Unconfined Solutions, LLC is a Huntsville, Alabama based civil engineering firm founded May 9, 2026. It has a certificate of authorization to practice engineering in the state of Alabama. Please contact us for a free consultation for your next project. Unconfined Solutions can provide you with civil engineering services and utilize subconsultants for surveying, landscape architecture and photometric design on your project.

The firm was founded by Maxwell R. Carter, PE, CFM. He is a licensed professional engineer in Alabama and Tennessee and a certified floodplain manager. The Huntsville native is a graduate of Huntsville High School (2013). In 2018 he graduated from The Tickle College of Engineering at The University of Tennessee earning a bachelors degree in civil engineering with degree concentrations in water resources and construction engineering with a minor in watersheds. 

Carter has experience working in municipal engineering departments as a professional engineer for The City of Madison, Alabama and as an intern with The City of Huntsville, Alabama in 2016. He has experience working on site plans and traffic control as the engineer of record for the fire department, SWAT team, parks and recreation department and city utilities. He also gained experience with designing asphalt and concrete pavement, Redi-Rock retaining walls, and temporary traffic control plans. Additionally he has experience with capital improvement projects for transportation infrastructure and flood mitigation. 

In 2023 he worked for a civil engineering firm in Nashville, Tennessee primarily working on healthcare projects across the United States, but also on mixed use developments in the Nashville area. While working as a subconsultant on architectural design teams he designed the civil site improvements for a six story parking garage, a medgas liquid oxygen storage tank farm, a mobile MRI pad, a sterile processing facility, free standing emergency rooms, a master plan of a medical center campus and new additions to existing hospital facilities.

After earning his professional engineering license in 2022 he moved to Gainesville, Florida and briefly enrolled at The University of Florida for postbaccalaureate studies in geomatics. In 2021 Carter passed the professional surveyors exam.

Prior to Gainesville Carter worked for a Huntsville, Alabama based civil engineering firm in its Huntsville and Pensacola, Florida offices working on land development projects for real estate developers and homebuilders. He worked at this firm for over four years from 2018 to 2022 and as a summer intern in 2017. The projects included the design of an Australian steakhouse restaurant, warehouses, and a cottage community for young adult orphans. He also performed and assisted professional engineers and land surveyors with many other civil engineering and surveying responsibilities on subdivision projects.

During his final year of college Carter worked as an undergraduate research assistant for Dr. John Schwartz's research group in the water quality lab and in the field. He assisted with soil chemistry research following the 2016 wildfire in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and also performed construction surveying on the construction of a flume for bridge pier scour research. At UT he was a member of Hydrolunteers and the American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter. In ASCE he served as a student officer and surveying team captain. He was also an initiated brother in Alpha Kappa Psi and Phi Gamma Delta.

In 2024, Carter created a website called The Engineering Resource which is a free, noncommercialized meta-resource for engineering students, educators, professionals and the general public. It has been linked to by academic institution, engineering trade association, and engineering firm websites. The website has also been written about by The Huntsville Business Journal and Business Alabama Magazine.  Carter is promoting The Hill Family Foundation's Grant Hill Trauma Team which provides mental health counseling to foster and special needs children at Kids to Love in Huntsville.

Carter is an active volunteer with the Special Olympics, Kairos Prison Ministry International, the North Alabama Hockey Association and the live stream team at First Presbyterian Church of Huntsville. He is working to research how civil engineers can improve pedestrian safety for individuals with intellectual disabilities.

Maxwell R. Carter photo provided by Patrick Ary with Kids to Love Foundation.

Big Spring International Park photo by Maxwell R. Carter.