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Employee Bio: Matt

5/15/2020

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Matt Stallcup has been with Total Habitat since October of 2014. He is originally from Kansas City, Missouri, but has lived in Lawrence, Kansas for 10 years and now lives in De Soto, Kansas. Matt enjoys working at Total Habitat because of the creative freedom and opportunity for interesting problem solving tasks.

When asked what his favorite tool was, he responded with, “whatever tool is right for the job at hand”.  Making the most of your time and effort is his ideal way to complete a project. Another phrase you will hear frequently within Total Habitat is, “work smarter, not harder”.


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Matt building a stream for a project in California
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Matt Testing our Swinging Vines
Matt is definitely a motorhead, he loves all kinds of motorsports. He raced go-karts when he was younger and continues to work on cars and motors today. Matt loves bringing his fabrication skills from work into his hobbies. In the past he has built a racing rig with friends for racing simulation games, and he is just starting to do a full rebuild on his old Toyota pickup truck.

When Matt isn’t tinkering or building something he is spending time with his wife and their dog Anakin.


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Matt and Anakin at the Petrified National Forest
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Matt's Racing Simulator Rig
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Employee Bio: Dale

5/8/2020

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Dale has been working with Mick since 1998 when they met at the Sedgwick Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, and has been working full time with Total Habitat since early 2001. Dale is from and currently lives in Wichita Kansas. His favorite thing about working with Total Habitat is that “looming sense of accomplishment” you get when creating something new for a project.  When asked what his favorite tool was he jokingly stated, “Whichever tool that just broke, every time!”.

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Scaling the climbing wall.
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Dale managing the concrete hose for a specialty concrete rock climbing wall.
Dale is extremely creative both at work and outside of it. He created the stamp we use put on some of our larger concrete projects that you can see above. He has made some terrifyingly accurate zombies costumes, and designed numerous t-shirt, patch, and sticker designs. When he isn't designing something new, you can find him spending time with his 5 dachsunds (Jesse, Mira, Juno, Sadie, Rudy) or singing. You can often find Dale singing karaoke in Wichita, and he especially likes when he can find live band karaoke to participate in across the county when traveling with work.

His favorite joke is, "How many psychologists does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, but the light bulb has to want to change."
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Jesse the Dachshund, the long dog in charge.
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Employee Bio: Sophia

5/1/2020

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Sophia (will also respond to Soph or Ace) has been designing with Total Habitat since 2013.  She is originally from Wichita, moved to Bonner Springs in her teens, and has now called Lawrence Kansas home for the last decade. Sophia’s favorite work tools are Vectorworks for creating our construction detailed drawings, and Realtime Landscaping Pro to quickly visualize spaces in 3D.  What Sophia enjoys most about working with Total Habitat is seeing her two-dimensional drawings coming to life in the world. She said it is extremely rewarding seeing people enjoying their completed project knowing it started out as a simple idea on a piece of paper.


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Sophia becoming part of the flora during a job in the Pacific Northwest
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Sophia & Matt discussion the rock climbing wall project
Outside of work Sophia sings and plays in a band named Artful Darling, they play grunge folk music and perform around the Kansas City area.  She is a member of the Kansas City Roller Warriors, the roller derby league in Kansas City. She is on the Victory Vixens team and they are Rink of Fire Championship winners as of July 2019!  

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