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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Steven J. MacDonald, LS, PE, C.H. IT and survey support for Autodesk, Trimble, and Leica Kathryn Sommo, ISA Arborist, CPESC
Mr. MacDonald is the Director of Surveys at S.T. survey solutions since 2011. He initially focused on Ms. Sommo is a certified ISA Arborist, Certified
Hudson Engineers, and has 18 years of experience utilizing the survey products for field operations and Wetland Director, and Certified Professional in
performing terrestrial and bathymetric surveying. then progressed to supporting other firms through Erosion and Sediment Control (CPESC) with over
Within this experience is over 10 years of field consultation and training. Mr. Quirin has an extensive 20 years of experience in site assessment (surface
experience surveying nearshore, intra-costal, and background in the development, implementation, and water, groundwater, soil and sediment investigations),
inland waterways above and below the water surface. training of reality capture solutions. He has logged habitat restoration design, construction oversight and
He is constantly working on innovative approaches to hundreds of hours on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) post construction monitoring; wetland delineation
shallow water surveying. systems and managed over 250 reality capture projects and assessment; wetland permitting; stream bank
Dawn F. McCall, GISP in multiple states across the East Coast. Mr. Quirin has stabilization; treatment wetlands for stormwater
assisted numerous clients with the integration of reality
Dawn F. McCall, GISP has been a Geographical capture technologies into their current workflows. His management; arborist services; and tree inventories.
Ms. Sommo has conducted, managed or overseen
Informations Systems Professional for over 25 experience covers high-definition laser scanning, drone investigations and remediations at many sites located
years. She currently is the Director of GIS Services LiDAR/photogrammetry, least squares adjustments, across the country. Ms. Sommo specializes in
at Control Point Associates, Inc. and supports GIS Leica Cyclone, Pix4D, Hypack, and CloudCompare. wetlands regulatory evaluation, permitting, monitoring,
needs throughout the entire corporate footprint from Mr. Quirin’s training experience ranges from surveying remediation, and mitigation and sediment disposal
Maine to Virginia. She has extensive knowledge in and engineering firms to fire and police departments management. Ms. Sommo recently completed several
GIS and Land Records with experience in project for public safety. Mr. Quirin provides training and projects that include waterfront site vulnerability analysis
management, database management, and systems consultation for drone and scanning services while for floodplain, sea level rise and storm surge projections.
integration. Dawn has over 13 years dedicated to continuing to utilize these same technologies at Wetland She holds a B.S. in Fishery Biology from Colorado State
facilities and land-related issues relating to GIS Studies and Solutions, Inc. University and she is currently a Senior Project Manager
integration. Dawn is actively involved in many GIS and for Roux.
Surveying professional organizations including URISA Scott R. Reeser, LS
International, DGDC, eDUG, GeoMUG, New Jersey Scott R. Reeser, LS, has over 30 years’ experience Jeremy E. Thompson, LS
Society of Professional Land Surveyors (NJSPLS), in surveying and design. Mr. Reeser is a graduate Jeremy is a licensed land surveyor in NYS and is
the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Urban and Regional of the Penn State University Surveying Program, the current Instructor of Surveying at The New York
Information Systems Association (MAC URISA), where he earned an Associate Degree in Surveying State Ranger School in Wanankena. Prior to taking
where she spent 20 years on the board holding many Technology. He has been a licensed Professional up a career in education, Jeremy worked in the
positions from Trustee to President, and is current Land Surveyor in Pennsylvania since 2008, and also private sector, surveying for 23 years, the majority
President-Elect of the New York State GIS Association. holds surveying licenses in NY (2012), WV (2013), of which he spent with LaFave, White & McGivern,
Margaret McMenamin, PE CO (2014), DE (2019) and MD (2022). He is a L.S., P.C. working as the Survey Supervisor in their
member of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional
Theresa, NY office. Jeremy is actively involved
Margaret McMenamin is a Professional Engineer with Land Surveyors, where he serves as the chair of in his community as well as in the surveying
over eight years of experience in the environmental the Education Committee. He previously served the profession and currently serves as Treasurer for the
consulting and water resources industry. Since joining Society as President. Throughout his career he has New York State Association of Professional Land
Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. (WSSI), a Davey worked for various engineering, surveying and civil Surveyors (NYSAPLS), as well as a member of the
Tree Company, early in 2013, she has been involved consulting firms, gaining experience in multiple facets Northern New York and Black River Valley Regional
in stormwater management, hydrologic and hydraulic of surveying, engineering and land use consulting. Associations, and as a member of NYSAPLS
modeling, floodplain mapping, and stream stabilization His diversified experience has allowed him to work on Education Committee.
and restoration projects. Ms. McMenamin also projects that serve different market sectors including
assists with CAD standards and practices for WSSi’s the general public, state and local government, Gregory M. Vaverchak
engineering group, as well as internal development private developers, public utilities and private utilities. Greg Vaverchak is an International Society of
and mentoring. For the last year, she has been Currently, Mr. Reeser, is the Director of Surveys at Arboriculture, Board Certified Master Arborist. He is
teaching the AutoCAD Essentials, AutoCAD Beyond Hunt Engineering Company, based in Malvern, PA. also an assistant professor at the SUNY ESF Ranger
the Basics, and Introduction to Civil 3D courses He has been a frequent presenter of varied topics School in the department of Sustainable Resources
through Civil Training, LLC. at the annual Pennsylvania Society of Professional Management. Greg has been practicing arboriculture
Lemuel Morrison, LS Land Surveyors conference as well as the New York for 19 years.
Lemuel Morrison has 30 years of experience in surveying Association of Professional Land Surveyors annual Dan Wade, LS
and is currently working with GdB Geospatial. He is a conference. His expanding list of presentation topics Dan Wade is a Product Engineer for the ArcGIS for
licensed land surveyor in NY and 8 other states. He includes: writing legal descriptions, communications in AutoCAD product team at Esri. He has a degree
holds a BS in Land Surveying from the Ohio State the workplace, survey registration law, survey math, in Computer Science and a Master of Geospatial
University and an MBA from the Zicklin School of professional ethics and historical subjects. Information Science and Technology. He spent 20
Business at Baruch College. Lem is also an adjunct Edwin W. Rhodes, III, LS years in the Photogrammetry/Surveying field using
assistant professor at the NYC College of Technology Mr. Rhodes is a licensed Land Surveyor in NY and AutoCAD and Microstation and the last nine years
(CUNY) in the Department of Construction Management CT. He currently works as a Land Surveyor for utilizing ArcGIS Enterprise while supporting CAD
and Civil Engineering. He teaches land surveying, Rocco V. D’Andrea, Inc. and D’Andrea Surveying & workflow best practices with ArcGIS products.
boundary surveying and 3D scanning. He currently Engineering, P.C. He is responsible for many major Brian Willig
resides in Manhattan with his wife and daughter. surveys, supervision of field crews and procedures, Brian is a Senior Remote Pilot with Colliers
James Quirin and implementation of electronic surveying and data Engineering & Design with over 3 years of experience
James Quirin joined Wetland Studies and Solutions, collection equipment and post-processing of GPS flying drones for various types of surveys. He has
Inc. in the spring of 2019 after previously working as a observations. Since 2017, Mr. Rhodes taught classes hundreds of hours operating complex unmanned
reality capture manager and consultant in the surveying as CCSU under the CALS continuing education aircraft that carry specialized payloads including
field. Mr. Quirin presently manages survey projects aspect. Some of these classes were, Introduction to LiDAR, RGB Cameras, Thermal Sensors, and
for Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc., a Davey Tree Land Surveying and Leveling Theory and Operations Magnetometers. He has experience collecting multiple
Company, and provides training within the office and for for Surveying. Mr. Rhodes is currently a student at the hundreds of acres of data in as little as one day. He is
other clients nationwide. Mr. Quirin has been providing University of Maine, working on his BA/Master’s in the company’s internal trainer for Part 107 operations,
Surveying Technology. as well as for external organizations.
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