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Kevin is currently the certified superintendent at La Rinconada Country Club. Kevin was the Director of Maintenance at Lahontan Golf Club for over 14 years. Some of the responsibilities over the expanse of his career include the daily upkeep of multiple golf courses, natural resources, environmental compliance, and roads and streets. The wide ranging expertise has come from a combination of education and experiences. Degrees in Meteorology (1987 University of Nebraska/Lincoln), and Horticulture (1992 Colorado State), complete the formal side of this important combination of qualifications. A lifetime of experience around golf courses, and the game of golf was provided by Kevin's father.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Technology at Work

This winter there was a lot of technological updating to our management processes.   The goal for me is to move Lahontan Maintenance to a GIS management system.  It is easier to organize, and manage the Lahontan property with mapping, and inventory data, and then to integrate these systems together so they are accessible and usable from any location at any time.  To date the irrigation system, every square foot of the property, water quality testing, fertilizer and chemical applications, and geo-referenced photos have been processed, and are working from anywhere at any time.  A smart phone allows me to be out on the golf course, accessing information that in the past resided either on my computer, or in a file somewhere.  We have gone so far as to be able to run the irrigation software from a smart phone, which is something that we figured out on our own, and is not something that the irrigation company has available.

                                         Jake and Marc running irrigation from Jakes phone


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