Maj. Joshua D. Connell (2002) graduated from the Air Force Institute of Technology with a Masters of Science in Engineering Management in March 2012. He currently stationed at the Pentagon serving on the Headquarters USAF Air Staff in the Office of the Air Force Civil Engineer.
Sean Pierce (2010) is currently working for Coler & Colantonio out of South Portland with Jeff Broumas (2011). They are working under Eric Poreda (1990). They are, for the most part, involved in a project called MPRP (Maine Power Reliabilty Program). Sean started with Coler & Colantonio in June of 2011. He left Skanska to return to Maine as a Party Chief running small boundary surveys for ROW land acquisition in Connecticut for Connecticut Light and Power . He also was involved in llarge scale construction layout in the energy sector for pipelines in West Virginia and transmission lines in Maine. For the past six months he has been overseeing all survey operations for MPRP, which includes over 400 miles of transmission structure layout. He brought Jeff Broumas back in September after a short hiatus to help out with more demanding clients. Jeff Broamas is now serving as a party chief as well as an office technician.
Matt Plante (2009) is a newly license surveyor in Maine. Congratulations Matt!
Kurt Wurm, P.L.S. (Ph.D., Spatial Information Engineering 2003) has been elected to the Board of Directors of New Mexico Geographic Information Council, Inc. (NMGIC). NMGIC is a multi-disiplinary group dedicated to all things geospatial: education, information sharing, technology advancement, and collaboration in the state of New Mexico.
NMGIC has several hundred members drawn from people in all walks of life - public, private, NGOs, corporate, educational institutions - professionals and students
Fred Stohlman (2007) is employed at Harry R Feldman, in Boston. Charlie Dexter is working as an instrument man. Dave Holland is also working at Harry R. Feldman and is doing well. At the moment Fred reports they are very busy and hoping work will continue through winter (2012)
Brent Jones (1987) now works out of ESRI’s DC office. He no longer manages the Survey and AEC portion of ESRI. He is concentrating solely on land records and cadastre.He has traveled worldwide and found it very exciting. He's been to many places without functioning land systems. (There are only about 40 well-functioning land systems in the world.)
Dan Oakes (2010) was hired by SGC as a survey tech and was sent to northern NH and worked on preliminary site work for the Granite Reliable Power Wind farm near Errol NH. The next job was as Party Chief. He was responsible for construction stake out on the KIbby Wind Farm. He spent his first summer as an alumni in the middle of western Maine setting and re-setting grade stakes. After the completion of the Kibby Wind Farm project he worked on a couple other Wind Farms staking clearing limits, pole locations, wetlands (on top of mountains in February in at least chest deep snow), and so on. Last April (2011) he was sent down to northern NJ to fill the role of a Data Tech on a construction pipeline project for about seven months. He didn't do much work with actual field data. Rather, he dealt with review of field practices. He made sure field notes were completed correctly, reviewed time sheets, kept up on redline drawings of the project, and answered any questions the client had. When he was first sent down to NJ he did not have any direction of what to do, he just kept an open mind and thought of what needed to be recorded and what the most efficient way of doing so. After the completion of the Pipeline in Northern NJ he came back to Maine only to do a little more traveling. He went to various parts of Colorado laser scanning gas valve assemblies with Chris Michaud (2002). Dan and Chris also went to Arizona and did laser scanning of a 20 Acre compressor station. Laser scanning is a powerful tool and SGC is currently pushing this tool towards many clients. He is now in PA filling the role of a survey supervisor on the restoration process of a pipeline. He plans to come back to Maine in June to work on a 7-mile pipeline that is going to construction.
Phoebe B Mcneally, Ph.D. (1997) is the DIGIT Lab Director at the University of Utah
Joseph L. Stanley (2002) has started his own firm - Line Pro Land Surveying - that serves southern Maine & New Hampshire
Sean Pierce (2010) is employed by Skansa Engr. & Surveying in Virginia Beach, VA courtesy of Larry Johnson, P.L.S. who is also employed there.
Alex Ogilvie (2009) is a Project Manager at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Maine. After graduating from college and serving in the Student Career Experience Program for three years, he immediately volunteered to assume CM duties for Dry Dock II Caisson and Sill Repair. He often dedicates long hours, including most of his weekends, to provide constant oversight. During his short tenure with us, he has become invaluable to our organization and ranks on the same playing field as our senior construction managers. (Contents copied from "In The Spotlight" Sep-Oct 2010.)
Roy J. Teal, P.L.S. (1980) is senior manager in the Geographic Information & Engineering Department at the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Tyler Rigazio (2010) is working at Eastern Topographics in Wolfeboro, NH doing photogrammetry based work. He reports that his work has been great.
Chris Michaud (2002) has been licensed as a land surveyor in New Jersey. Chris has previously been licensed in Maine. Chris reports the excellent education he received at the University of Maine made it all possible. Chris currently works for SGC.
Balkaran Samaroo "Sammy" (1997) is the "in-house surveyor" for Northern Maine working for the Maine Department of Transportation.
Chad Finnemore (2009) finished up a project in West Virginia working for Coler & Colantonio.He reports that his cousin, Brad Finnemore (2009), got married in 2010 and expects to be a father in early 2011. Brad works for SGC in Westbrook, Maine.
James Stevens (2008) is working for GM2 Associates based out of Glastonbury, CT and Concord, NH. He is working on the MPRP power line project in Maine. He is marking clearing limits and staking the access roads using RTK. He is currently living in Old Town and commuting to Newport.
Randy Loubier (2002) is a professional land surveyor working for Owen Haskell in Falmouth, Maine.
Lee Zimmer (1994) was just promoted to Resident Engineer of Greene County, NY for the State DOT. The position requires supervising about 40 people and 20 trucks in highway maintenance.
Tyler Durant (2008) has passed his professional licensing exam. He is currently working at Gartley & Dorksy Engineering and Surveying in
Camden, ME as a survey technician. He reports the education and support provided at UMO has made his career a success.
David Sheehan (2006) is working for Cianbro Corporation in Massachusetts doing site layout work. He passed his Maine professional land surveyor's exam in the Spring 2010.
Tara Hartson (Jeffers) (2007) is working for Herrick and Salsbury. She is the first graduate of the surveying engineering technology program to obtain her professional land surveyor's license. She and her husband are expecting a new baby in May 2011.
Nick Acheson (2010) Nick is working in New Jersey and Pennsylvania on a natural gas pipeline for SGC.
Fred Stohlman (2007) Fred Stohlman works at Harry Feldman, Inc. Feldman is investing into laser-scanning. The company was featured (http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_london_cty/high-tech-restoration-on-historic-whaler-). Fred became engaged to a UMaine graduate of the Early Childhood Education program last Febuary and he islooking forward to the wedding this September.
Justin McCoubrey (2007) is working for SGC in NY/NJ on a sixteen mile preliminary pipeline survey for Spectra Energy. The project involves putting a 30 inch pipeline through the streets of Staten Island up to Jersey City then a 6000 ft bore under
the Hudson river punching out in Manhattan. Justin is running one of the two to four person crews. He is working with some other UMaine grads including Nate Hart (2008), Dan Oakes (2010), and Jake Bartlett (2009). Justin is using the New York GPS VRS network since its more efficient and the surveyors don't have to worry about the RTK base growing legs and walking off.
James Normandeau (1990) is an engineering project manager at UNAVCO, 6350 Nautilus Drive, Boulder, CO 80301
Timothy E. 'Spyke' LeSiege (1988) has been the Aviation Engineer for the MaineDOT since November 2007. He is responsible for oversight for all construction and engineering projects that happen at over 30 public airports in Maine when they use FAA/MaineDOT funding. He has been at MaineDOT for 21 years. He is the current President of the United Volunteers of Maine, a non-profit organization created to run projects to raise funds to help other organizations and people.
Jeff Quackenbush (1993) is working in central New York state. He is doing mapping work of all kinds, working for two county planning agencies. He is currrently using GPS, LIDAR, ortho-imagery, total stations, photogrammetric measurements and probably some others. He is married to Lindi (a former student). She is teaching in the mapping sciences at SUNY-ESF in Syracuse. She is a professor and is doing well. They have two children — Eva is 3 and Tyler who has just arrived and is 4 months old.
Fred Nehring (2003) has started his own firm of Nehring Company, P.C. located in Boothbay, Maine.
Steve Gould (1993) is now the owner of Sackett & Brake Survey, Inc. located in Skowhegan, ME.
Justin Maloney (2002) has earned his MS in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Geospatial Information Engineering from UW-Madison in December of 2003. He recently passed the Massachusetts PLS exam. He is currently employed with Schofield Bros, Inc. in Framingham, Mass.
Justin McCoubrey (2007) works for SGC. He is working as a pipeline surveyor in Missouri/Illinois working on the REX East Natural Gas Pipeline. His work involves an RTK GPS doing as-builts for the pipeline construction. He reports the hunting is great! He has taken up bow hunting. After two weeks of practice he shot his first Doe. Later he shot a nice 8 point buck from 4 yards out!
Fred Stohlman (2007) works in Boston. He has been on a number of different sites, doing different types of surveying. In one case he used baseless RTK GPS for photo-control at Marina Bay in Quincy.
Ed Fortin (2006) recently appeared in the 2008 Aerial Mapping Supplement in the Professional Surveyor magazine.
Joseph Stanley is a project manager for Corner Post Land Surveying in southern Maine. It is one of the largest survey firms in central York County. He coordinates and manages a large variety of projects including boundary retracements, ground control for aerial photography, city-wide mapping of water and sewer systems, as well as many larger subdivision and condo projects.
Eeva Hedefine (2002) is a staff engineer at the James W. Sewall Company in Old Town, Maine. Her work is in the field of GIS. She is also doing a lot of ABGPS and IMU processing.
Chris Bailey (2003) is a Land Surveyor with the BLM. Chris has a new job in the Palm Springs, CA BLM office. He says the weather in southern California is a little different from Orono. They head for the Mountains when the 115 degree heat hits. The mountain weather is usually 40 degrees cooler. His assignment in Southern CA. consists of two Indian Reservations that need a current survey. The surveys of record date back to the original GLO Land Surveyors of the 1880's. He is finding marked stones and charred wooden posts. He has seen calls to gun barrels as boundary markers. The major difference between surveying in Northern CA and Southern CA is that they use GPS extensively in Southern California.
Suzannah Marie Hall (2002) is working at the Maine Department of Transportation.
Eva Hedefine (2002) is working at Sewall Company in GIS.
John Lloyd (1989) has recently left Sewall Company to start his own surveying firm in southern Maine.
Kevin Daniel (1995) is a helicopter pilot in the Maine National Guard. He has served in Iraq. Recently Kevin left Sewall Company to pursue employment with another surveying firm.
Hatim Gazzaz (2006) is working in the Red Sea doing 2-D Seismic Navigation. He previously spent four months in the desert training to do 2-D Seismic jobs.
Craig Ranson (2003) is living in Alaska and is now licensed as a professional land surveyor. He passed the April 2007 exam. He is enjoying himself having spent a couple of weeks in a jet boat and helicopter doing RTK cross-sections of the mighty Tanana River, among other services.
Brian Naberezny (2000) Brian has achieved professional licensure as a surveyor in Maine and is seeking registration in Pennsylvania. Brian and his wife are expecting a child at the end of August 2007. He is working on a Ph.D.
Ben Darrah (2003) passed his Maine PLS test and officially became Maine PLS #2399. He is working for the Maine DOT in Bangor and Augusta. He presently lives in Pittsfield with his wife and two young sons.
Gary Volta (1990) has joined the professionals at as SGC.
Congratulations to the following individuals for achieving the Dean's List in the Spring Semester 2006: Jacob Bartlett, Jeffrey Condon, Tyler Durant, Shane Enos, Hatim Gazzaz, Tara Jeffers, Joseph Labranche, Sean Lahann, Justin McCoubrey, Robert Miles, Jonathan Miller II, Isak Porter, Lori-Ann Stubbs, and Thomas Williams.
Jonathan Miller (2006) is an LSIT working for Fuss & O'Neill in Connecticut. His most interesting job was doing cross-sections of the Norwalk River, which happens to go under a old mill.
Scot Macdonald (1990) is now (has been since last August) the Director of Survey Engineering at SGC.
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