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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Margaret McMenamin, PE, CFM on several committees. He previously served Harold R. Schultz, II, LS
Margaret McMenamin is a Professional the Society as President and Chairman of the Harry Schultz is the Vice President of Waypoint
Engineer with over ten years of experience Education Committee. Throughout his career he Technology Group where he has worked for the
in the environmental consulting and water has worked for various engineering, surveying past fifteen years. He is a licensed Professional
resources industry. Since joining Wetland and civil consulting firms, gaining experience Land Surveyor with over 25 years of experience
Studies and Solutions, Inc. (WSSI), a Davey Tree in multiple facets of surveying, engineering and using Trimble technology for high-accuracy
Company, early in 2013, she has been involved land use consulting. His diversified experience data collection. He is also certified by Trimble
in stormwater management, hydrologic and has allowed him to work on projects that serve to provide professional training for all of their
hydraulic modeling, floodplain mapping, and different market sectors including the general Geospatial hardware and software solutions. At
stream stabilization and restoration projects. public, state and local government, private Waypoint Technology Group, Mr. Schultz leads
Ms. McMenamin is also the WSSI CAD Manager, developers, public utilities and private utilities. the survey sales team while also providing
assisting all the Davey Tree Company’s Davey Currently, Mr. Reeser, is the Director of Surveys customized training, support, and consultation
Resource Group (DRG), as well as working at Hunt Engineering Company, based in Malvern, services to their customers. Harry received
in internal development and mentoring. She PA. He has been a frequent presenter of varied his AAS in Land Surveying from Paul Smiths
has been teaching the AutoCAD and Civil 3D topics at the annual Pennsylvania Society of College in the Adirondack mountains of NY.
courses through Civil Training, LLC since 2019. Professional Land Surveyors conference as well Prior to Waypoint Technology Group, he worked
as the New York Association of Professional Land
JT Moore Surveyors annual conference. His expanding for a large Survey/Engineering firm as a land
JT Moore is the Deputy Commissioner for list of presentation topics includes: writing surveyor on projects all over the Northeastern
the United States Section of the International legal descriptions, communications in the portion of the United States.
Boundary Commission, United States and Canada workplace, survey registration law, survey math, James S. Thew, LS
(IBC). With over 33 years of surveying, he started professional ethics and historical subjects. Jim is a 1991 graduate of the University of
his career in the private sector in 1989 in Virginia Maine (Orono) with a Bachelor of Science in
Beach, VA. He began his service with the Federal Bahram Salehi, PhD Surveying Engineering. He obtained licensure
government in 1992 with the National Geodetic Dr. Salehi is an Associate Professor of Geospatial
Survey (NGS) spending 7 years conducting high Engineering and Director of the American in NYS as a Professional Land Surveyor in
accuracy GPS surveys on airfields in support Society for Photogrammetry and Remote 1996. From 1997-2005, Jim served as the
of FAA programs. From there, he moved on to Sensing (ASPRS) Unmanned Aerial Systems Drilling Division Manager for Atlantic Testing
the Department of Defense for another 7 years Division (UASD), boasting over two decades of Laboratories. In 2006, he decided that he would
working for HQ Air Force Flight Standards Agency expertise in geospatial engineering and remote focus on growing the surveying company, Thew
as a geodesist supporting air traffic control and sensing across academia and industry. His Associates, PE-LS, PLLC. Jim is now a former
landing system evaluations. In 2006, JT joined research focuses on machine learning, algorithm Principal of Thew Associates, PE-LS, PLLC and
the IBC where he oversaw field operations for the development, and the application of multispectral, continues to work in the profession. Jim also
US Section and moved on to his current position synthetic aperture radar (SAR), LiDAR, and UAV serves as the chair of the NYSAPLS Government
in 2015. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, fishing, data for environmental monitoring, particularly Relations Committee and as a member of the
and playing music. in forest biomass and carbon quantification, and Workforce Development Committee.
wetland and water quality assessment. With
Sean O’Connell more than 75 peer-reviewed publications and Jeremy E. Thompson, LS
Sean is the Data Improvement Manager for book chapters, Dr. Salehi has garnered over Jeremy Thompson, LS is, and has been, a
NYS Geospatial Services and the NYS GIS 5500 citations and maintains a Google Scholar Licensed Professional Land Surveying in New
Clearinghouse Coordinator. He previously h-index of 36 as of July 2024. He has supervised York since 2007. Jeremy worked in the private
worked in GIS roles for the NYS Department numerous graduate and undergraduate students, sector for 23 years, starting in the late 1990’s
of Environmental Conservation and the NYS including post-doctoral fellows, PhD, and MSc with the US Forest Service in Petersburg,
Department of Transportation. Throughout his 10 students, many of whom have achieved notable Alaska; then for a couple of years with Atlantic
years of GIS experience, Sean has had a focus distinctions. Dr. Salehi’s contributions have been Testing (eventually becoming Thew Associates)
in emergency response, ortho-imagery, LiDAR, recognized with prestigious awards such as in Canton, New York; and for the better part
web services, and data management. Sean is the Early Career Achievement Medal from the of 20 years with LaFave, White, & McGivern,
also a member of the NYS Incident Management Canadian Remote Sensing Society in 2019 and L.S., P.C., (LWM) a medium-sized surveying
Team and has deployed for incidents across NYS an Outstanding Service Award from ASPRS in and mapping firm based in northern Jefferson
for various disasters including multiple wildfires, 2024, acknowledging his pivotal role in advancing County, New York. Following his time with LWM,
storm damages, and Lake Ontario flooding. He digital geospatial data standards. In 2023, he Jeremy accepted the position as Surveying
has also been deployed to multiple out of state was ranked among the top 3 scholars in remote Instructor at the Ranger School in Wanakena,
incidents, most recently for tornadoes in Kentucky. sensing in the United States by ScholarGPS, a New York, where he is currently in his sixth-
Scott R. Reeser, PLS leading platform for analyzing scholarly activities. year teaching Introduction to Land Surveying,
Survey Law, Advanced Survey Measurements
Scott R. Reeser, PLS, has over 30 years of Don O. Seals, RPLS and Computations, and Computer Aided Drafting
experience in surveying and design. Mr. Reeser Don Seals is the Surveying/LiDAR manager for and Design. Along with his teaching, Jeremy
is a graduate of the Penn State University TREKK company-wide acquisitions with direct
Surveying Program, where he earned an responsibility for nationwide mobile LiDAR continues to provide consulting services and
Associate Degree in Surveying Technology. He services. Don has 16 years of land perform limited surveys primarily during the
has been a licensed Professional Land Surveyor surveying experience on multiple summer months. Jeremy has been an active
in Pennsylvania since 2008, and also holds large- and small-scale LiDAR member with the New York State
surveying licenses in NY (2012), WV (2013), surveying projects using static Association of Professional Land
CO (2014), DE (2019) and MD (2022). He is an and sUAS technologies. Surveyors (NYSAPLS) for over twenty
active member of the Pennsylvania Society of years and is currently serving as
Professional Land Surveyors, where he served President of the Association. 19 19