Hello from Edmonton Canada
Like others that have been in the game for some time, I never even thought about surveying as a career. I started off in an Architectural program at the local collage. The survey class just seemed to resonate with me so I switched and came out on the Dean’s List. I carried onto a 3rd year in Northern Ontario, which had a large emphasis on mining.
Guess where I ended up after graduation…….1km underground looking for gold!
From that point on has been a journey of 25 years that has taken me through Ontario, British Columbia and now Alberta. I have been involved in Legal, Industrial/Commercial Construction, Underground/Open Pit Mining, Project Management and now, I was given the great opportunity to start up a geomatics division for a company highly into R&D and tech with subsurface and UAV work.
I have seen so many changes over the years, from laying out or completing underground topo with a Wild T1A or T2 and a steel chain (for all those younger ones….that is a steel tape measure). The first time I used a GPS I thought I broke it as I lost fix and couldn’t figure out where the satellites went. Well the Gulf war started up and the US Government flipped the switch to off….lol.
I look forward to meeting new contacts and talking about the advancement in technology in the survey industry.
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