Meet Our Speakers
Don Teter
Fairmont State University
Assistant Professor of Surveying
Don Teter began surveying in 1974, and has been licensed since 1982. He is a past-President of the West Virginia Society of Professional Surveyors, and edited the quarterly West Virginia Surveyor for over ten years. He is a member of the Board of Professional Surveyors Complaint Review Committee and an occasional investigator for the Board. Don has been presenting continuing education seminars for surveyors for over 15 years, and is Assistant Professor of Surveying at Fairmont State University.
Introduction to Private Easements and Practical Location (2 PDHs)
Minimum Standards and Ethics Pt 1 (2 PDHs)
Minimum Standards and Ethics Pt 2 (2 PDHs)
Jennifer Dibona
That CAD Girl
Jennifer DiBona is a long-time CAD consultant and trainer doing business as That CAD Girl. She is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Many years ago when working in civil engineering and land surveying offices, she found herself working primarily with men (naturally). Since she was the only “girl” in the office, clients or others asking for her would often simply ask for “That CAD Girl”. The name stuck.
Jennifer has a degree in Surveying and worked in various consulting offices for approximately 15 years. After her time working as a designer and drafter, she then worked for an Autodesk reseller as a Civil 3d Implementation Certified Expert (ICE) and built their technical services division from the ground up.
Jennifer is one of the charter members of Carlson College which is the certified program for authorized Carlson Software trainers and she also wrote the “CAD Picks and Clicks” column for Professional Surveyor Magazine.
Jennifer is a member of the Steering Committee for Version 6 of the National CAD Standard®, serves as Chair of the Survey/Civil Task Team and co-Chair of the CAD Layer Guidelines Task Team.
Survey Project from Field to Plotted Sheet in Carlson Software (2 PDHs)
Tips & Tricks of Carlson Software (2 PDHs)
Jared Wilson
East Tennessee State University
Professor of Practice
Mr. Jared Wilson is an assistant professor of land surveying at East Tennessee State University the Department of Engineering, Engineering Technology, and Surveying. He has taught courses regarding general land surveying applications, principles, computations, professional decisions, and field management procedures. His professional focus is on educating future surveyors and the public with regards to the field of land surveying. Mr. Wilson is a licensed land surveyor in West Virginia and has been an active member of the West Virginia Society of Professional Surveyors since 2010.
The Quality of Measurement: A pragmatic and objectionable analysis of the quality of measurement and the applications within land surveying techniques and adjustments (2 PDHs)
Marshall Robinson
Allegheny Surveys
Owner
Marshall Robinson, PS is the owner of Allegheny Surveys, Inc. of Birch River, and has practiced land surveying since he graduated from Glenville State College in 1985. He has served as a director and president of WVSPS, served two terms on the Board of Professional Surveyors, and is licensed to practice land surveying in West Virginia and four neighboring states. He has presented various seminars over the years in the boundary resolution arena, and has served as an expert witness in over 30 federal and state lawsuits. He resides in the eastern end of Clay County with his wife DeVona, and Abraham, the youngest of their three sons.
Case Studies in Chaos (2 PDHs)
Jeff Jalbrzikowski
Geodesist
Jeff Jalbrzikowski, P.S., GISP, is your Appalachian Regional Geodetic Advisor with the National Geodetic Survey. He began his geospatial career when he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a Field Artillery Surveyor. Jeff has spent his career performing a variety of field and office survey functions, including structural deformation monitoring; boundary retracement; terrestrial LiDAR scanning; single- and multi-beam hydrography; and local/legacy datum resolution. Before joining the NGS team, he’s had stints with a land development firm performing construction and boundary surveys, as a cadastral surveyor with the BLM, as a GIS technician with multiple employers, and as a surveyor with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District. Jeff is a licensed surveyor in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, and is a certified GIS Professional. https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/ADVISORS/
NSRS Modernization - Replacing NAD83, NAVD88, and revamping SPCS83 (2 PDHs)
Gary Schuller
University of Akron
Professor, Surveying and Mapping
Gary began his surveying career in 1980, working as a rodman out of Canfield, Ohio. He spent time working as a draftsman, engineering technician, and instrument man and has been a licensed Professional Surveyor in Ohio since 1992, providing expert witness testimony and performing boundary, construction, and engineering-related surveys throughout much of northeastern Ohio. Gary serves on a team of subject matter experts for the Ohio Professional Surveyor Examination Committee of the State board of Registration and in similar capacity to help update the national FS exam blueprint in 2018. Gary earned a master’s degree in 2001 and has been a full-time faculty member at The University of Akron since 1999 in one of only 23 accredited Surveying programs in the United States.
As part of a 4-month sabbatical from teaching in 2016, he began exploring the application of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and how this might impact surveying and mapping professional services and education. After passing the Part 107 exam he began to incorporate UAS into surveying classes such as Applied Photogrammetry and UAS Mapping.
Gary’s wife Susan says that “he loves surveying so much that he talks about it in his sleep.” His reply: “if you ever decide to give up your nursing career, you’ll be well on your way to becoming a surveyor!” Gary has been an active volunteer with Habitat for Humanity of Summit County, completing 30 surveying service-learning projects with over 300 of his students since 2001.
Not Your Grandfather’s Surveying – Flying Robots in the Surveyor’s Toolbox (2 PDHs)
David Ingram
Ingram-Hagen & Co
Mr. Ingram is a Licensed Land Surveyor in three states, having been first Licensed in West Virginia in 1975 and later that year in Virginia. Maryland registration was granted in 1981. He is a 1978 graduate of James Madison University holding degrees in Economics and Business Administration.
Prior to retirement in the fall of 2016, Mr. Ingram owned and managed a surveying and engineering firm for over 40 years. During that time he was an active member of several state and national professional associations including the Virginia Association of Surveyors, West Virginia Association of Land Surveyors, Maryland Society of Surveyors, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, National Society of Professional Surveyors, and Surveyors Historical Society. He has held numerous positions in these organizations including Secretary / Treasurer of the National Society of Professional Surveyors for three terms, two terms as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, multiple terms and past Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Surveyors Historical Society, Chapter President and member of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Association of Surveyors, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Surveying in Lansing, Michigan. He was a program evaluator for the Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology (ABET), served on the Surveying Advisory Committee at East Tennessee State University, authored several articles and papers dealing with the history of surveying, and has made numerous presentations related to the ethics and history of surveying and engineering. He continues many of these activities in retirement.
Mr. Ingram resides in Mount Crawford, Virginia, where he is enjoying retirement and learning new skills as a machinist and silversmith as he restores and repairs antique surveying equipment.
Those Amazing Surveyors and Surveys of Early America (2 PDHs)