Otto C. Holmquist, P.E.

Geolines, LLC

Background and Education

Otto Holmquist is a graduate of the New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, New Mexico, where he received a B.S. Geological Engineering in December, 1982. He is a registered professional engineer (Civil) in Nevada, Texas and New Mexico. After brief periods with Schlumberger Well Services and the New Mexico State Highway Department, he provided environmental and geotechnical engineering services with an-international consulting engineering company for 16 years. Otto came to the Las Vegas Valley with a local geotechnical engineering and materials testing firm in late 2001 and started Geolines, LLC in January 2004.

Geolines provides consulting services to engineering firms and developers in the Las Vegas Valley, Arizona and New Mexico. These services have included monitoring ground vibrations associated with blasting and construction projects, developing shear wave velocity profiles for seismic design, assessments of excavatability, and tracing faults and fissures using refraction seismic tools with visual verification.