A&S is a woman owned, HUB eligible small business based in Seadrift, Texas. A&S provides services and solutions to customer needs anywhere they are required in the United States. We provide these services through the use of two very specialized teams focusing on exceptional outcomes for our customers by capitalizing on the founder’s backgrounds.
A&S mapping provides expertise in Cartography/GIS whose primary projects are focused on assisting water and wastewater utilities, developers, landowners and cities with GIS maps and digital data for water & sewer Certificates of Convenience and Necessity (CCN) applications and petitions to be filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT.)
A&S contract support focuses on providing high level operations, technical review, proposal support and metrics implementation and management support services to customers whose primary customers are State, Federal, Defense and Commercial entities. We also provide collective bargaining representation services for our customers.
President of A&S Business Group, Inc.
GIS Mapping
August 2015 – Present
Cartographer / GIS Specialist who specializes in assisting water and wastewater utilities, developers, landowners and cities with GIS maps and digital data for water & sewer Certificates of Convenience and Necessity (CCN) applications and petitions to be filed with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT.)
Skills:
ESRI ArcGIS 10.8 - import AutoCAD DWGs (in a coordinate system), metes & bounds surveys, GPS coordinates, editing and cartography.
Background
Texas State University – San Marcos (formerly Southwest Texas State University)
B.S in Geography with a Concentration in Cartography, Minor in Math
1980 – 1985
GTU – Geography Honor Society
Public Utility Commission and predecessor agencies (Texas Water Commission, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality)
1986 - 2015
Retired from the State of Texas after 29 years working within the water utilities program. Formerly known as Mary Suzanne Jaster, I served as the Water Utilities Division’s Mapping Lead where I reviewed the mapping information filed with CCN Applications and Petitions, managed and maintained the statewide GIS dataset of CCNs for water and sewer utility service areas, prepared final maps for CCN, CCN Transfers applications and Expedited Release and 13.248 petitions, and also prepared CCN exhibit maps for legislative requests.
Vice President of A&S Business Group, Inc.
Contract Services
August 2015 – Present
Ace has worked in the service industry his entire career. He started in the business working on a Federal GSA contract in Dallas Texas, in 1985 and has continued in Defense, Government and later Commercial markets until today. Through his long career he has held positions as planner estimator, quality manager, Project Manager, Operations Manager, Director of Operations, Director of Business Development, Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer.
Ace built his career on being the “go to” or “fix it person”. His ability to “make things work” and “figure things out” took him from working at the site level doing planning estimating, quality and project management work to becoming a CEO 14 years later.
Ace was voted into a management representative position representing businesses interests on a Union benefits fund in 2001. He was later voted into addition roles on different funds by his business peers to represent their interests. He has been actively involved on representing business interests on an annual benefit fund, health and welfare fund and pension fund for many years. His exposure to the inner workings of the Union and CBA’s has uniquely positioned him to support clients in need of representation. It is possible to have a good agreement that protects you and good working relationship both with Unions if you structure your agreement and relationship to support those outcomes.
Skills include, Government and commercial services, business development, marketing and sales. Extensive multi line business skills. Acquisition and integration. Change Management. Lean Operations assessment & implementation. Operational & strategic planning. Relationship building. Ace also has Strong P&L, finance and risk management skills. Small business Development. Teaming, Joint Venture, LLP-LLC. Project Management. Process Improvement and metrics development and implementation.
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