Brent Farr started Farr West Engineering out of his home office in Reno, Nevada in 2001.  For over 20 years, Brent has maintained a passion for helping communities with their engineering and planning needs while staying true to the company’s core values of character, stewardship, and excellence.  Those values are seen today through every employee at Farr West.  Brent has built a reputation among his clients and the engineering community as a skilled leader, facilitator and public speaker. The focus of his career has been providing services to public works departments and state and local government entities, primarily working with public water and wastewater utilities. He has developed long-standing relationships with many satisfied clients and is dedicated to maintaining Farr West's reputation for superior client service and exceptional results. 

Brent earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Brigham Young University and his master's degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a licensed professional civil engineer and water right surveyor in Nevada, as well as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Public Works Association, and the American Water Works Association.

Away from the office, Brent enjoys spending time with his wife and their three children.  He can regularly be found amid a competitive game of tennis or in the backcountry fishing. Brent was raised in Alaska and he travels there often to visit his parents and enjoy Alaska's outdoor adventures.  He is also a prominent leader in his church and community.

Greg Lyman is a principal engineer and the engineering manager at Farr West.  He provides consulting services to public and private clients in the general fields of water and wastewater engineering, land development, transportation engineering, and construction management.  Greg leads Farr West’s electrical engineering and survey departments while also leading a large civil design team.  Greg is also the liaison between Farr West and Sierra Controls, LLC, a subsidiary company that specializes in instrumentation and controls. 

There are still many clients and projects that Greg manages personally.  He enjoys taking projects from the planning phase through successful construction and has a passion for working on complex projects with a great team. 

Greg's extensive water and wastewater experience is a result of managing multiple large and complex projects involving potable water and sewer treatment, conveyance, and compliance for 20 years. Greg's experience also includes transportation engineering services such as street design, pavement management, geotechnical investigations, surveying, airport engineering, and traffic engineering. As a result of managing his design projects through construction, Greg is proficient with technical specification and bid document preparation, public bidding, site inspection and reporting, material testing, scheduling, and payment.

Greg earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno and is a licensed Professional Civil Engineer in Nevada.  Much of his free time is spent with his wife and four busy children. He also enjoys volunteering with his church and working with the horses and cows on his family's ranch in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.  

Lucas Tipton is a principal engineer and the utility planning department manager at Farr West. Lucas has nearly 20 years of diverse civil design and construction management experience, with an emphasis in planning for water and sewer utilities. He oversees the water resources, water rights, and GIS departments.  Lucas brings these departments together with engineering and design to provide California and Nevada utilities with sophisticated facility and utility planning.

Lucas also oversees our modeling engineers and was instrumental in the development of this niche at Farr West.  Lucas’ group uses state-of-the-art modeling software such as AutoCAD Civil 3D, HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS, Bentley WaterGEMS and SewerGEMS, and Innovyze InfoWater and InfoSwmm.

Lucas earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a licensed professional civil engineer in Nevada and California. As an avid fly fisherman, skier, and outdoorsman, Lucas enjoys exploring the beauty of Northern Nevada and surrounding areas with his wife, their three children, and their goldendoodle.

Matt Van Dyne is a principal engineer at Farr West.  Matt oversees a large group of engineers and construction inspectors who provide civil engineering design and construction management for water, wastewater, in-situ rehabilitation, transportation, condition and risk assessments, and construction management.  Matt is a licensed civil engineer in both Nevada and California with 15 years of specialty experience performing work in the Lake Tahoe Basin.  

Matt’s tenure in overseeing large public and private projects has allowed him to develop successful methods for completing critical infrastructure projects.  He led the single largest USDA-RD pipeline project in Nevada to replace over 90,000 lineal feet of water and over 60,000 linear feet of sewer, along with significant improvements to critical facilities and SCADA upgrades, for the City of Yerington.  Matt enjoys teaching the trades of engineering to new professionals and extends opportunities and challenges to allow for the growth of individuals, while increasing the company’s capacity.  Matt oversees Farr West’s internal Young Professional Forum, which provides monthly training to developing engineers.

Matt earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and serves as the local outreach chair. Matt enjoys spending his free time with his wife and three daughters.  Matt grew up in Reno and enjoys mountain biking, hunting. fishing, camping, and spending time at all of the area lakes.

Damon McAlister is a principal engineer with Farr West.  Damon has been responsible for the planning, design, and construction administration of civil and environmental engineering projects for over 25 years. His experience includes managing small to large multi-million dollar utility improvement projects comprised of engineers, geologist, archaeologists, environmental scientists, and planners.  His engineering experience also includes tribal development projects which required working with federal, state, and local agencies.  His style of honest, open communication allows him to create collaborative partnerships amongst the team members, permitting agencies, the contractor, and most importantly the client.  

Damon earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from the University of Idaho. He is a licensed professional civil engineer in Nevada, Washington, and Idaho, and is a long standing member of the American Water Works Association, American Public Works Association, and Water Environment Federation.

Away from the office, Damon enjoys spending time with his wife and two boys.  He and his family train Labrador puppies in their beginning stages of becoming special needs companion dogs. His other hobbies include outdoor activities, such as skiing, golf, backpacking, and fishing, as well as traveling abroad.

David Pulley is a principal engineer with over 25 years of experience, a broad engineering background, a strong work ethic and valuable management skills.  David is our lead engineer for the mining industry.  He has engineered site and utility infrastructure projects for private and public sector clients including water process, packaged water and wastewater treatment plants, pump stations, water distribution and wastewater collection systems, reuse water systems, hydrology, hydraulics, drainage studies, and drainage infrastructure. He has designed subdivisions, mine drainage and water systems, commercial and industrial sites, mass grading plans and streets and roundabouts. David has performed various mine water process studies, potable water system studies, sanitary sewer collection system reports, preliminary design/engineering reports, detention pond analysis, and floodplain analysis and prepared design requirement guidelines.  David is experienced with contract, bid, specification documents and construction management.

David enjoys challenging work and finding solutions to problems.  He is a detail-oriented engineer, ensuring a quality design that meets regulations to obtain permits and meet client needs at bid.  He can aid clients in procurement, contractor selection and provide construction management. 

In his time away from the office, David enjoys being a family man.  He and his wife have 6 children that they have raised in the Elko area.  David also enjoys sneaking away to go fly fishing with Brent when he visits the Elko office.

Coralee Griswold is the Elko office manager for Farr West. As a fourth generation Native Nevadan, she has spent most of her career in small business ownership in rural areas of Nevada.  Coralee brings experience in finance and government regulations/impacts to Farr West. She also assists with the management and implementation of the company’s project and finance management software.  Coralee is responsible for all corporate aspects of finance, payroll and human resources.  She oversees the office administration of the Elko office, as well as supports and advises the Reno office, and our subsidiary company, Sierra Controls, LLC.

Coralee has an associated degree in nursing and earned her bachelor of science degree in biology from the University of Nevada, Reno. She has held various offices within the Elko community and served as a board member with the Northeastern Nevada Historical Society, Elko Navy League, Western Folklife Center, Elko Chamber of Commerce, and the California Trails Interpretive Center. She is an avid researcher, and with her husband enjoys combining travel with excursions that pursue history and genealogy.

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Lisa Pruitt is the Reno office manager for Farr West Engineering. Lisa is responsible for the office administration to address all aspects of payroll, finance, and human resources. She also assists with human resources for our subsidiary company, Sierra Controls, LLC.

Lisa has an associate degree in general studies from the Truckee Meadows Community College. She earned her bachelor of science degree in acounting with an emphasis in fraud examination and forensic accounting from Southern New Hampshire University.

Lisa is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). 

Lisa enjoys camping, hiking, and traveling with her husband and two sons.