User:MatthewMokanyk/sandbox

Matthew Mokanyk was born in Flint, Michigan in 1970. Matthew attended Flint Hamady schools and graduated in 1988. He then matriculated into Ferris State University (Big Rapids campus) where he majored in Surveying Engineering. While at Ferris Matthew became a competitive table tennis player. He won multiple campus-wide table tennis events. Matthew was also a member of the Surveying Engineering intramural basketball team. Matthew says his greatest accomplishment was when he slam dunked the basketball against an opposing defender in the gym at the ice rink. Matthew graduated from Ferris with a BS in Surveying Engineering in 1993. His last year at Ferris Matthew met a woman from the Upper Peninsula named Tyling Simmons. They dated for two years and got married in 1995. They then had two daughters in quick succession (Dakota & Mattison). In 2013 Matthew was forced to divorce his wife Tyling after several incidents where she became violent attacking Matthew and destroying personal property. They were married for 18 years.

In 1997 Matthew and his family relocated to Traverse City, Michigan where he began working for Gosling Czubak Engineering. At Gosling Czubak Matthew was a project manager and the in-house Geodesy/GPS expert. In January of 2000 Matthew and his friend Peter Prokop founded their own surveying/engineering company called Landtech Landtech. At Landtech they specialize in surveying and engineering for wireless tower sites (cell towers). Landtech quickly climbed to the top and became the best surveying/engineering company in the Wireless industry. Word spread throughout the industry and Landtech became a household name in the Midwest/Great Lakes regions.

In 2008 Matthew earned his Certified Federal Surveyors license through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). This license is extremely rare having only a handful of CFeds recipients in Michigan. While running Landtech Matthew pursued his Professional Engineers license in THIRTY-SIX states. He still holds all 36 state licenses to date. Matthew also earned his Professional Surveyors license in SIX states. Today Landtech still reigns supreme as "the best and fastest A&E company in the world." Matthew's company Landtech holds many copyrights for various proprietary engineering documents and drawings.

In 2014 Matthew married his long-term friend Kelly Kerr (daughter of Clint Kerr a 30-year veteran of the Leelanau County Sheriff's department). Matthew enjoys weight training daily and he is active in amateur indoor/outdoor volleyball tournaments. He has a home in Michigan, a home in Costa Rica and a home in Nicaragua.