Candidate for
Council Member; City of Fullerton; 4 Year Full Term

Greg Sebourn was born at Fullerton's St. Jude Hospital in 1973. Greg attended Raymond Elementary School for kindergarten and Saint Juliana Falconieri until the 7th grade when he transferred to Ladera Vista Junior High School. Greg went on to graduate from Fullerton High School in 1991.

Greg Sebourn married his wife Stacey in 1997. In November of the same year he graduated from the Fullerton College Police Academy. While interviewing and testing with various law enforcement agencies, Greg fell into a new career path that proved to be very rewarding: land surveying. Greg quickly immersed himself in the rich history of land surveying, following in the footsteps of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Henry David Thoreau + all land surveyors.

In 2007, Greg successfully passed the California State-Specific Professional Land Surveyor Exam, recognized by many to be the most difficult professional land surveying exam in the United States to pass. Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors use PE and/or PLS after their name to designate their authority to practice in their respective disciplines.

He was named Co-Facilitator of the Survey/Mapping Sciences Program at Santiago Canyon College where he teaches land surveying and mapping courses. Greg Sebourn is the 2009 recipient of the Adjunct Faculty Award of Excellence, the highest honor bestowed upon faculty at the college. In February 2010, Greg was named Facilitator of the program, which has a typical enrollment of more than 200 students, making it among the largest in the nation. Greg Sebourn was appointed to the City of Fullerton's Citizens' Infrastructure Review Committee for a four-year term by Mayor Bankhead, City Council Members Jones, Quirk-Silva, and Nelson in 2009 (Mayor Pro Tem Keller absent).

Greg Sebourn has been the Senior Survey Project Manager at Johnson-Frank and Associates, Inc. since 2006. He has worked on projects that include the subdivision of Anaheim Stadium to make room for an NFL expansion team, U.S. border properties and rights-of-way acquisition, several National Forest survey projects, and numerous smaller municipal projects.

Greg Sebourn was a technical consultant to the California Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors for the development of the 2008 State-Specific Professional Land Surveyor Exam.

Greg Sebourn is a member of the California Land Surveyor's Association (CLSA).

He is the Co-Chair of the CLSA Trig Star Committee. The Trig Star Program contest is an annual high school mathematics competition sponsored by the National Society of Professional Surveyors based on the practical application of trigonometry. The program recognizes the best students from high schools throughout the nation. Greg is also the committee chair for the Orange County Chapter of the CLSA Trig Star Program. The Orange County Trig Star event at Santiago Canyon College is the largest in California, bringing hundreds of high school students together for the trigonometric competition. The 2006 National Trig Star Champion was from Fullerton's own Sunny Hills High School.

Greg Sebourn is a former Assistant Scout Master for his son's Boy Scout troop. Greg is currently the Survey Merit Badge Counselor for the Orange County Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Greg is also the CLSA-OC Surveying Merit Badge Committee Chair.

In 2009, Greg Sebourn was appointed by the California Department of Education's State-wide Career Pathways as facilitator of the Survey/Mapping Workgroup to develop a basic land surveying course articulation agreement template between California high schools and community colleges. The project was completed in September 2009.

In addition to Greg Sebourn's professional consulting, he has worked pro bono on several projects including the Orange County Coastkeeper's Demonstration Garden in Orange. The project is expected to be completed later this year.

Greg holds Associate of Science Degrees in Administration of Justice from Fullerton College and Survey/Mapping Sciences from Santiago Canyon College.

Greg is a volunteer participant in the California Land Surveyors Association's Professional Development Program.

Greg Sebourn has written for Professional Surveyor(http://www.profsurv.com/magazine/article.aspx?i=70098) and the California Surveyor (http://www.californiasurveyors.org/calsurv.html). He is a contributing writer to several blogs.

Greg is a member of the CLSA Education Committee as well as the Public Awareness Committee.

He also serves on the North Orange County Regional Occupational Program's Engineering & Manufacturing Technical Advisory Committee.