David Smith

Current

CTO / VP / Director of Geospatial Technology at Synergist Technology Group, Inc.
State Registration Board for Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists at Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Past

Project Engineer at Pennoni Associates, Inc.
Senior Designer at CECO Associates, Inc.
Engineering Designer at Reilly Associates, Inc.

Surveying and Mapping Technician at Victor E. Orben
GIS Consultant at City of Kuala Lumpur

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Education

Pennsylvania State University

Connections

276 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

David Smith’s Summary

Professional experience: Geographer; Planner; Geospatial Applications Developer; Geospatial Architect; Enterprise Architect, Web2.0 Evangelist; Licensed Professional Land Surveyor and Licensed Professional Engineer; GIS Practitioner.

Goals: Multidisciplinary solutions... I pursue innovative ways to help communities and the nation toward stewardship and sustainability.

David Smith’s Specialties:

Geospatial applications development, Business development for a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) working in the Federal Contracting Arena

David Smith’s Experience

CTO / VP / Director of Geospatial Technology

Synergist Technology Group, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

2004 — Present (5 years )

* Geospatial Architect for $700M USEPA Information Technology Support and Environmental Systems Engineering (ITS-ESE) Contract

* Geospatial Architect for USEPA Oracle Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)

* Geospatial Applications Development for USEPA ITS-BISS Contract

* Geospatial Applications Development for Administrative Office of the US Courts

* Supporting integration of geospatial technologies such as ESRI ArcIMS, ArcGIS Server, Oracle Spatial, PostGIS, GeoServer, MS Virtual Earth, Google Earth, Google Maps and other platforms with enterprise systems to include Oracle Portal, Lotus Domino/Notes, Oracle BI EE, BusinessObjects XI R2 Web Intelligence and Xcelsius 2008, Oracle CoreID Identity and Access Management, MetaCarta GTS, and others.

* Support and Integration for Web2.0 Technologies, to include Wikis (e.g. MediaWiki), RSS and GeoRSS, AJAX integration, REST, JSON and other technologies.
State Registration Board for Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

(Civil Engineering industry)

December 2003 — Present (6 years )

Board Chair, 2006-2008
Board Vice Chair 2004-2006
Project Engineer

Pennoni Associates, Inc.

(Privately Held; Civil Engineering industry)

2000 — 2003 (3 years )

- Transportation Engineering - Numerous Design projects for State and Federal Highways and Interstates, e.g. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), Massachussetts Department of Highways (MASSHighways), Vermont Agency of Transportation (VAOT), Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT)
- Transportation and Traffic Analysis and Studies (HCS, Synchro and other packages)
- Intermodal Transit
- Interpretive Trails
- GPS
- GIS
Senior Designer

CECO Associates, Inc.

(Civil Engineering industry)

1994 — 2000 (6 years )

* Engineering Design, CAD and GIS Manager

- Representative GIS Work: Land Use Analysis (GIS) for 50,000 Acres in Northeastern Pennsylvania - Natural Heritage, Slope Analysis, Soils, Fisheries, Wetlands and other aspects
- Custom development of GIS reprojection algorithms, vector generalization algorithms, data extraction and transform routines, and spatial indexing
- Development of Engineering and CAD utilities, e.g. BOM software for PennDOT Tabulation and Summary
- Implemented LAN to support 35-node engineering office
- Engineering Design: Subdivision and Land Development, Commercial Site Engineering, Roadway Design, Stormwater Management, Erosion and Sedimentation Control, Dam Breach Analysis
- Design Lead for Site Engineering for numerous Emissions Testing Facilities
Engineering Designer

Reilly Associates, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

1990 — 1994 (4 years )

*Engineering Design, CAD and LAN Manager:

- Topographic and Cadastral Mapping
- Digital Terrain Modeling
- Subdivision and Land Development
- Roadway Design
- Bridge Design
- Stormwater Management and Erosion and Sedimentation Control
- Hydrology and Hydraulics
- Highway Occupancy Permits
- Implemented LAN and Engineering/CAD Workgroup Server
- CAD Customization: AutoCAD/PacSoft/DCA and others
- Software development: e.g. custom plot queuing and spooling for HP 7600 Electrostatic Plotter; Digitizer management software for Numonics Digitizer
Surveying and Mapping Technician

Victor E. Orben

(Computer Software industry)

1985 — 1990 (5 years )

- Topographic and Cadastral Mapping
- Coordinate Geometry
- Subdivision and Land Development
- Roadway Design
- Stormwater Management and Erosion and Sedimentation Control
- Highway Occupancy Permits
- Developed software for design of on-lot pressure-dosed elevated sand mounds for residential wastewater
- Developed numerous custom CAD routines in AutoLISP for AutoCAD, DCA, AutoMAP
GIS Consultant

City of Kuala Lumpur

(Computer Software industry)

1988 — 1989 (1 year )

- Feasibility Studies for Geographic Information System (GIS)
- Requirements Analysis and Specification (GIS)
- Examination of Use Cases for City of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Valley, Malaysia
- Implementation Support

David Smith’s Education

Pennsylvania State University

1985 — 1989

Additional Information

David Smith’s Websites:

David Smith’s Interests:

geospatial technology, GIS, environment, mapping, hiking, history, archaeology

David Smith’s Groups:

State Registration Board for Engineers Land Surveyors and Geologists, American Society of Highway Engineers, Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors, .NET Valley, Scranton Historic Architecture Review Board, USEPA GIS Workgroup, PAMAGIC, GeoBloggers, Engineers Without Borders, Family, POB, NoTIE