Paul Larkin

Paul Larkin was involved with the construction of the original Staking U. field classroom in Pt. Huron, MI. Locating since 1994; he has 20 plus years of experience with all buried utilities, as well as, all electromagnetic locating instruments. He has held both training and management positions within the locating industry. Paul joined Staking U in 2005. Currently Paul handles the day-to-day operations for Staking U, and provides utility locating services throughout the country.

Bill Mixer

Bill is a retired college professor. He was the chair of the Environmental Science department at Casper College in Casper, Wyoming where he taught water and wastewater operations, distribution and collection system operations, ASSE Cross Connection Certification, OSHA trenching safety and OSHA hazwoper. He also provided onsite technical assistance for the USEPA in water and wastewater system operations. Bill began teaching locating in 2006 in a first of its kind public/private partnership with Staking University, One Call of Wyoming and Casper College. He has taught locating across the United States and in Australia. He and his wife of 35+ years reside in Casper, Wyoming where Bill also fly fishes and teaches fly fishing in his spare time.

Bud Jolly

Bud received his training in communications while serving in the U.S. Army. Upon entering civilian life, he had a career in telecommunications with GTE for 29 years. Since his retirement in 1999, Bud has worked at Staking U. as Senior Instructor and Director of Training

Donald Broome

Don has 30 years locating experience with Greenville Utilities in Greenville NC, and was Chief Utility Locator over the last 14 years. He has located for gas, electric, water, phone, and fiber utilities. After retiring from Greenville Utilities, Don came to work with Staking U. He currently lives with his wife in Atlantic Beach NC and enjoys beach combing whenever he has the opportunity!

Dr. Dennis Prezbindowski

Dennis is the principle GPR instructor for Staking University. Dennis earned a PhD in Geology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981 and has extensive experience with shallow and deep geophysical technologies. He is a certified professional geologist and a certified EM utility locator. He has extensive field experience in the use of GPR and other geophysical instrumentation for utility locating and subsurface site characterization. Dennis has presented numerous professional GPR seminars over the last 15 years and has published over 100 peer reviewed professional presentation and technical articles during his professional career.

Read Dr. Prezbindowski’s latest article in American Locator May 2019,
“Depths to Utility Targets as Determined by GPR Imaging: 
A Field Study of Factors that Affect Depth Calculations.”

Thomas Larkin

Thomas is the assistant GPR instructor and a Purdue University student finishing up a degree in Computer Engineering. Working with Staking University and Utility Locating, LLC since 2018 in both electromagnetics and ground penetrating radar for utility locating, training, and mapping purposes.

Thomas has worked on utility locating and mapping projects at multiple Illinois Veterans’ Homes and residential areas in the Chicagoland area. Currently working with Dr. Dennis Prezbindowski at S.U. as assistant GPR instructor. Other experience includes building and piloting drones, building and maintaining computers, coding in Python, Java, C++, ARM Assembly, and MySQL, as well as photography and videography.