S.E.N.L.S.A. FALL SEMINAR

Saturday, December 8, 2012

College of Graduate Studies

Concordia University - CGS
570 Fallbrook Blvd., Suite 203
Lincoln, NE 68521

8:30 A.M. - 12:45 P.M.

 
“The Progression of Nebraska’s GLO Surveys”
 
Jerry Penry RLS 504
Lancaster County Engineering Department 

Jerry Penry is a Nebraska licensed land surveyor who began his surveying career in 1984.  A native of Atkinson, Jerry attended Southeast Community College in Milford after high school and has remained in southeast Nebraska.  After employment with various private surveying companies in Lincoln for 12 years, Jerry has worked for Lancaster County Engineering since 1997 and currently manages the survey department.  He has had over twenty articles published in professional magazines and has authored several books.  Jerry currently lives in Milford. 

“Oddities in Nebraska Surveys”  

Gene Thomsen  RLS 397

Deputy State Surveyor
 
Gene Thomsen is a life-long resident of Nebraska who grew up on a farm between Fairmont and Exeter Nebraska.  He attended Kearney State College, and graduated from Southeast Community College with an associates degree in Civil Engineering and Surveying.  Gene worked in private practice before joining the Nebraska Department of Roads Design Division in 1974.  He has been a Registered Land Surveyor in Nebraska since 1983 and became a Deputy State Surveyor in 1988.  His interest is survey history has inspired him to write articles for the Professional Surveyors Association of Nebraska as well as “Nebraska History” published by the Nebraska State Historical Society.

S.E.N.L.S.A. FALL SEMINAR

Saturday, October 20, 2012

College of Graduate Studies
Concordia University - CGS
570 Fallbrook Blvd., Suite 203
Lincoln, NE 68521
8:30 A.M. - 12:45 P.M.

Hydrological Surveying on the Missouri River

Brenda Densmore

USGS Nebraska Water Science Center

Brenda Densmore has worked for the USGS Nebraska Water Science Center since 2001. She has an undergraduate degree in fisheries and wildlife and a graduate degree in Natural Resources with emphasis in Aquatic Ecology, both from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  She has expertise in water-quality and biological monitoring programs, GPS and LiDAR surveying, and hydrographic surveying.  The newest tool being utilized by the NEWSC is a multibeam echosounder.  Brenda and other scientists in Nebraska have been deploying this equipment in Nebraska, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Cambodia to produce detailed hydrographic maps to answer a number of scientific questions.

Boundary Surveying on the Missouri River

Gene Thomsen  RLS 397

Deputy State Surveyor

Gene Thomsen is a life-long resident of Nebraska who grew up on a farm between Fairmont and Exeter Nebraska.  He attended Kearney State College, and graduated from Southeast Community College with an associates degree in Civil Engineering and Surveying.  Gene worked in private practice before joining the Nebraska Department of Roads Design Division in 1974.  He has been a Registered Land Surveyor in Nebraska since 1983 and became a Deputy State Surveyor in 1988.  His interest is survey history has inspired him to write articles for the Professional Surveyors Association of Nebraska as well as “Nebraska History” published by the Nebraska State Historical Society.

Steve Cobb  RLS 412

Nebraska State Surveyor

Mr. Cobb has over 35 years of experience as a land surveyor in both the public and private sectors. Mr. Cobb was registered to practice in Nebraska in 1982. Mr. Cobb came to the Nebraska State Surveyor’s Office in 1987, appointed a Deputy State Surveyor in 1989 and the State Surveyor in 2005.

S.E.N.L.S.A. SUMMER SEMINAR
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Mahoney State Park
Main Lodge
28500 W. Park Hwy
Ashland, NE
8:30 A.M. - 12:45 P.M.

'The Nebraska Surveying Pamphlet'

James E. Lang

Laughlin, Peterson & Lang
Attorneys at Law
11718 Nicholas Street, Suite 101
Omaha, NE 68154-2630
(402) 330-1900
(402) 330-0936
jimlang@lpllaw.com      

Jim Lang received his Juris Doctor, from Creighton University in 1974, and is a member of the Nebraska State and Iowa State Bar Associations. Having the honor of being admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts of Nebraska and Iowa and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Jim has extensive experience in Land Use, Zoning, Real Estate and Commercial Law.

'The Surveyor’s role in Planning and Building Nebraska’s Communities'

City of Lincoln

Brian Will
Planner II
City of Lincoln Planning Department
555 S. 10^th Street
Suite 213
Lincoln, NE 68508
P: 402-441-6362
E: Bwill@lincoln.ne.gov

“Brian Will is a planner in the Development Review Division of the Lancaster County/City of Lincoln Planning Department.  A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, he graduated from UN-L in 1984 with a B.S in Economics, and accepted a commission and entered active duty with the U.S. Army.  He went on to receive a Master of Community and Regional Planning degree in 1990, also from UN-L, and has worked as a planner ever since.  His experience includes ten years in his current position, and prior to that the Albany County/City of Laramie Planning Office in Laramie, Wyoming, the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MAPA) in Omaha, and the City of Omaha Planning Department.  During this time he has been involved with many aspects of planning at the local government level, but with emphasis on current planning/development review which has always included land subdivision and platting.”

City of Omaha

Jay Davis
Assistant Planning Director

Superintendent of Permits and Inspection Division
City of Omaha Planning Department
1819 Farnam Street
Suite 1110
Omaha, NE 68123
P: 402-444-5378
C: 402-699-9863
E: Jay.Davis@ci.omaha.ne.us

Jay is Assistant Planning Director and Superintendent of the Building and Development Division of the City of Omaha Planning Department. He started his career with the City of Omaha 15 years ago as building inspector and specialized in inspection of commercial facilities under construction or renovation. In 1999, Jay was promoted to Chief Building Inspector, a position he held until December of 2011 when he was promoted to his current position.

Prior to coming to the city, Jay was a project manager and designer for an Omaha architectural and engineering firm. Because of his background in the design of office and warehouse space in the metal building industry, his original work was centered on those facilities. He quickly branched out to multi-family projects and highly specialized facilities in the travel industry.

Jay maintains the following certifications:

International Code Council Building Inspector with a commercial designation
NCSBCS Federal Manufactured Housing Construction Inspector
HUD Federal Fair Housing Certificate
ADA Compliance Certificate.

S.E.N.L.S.A. SPRING SEMINAR

Saturday, March 17, 2012
Embassy Suites
Conference Center
Omaha - La Vista
12520 Westport Pkwy
La Vista, NE 68128
8:30 A.M. - 12:45 P.M.

The FARO 3D Scanner

Pat Stack

Technical Field & Sales Specialist

Pat Stack has over thirteen
years of experience with Seiler Instrument Company. Pat has become the go-to person

for his knowledge and expertise in the use of Faro® Scanning, Trimble® Mapping and
Scanning equipment along with Real Works and Autodesk Software.

Pat has attended and successfully completed several Trimble 3D Laser training seminars at Trimble
Navigation headquartered in Westminster Colorado. Additionally, Pat Stack has presented over
the years at several regional Land Survey Conferences such as Missouri Society of Professional

Land Surveyors, Illinois Professional Land Surveyors as well as Professional Surveyors Association

of Nebraska.

Pat specializes in integrating field data into Autodesk products to streamline the processes and

guiding users in the most efficient use of their equipment and software. Prior to joining Seiler,

Pat had over ten years in civil engineering drafting experience utilizing AutoCAD, Softdesk and

Land Desktop. Pat has assisted in numerous onsite 3D Scanning analyses with several local

and regional firms such as Fred Weber, Thouvenot Wade and Moerchen, Woolpert, David Mason

and Associates, and MoDOT.

The VRS Network in Nebraska

Chad Voss
Survey/GPS/Robotics/Scanning/Construction - Sales Specialist

Chad Voss is a native of Denison, Iowa and graduated from Northwest Missouri State University

in 1996 with a degree in Geography/Geology. He has been involved in the surveying equipment

and supplies industry since 1999. He opened the Seiler Instrument office in Omaha in 2005.

His interests include golfing, fishing, hunting, camping and snowmobiling.

Chad is a point man for one of the most exciting technologies to emerge in surveying in recent

years; that of Trimble’s Virtual Reference Stations (VRS) for Real Time Kinematic (RTK) GNSS
surveys.

Seiler Instrument Company has been a pioneer in VRS networks in the Midwest, beginning with

the private, cooperative MWRTK network. This experience led them to facilitating and constructing
state wide Real Time Networks for the Missouri Department of Transportation and the Wisconsin

Department of Transportation. They are in the process of merging our MWRTK network in Illinois

with Trimble’s VRS Now network.

Developing the GIS/Geospatial Strategic
Plan for Nebraska

Nathan Watermeier
GIS Administrative Manager

Nebraska GIS Coordinator

Office of the CIO/NITC

501 South 14th Street
Lincoln, Nebraska 68509
p: 402-471-3206
Nathan.Watermeier@Nebraska.gov
http://nitc.nebraska.gov/gisc

Nathan Watermeier is the GIS Coordinator for the State of Nebraska housed in the Office

of the CIO. His role is working with the Nebraska Information Technology Commission’s

GIS Council to advocate, manage and administer strategic plans, standards, and operational

and technical policies as it relates to GIS. He will be coordinating shared service initiatives

and administer an enterprise-wide state government environment and data sharing activities

involving geospatial technologies, geodatabases and web services.

The majority of his career was spent at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio where

he was the Program Director for the Ohio Geospatial Program. He led the organization and

various teams in the development of a geospatial and information systems infrastructure for
supporting research and technology transfer activities. His specialized research and instructional

training focused on GIS, remote sensing, mobile global positioning systems (GPS), and spatial

analysis techniques on various agriculture, water management, and environmental topics. He is

most noted for leading the development of a nation-wide geographic information data management
system for type A influenza virus bio-security surveillance program for the USDA National

Research Institute. Overall, his program accumulated over $10 million dollars in external support

for technology development and education through USDA, National Science Foundation, NASA,

and private funds. He spent time in private industry as a Director of Market Research and Site Selection

for a commercial real estate developer locating and purchasing properties across the U.S. for senior

living housing using geospatial technologies. He also served as the Dean of Communications,

Information Technology, Construction, and Electronics Divisions at Southeast Community College.

There he provided leadership for 13 academic programs with over 50 faculty including the information

technologies, CADD, land survey, and civil engineering programs.