation, Hilliard Brothers of Florida, ALICO, McDaniel Ranch, Bob Paul, Inc. and Bonita Bay Group. Surveys included boundary surveys, topographic surveys, route/right-of-way surveys, construction layout and control surveys. He was born and raised in Hendry County and has a thorough working knowledge of Southwest Florida.
