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about us

AY-PREP Industries is a commercial enterprise and consulting firm serving a broad spectrum of public and private sector clients that provides comprehensive services in water resources, groundwater and surface water hydrology, and geophysical seismic and non-seismic surveys.
Company Motto's
Why pay someone for work when undergrads will do it for free?
Yup, just as I thought. That's definitely a rock.
Jason? Don't you mean Jasawn?!
Company Motto's
Why pay someone for work when undergrads will do it for free?
Yup, just as I thought. That's definitely a rock.
Jason? Don't you mean Jasawn?!
board of directors

Dr. Tina Carrick (Chair)
Tina is the founding member (or one of the founding member's) of AY-PREP Industries. She currently acts as Chair of the company and dabbles in the occasional Russian roulette tournament, where she remains undefeated. Well, except for that one time but luckily she 'sneezed' right before pulling the trigger and in the process took out her opponent.Tina currently resides at Valle Verde Estates from which she keeps a close eye on AY-PREP Industries and exercises her power and vision for the company through her Co-chair and minions.
Hobbies include skydiving, competitive duck herding, and collecting Pokemon cards.
Quote: "What's the matter Vladimir? Feeling unlucky?"
Tina is the founding member (or one of the founding member's) of AY-PREP Industries. She currently acts as Chair of the company and dabbles in the occasional Russian roulette tournament, where she remains undefeated. Well, except for that one time but luckily she 'sneezed' right before pulling the trigger and in the process took out her opponent.Tina currently resides at Valle Verde Estates from which she keeps a close eye on AY-PREP Industries and exercises her power and vision for the company through her Co-chair and minions.
Hobbies include skydiving, competitive duck herding, and collecting Pokemon cards.
Quote: "What's the matter Vladimir? Feeling unlucky?"

Dr. Aaron A. Velasco (Co-chair)
Aaron is one of the founding members of AY-PREP Industries. He currently acts as Co-chair of the company and is permanently stationed at our headquarters in the luxurious second floor office of the Geology building at UTEP (a.k.a. as JUTEP or that other New Mexico school). Aaron's middle name has always been a mystery to AY-PREP Industries but through extensive and expensive research we have found out that the 'A' stands for Atlantis, the famed Mexican luchador known as el idolo de los niños.
Hobbies include extreme ironing, news-bombing, and collecting PhD student tears to water his plants.
Quote: "Chancho! I need to borrow some sweats." -(Nacho Libre voice)
Aaron is one of the founding members of AY-PREP Industries. He currently acts as Co-chair of the company and is permanently stationed at our headquarters in the luxurious second floor office of the Geology building at UTEP (a.k.a. as JUTEP or that other New Mexico school). Aaron's middle name has always been a mystery to AY-PREP Industries but through extensive and expensive research we have found out that the 'A' stands for Atlantis, the famed Mexican luchador known as el idolo de los niños.
Hobbies include extreme ironing, news-bombing, and collecting PhD student tears to water his plants.
Quote: "Chancho! I need to borrow some sweats." -(Nacho Libre voice)

Dr. Azucena Zamora (Director)
Azucena (a.k.a. Minion #1) is currently in charge of making sure the Chair's and Co-chair's vision for AY-PREP Industries are being accomplished by its employees. Duties include maintaining below 0 temperatures in our weekly meeting rooms and fighting crime in Gotham City and Metropolis. Apparently, Batman and Superman could not handle it anymore.
Hobbies include milking snakes, ferret racing, and collecting Samurai swords.
Quote: "You're a 10? On the pH scale maybe cause you're basic."
Azucena (a.k.a. Minion #1) is currently in charge of making sure the Chair's and Co-chair's vision for AY-PREP Industries are being accomplished by its employees. Duties include maintaining below 0 temperatures in our weekly meeting rooms and fighting crime in Gotham City and Metropolis. Apparently, Batman and Superman could not handle it anymore.
Hobbies include milking snakes, ferret racing, and collecting Samurai swords.
Quote: "You're a 10? On the pH scale maybe cause you're basic."

Mr. Victor H. Garcia (Manager; Chief Creative Officer )
Victor (a.k.a. Minion #2) is currently in charge of making the AY-PREP Industries website. Duties include chauffeur for employee outings, replacement Jasawn, girl scout troop leader, and telling the truth about graduate school. Victor enjoys going on hikes and knocking down balanced rocks people stack along his way.
Hobbies include drinking, bug fighting, and collecting Super Soakers.
Quote: "Rocks belong on the ground you hippies! Not stacked up. Uuuu look at me, I stack rocks because I'm an artsy fartsy (_*_)!"
Victor (a.k.a. Minion #2) is currently in charge of making the AY-PREP Industries website. Duties include chauffeur for employee outings, replacement Jasawn, girl scout troop leader, and telling the truth about graduate school. Victor enjoys going on hikes and knocking down balanced rocks people stack along his way.
Hobbies include drinking, bug fighting, and collecting Super Soakers.
Quote: "Rocks belong on the ground you hippies! Not stacked up. Uuuu look at me, I stack rocks because I'm an artsy fartsy (_*_)!"
employment opportunities
We are seeking highly motivated entry-level Geoscientists to join our dynamic Exploration and Production (E&P) technical team in fulfilling our vision of being a premier provider of professional services in geology, geophysics, hydrology, and the environment.
In addition to your fulfilling role in a growing Region of a growing company, you also gain the advantages of:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance / Voluntary Life Insurance
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- 401K with a company match
- Paid vacation and sick days
- Paid holidays
- Tuition Assistance
- Mentoring, resources, and encouragement for your career growth.
- Cross-training and diverse projects.
- Working with some of the best and brightest in the industry among a culture that values diversity.
- Work is in both indoor and outdoor settings in environments ranging from climate controlled office space to foul weather, heat, and rain.
- May sit or stand for several hours at a time and climb inclines (terrains, ladders, etc.)
- Required to lift objects up to 50 lbs.
- Consistent travel throughout market to transport documentation or items to/from a client, field, government, or third-party locations in support of active or potential projects
- Prepares a wide variety of recurring and nonrecurring correspondence, reports, and other documents from information obtained from the staff, files, and other sources.
- Reviews and processes incoming and outgoing correspondence, materials, publications, regulations, and directives
- Professionally and courteously receives telephone calls, greets visitors, and ascertains the nature of the calls or visits
- Independently notes and follows-up on professional commitments made at meetings, or as affected by other staff members, coordinates meeting arrangements, and schedules meetings, conferences, etc.
- Performs other clerical and administrative work in support of the organization and office
- Required: Driving record that allows insurability w/ no unreasonable cost
- Required: Drug free workplace compliance
- Required: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission workplace compliance
- Required: Authorized to work in the United States
- Required: Willing and able to undergo/pass a background check, in accordance with local law/regulations