Tom Haws
Founder at Private practice
Gilbert, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Haws is a founder and civil engineer with over 8 years of focused leadership in subdivision engineering, floodplain studies, wastewater and urban road design, running a family of small, employee-centric engineering firms from Gilbert, Arizona. He combines deep hands-on experience in AutoCAD Civil 3D customization and AutoLISP/VBA tooling with practical field work—surveying, grading, and municipal infrastructure design—for projects ranging from mining and tailings water balance to FEMA CLOMR/LOMR flood modeling. Tom’s background blends technical programming (PHP/MySQL, LAMP, MVC frameworks) and CAD automation with traditional civil engineering roles, enabling smoother design-to-delivery workflows and bespoke productivity tools. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he’s delivered complex hydrologic and drainage solutions using HEC-RAS/HEC-1 and 2D modeling while prioritizing team experience and sustainable practices. An atypical engineer who also led choirs and volunteer Wikimedia governance, he brings communication and consensus-building strengths to technically demanding projects.
7 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Civil Engineering, BS, Civil Engineering at Brigham Young University
Spanish, Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
1,342reputation
98kreached
40answers
6questions
Github Skills (27)
spatial7
html6
naming-conventions6
naming6
gis6
php6
css-selectors6
css6
openstreetmap6
zend-framework6
apache6
wps6
mysql6
autocad6
system-information5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hawstom/cnm
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:23 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
hawstom/stardew-valley
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 22 branches in 13 days
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