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High Turnout for the Department of Geography Fall Career Fair
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This fall’s Geography Career Fair, organized by undergraduate advisor Ronald Luna with the help of Jennifer Pomeroy, was hailed as a success due to good student turnout and representation from numerous area agencies, consulting firms, and local, county and federal governments, as well as GIS specialists. Of the companies’ and agencies’ recruiters that were present, eleven were UMD Geography alumni.
See picture below.
Here’s what our alumni career fair participants are up to:
- Danielle Hastings (’07) represented the
Army Corps of Engineers where she works in the topographic
engineering center in order to deliver geographic information to the
battlefield.
- Christian Dulin (’07) works in the GIS
department for Jacobs Civil Inc., an engineering company
specializing in transportation consulting.
- Matt Fowler (M.A. ’01) has been
working for Lockheed Martin for the last seven years as an engineer
building geospatial software.
- Tyrone Ligon (M.A. ’01) is working with
Pangia, developing GIS applications for the Department of Defense.
- Brian Lee (’01) works as a
recruiter for Greenhorne & O’Mara, an engineering consulting firm,
in the water resources GIS department.
- Roberto Ramirez (’00) works as a GIS
analyst for PBS&J managing his own load of work for the state of
Georgia, and doing floodplain studies in coordination with FEMA.
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- Dave Bonney (’05) works in the customer
support division of the remote sensing company GeoEye; a company
whose recent claim to fame is its development of the highest
resolution color satellite available to date.
- Chuck Gillies (M.A. ’89) has been
working as a high-level manager for Boeing for the last five years,
overseeing defense contracts for GIS-related projects.
- Stephen Sporik (’06) works for
Spatial Systems Associates, Inc. as a GIS technician and
cartographic consultant producing mapbooks for local emergency
response teams.
- Dr. Megan Lang (Ph.D ’05), who just
completed her doctoral dissertation on radar to monitor wetland
hydrology, is now working for the USDA agricultural research center
focusing on conservation practices and how they can be implemented
in order to improve water quality and the ability of wetlands to
provide ecosystem services.
- Dr. Cathy Carter (Ph.D ’05), Program
Manager for the Master in Professional Studies in Geospatial
Information Services, spoke to students and alumni alike about the
exciting new program.
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