From contracting with NASA to drilling through Texas soil, Omar Hashem, a 47-year resident of the Houston-Galveston area, has skyrocketed his career paths in two directions.
When the NASA Space Shuttle Program ended in 2011, Hashem and several thousand others in the Houston area were out of jobs and looking for work. Hashem picked up soil sampling as a way to earn money while looking for a permanent career. The opportunity eventually launched him into developing a successful geotechnical and environmental drilling business: Geo Enviro Drill LLC.