Defining Boundaries with Peta Cox

This week I speak to Taylor Handschuh. Known as The Map Lady, Tay comes from New Jersey, just outside of New York. She is not a surveyor but loves all things spatial, data and technology. Tay is the Founder &  Director of Geospatial Technology Implementations. She holds a Bachelor and Masters and was awarded Summa Cum Laude and won an award for her AGIC (Arizona Geographic Information Cou...

Graham is a surveyor who has been in the industry for 49 years and now works for 12D solutions in Software product Sales and support. He has spent his career working as a Project Surveyor and regional sales manager at Leica before moving to 12D. Graham was born in Sydney & grew up in the Sutherland Shire. As a kid & growing up, Graham wanted to be a surfer, sailor and a surveyor.  He began his car...

Lieven is a surveyor from Belgium who runs his own business and specialises in land, construction and scanning. Born in Geel in Belgium and growing up in Tessenderlo, Lieven wanted to be a Lego designer. Although as you may have guessed it, Lieven is a luntmeter also known as surveyor, he is also a CEO, CFO, head of it, and rod man at LSBbvba. Man of all trades you could say. He began his career a...

A catch up with influential women within our industry discussing how we can move forward & make change, one small step at a time. Education, unconscious bias, diversity, inclusion and how we can all work together to better our industry. Supporting Links below:  Creating effective workplaces where all people can thrive:  https://sssi.org.au/events-awards/e-cpd/sss-dln Women+ in Geospa...

Andrew Conolly is a second generation surveyor working for the family business. Knowing he was always going to be working in the construction industry in some form or another as he has been building and making things since he was a toddler while also helping his dad with residential surveys from the age of 13.  His official title is Graduate Surveyor, graduating from the University of Newcastle in...

Darren Booth is a registered land surveyor and director at Hopkins Consultants. Also the President of the Country Surveyors Association. He has been in the industry for over 30 years. Hailing from the mid north coast of NSW, Darren grew up in Port Macquarie. He attended Newcastle University & began his career during Uni days working in Port Macquarie. Spending 10 years at Lithgow before return...

This week is a little different from the normal listening program. It is a Q&A held by Michael Hatton from TSS. I’ve been a little slack well sick and haven't been able to complete my normal interviews. I put it out there to my Instagram family & previous guests to ask me anything & this is what we have come up with. A short question & answer to tease your ears until my next interview. A little bi...

Thomas Casey is a Registered Land Surveyor and owner of Casey Surveying and Design in Parkes NSW. Better known as Tom, TC to his good friends & colleagues & uncle Bot to his family Tom was born in Sydney and he spent his younger years between Sydney, Bathurst & the Central Coast. My initial question to Tom was where he had grown up & his reply was that he’s not entirely sure that he has grown up…...

Thomas Hebert isn’t a surveyor, he doesn’t work in our industry, but does use our technology for his latest venture. He actually comes from an insurance background of 20 years. Now why do I have this guest on my show you may be thinking? Thomas is a palaeontologist from Wisconsin. He is the Founder and Director of Earth Sciences Foundation Inc. a not for profit organisation. Recently a guest on Th...

Michael Hatton, also known as Mick was born in Northern Territories Tennant Creek, he has spent his years traveling Australia & the world. From Darwin, to Wagga, England, Perth, & Sydney to name a few. When his soccer career died, he turned to surveying and has been in the Surveying Industry for 26 years while for the past nearly 18 years he has been the Director of TSS - Total Survey Solu...

In final celebrations of International Womens Day 2022. I interview Tracy El-Asmar from Intrax. Tracy is the Survey Operations Manager for VIC. A non surveyor, Tracy has the passion to advocate for our industry & I am proud to call her my friend. Born in Essendon Victoria which makes her a Bombers  supporter, she grew up in Taylors lake in Melbourne's West. Growing up Tracy had aspirations of bein...

This one has been a long time in organizing due to the busy nature of my friend the one & only Geospatial Marketer, Elaine Ball. She is a hard woman to hold down for more than 5 min. Born in the cathedral city of Wakefield known for its Corn, coal & textiles, Elaine spent time growing up in Scotland & Singapore. Known best for her marketing & get kids into survey initiatives, Elain...

Kaja is an offshore surveyor working for iSurvey. She began her career in Surveying in 2015 as a land surveyor before moving into the offshore abt 6 months ago. Kaja is a great advocate for all things surveying, she promotes the industry whilst also sharing her perspective of life & career as a woman in a male dominated industry through her social media sites. She likes to push the boundaries both...

Dr Jane Cooke hails from Tonbridge, Kent, a small town approximately an hours drive south East of London England, but now lives in Victoria Australia where she is the National Technical support and training manager for the geospatial division at CR Kennedy. She wanted to be a town planner, but began her career in the geospatial industry by completing her degree in Environmental Science and working...

Braydon Smith, who is also known to his mates as CharlieB, is a Surveyor by mentoring & experience, who has over 10 years of experience in the industry. He is a Queensland boy, born & bred who loves the outdoors. He is a country boy at heart who enjoys his time away from the city near the ocean or the trees. He is currently working at Vision Surveys completing all types of surveys from det...

Luke Woodyard hails from Kentucky USA. He is a Party Chief & Scanning Specialist at QK4. Born in Lexington & growing up in Frankfort, Kentucky. He started his career as a Construction inspector while still in school but after one survey class he fell in love with Surveying, moved departments to the survey section & hasn’t looked back. With only a few years under his belt, you can hear the love for...

So the tables have turned & I have one third of the Geoholic’s joining me today. Friend of mine, Mr Kent Groh. One of the most passionate surveyors I know, Podcaster extraordinaire & all round advocate for anything & everything surveying…for those that don’t know Kent, he is a Licenced surveyor, who holds a degree in Architecture and is the Geomatics/Survey Manager at ALTA SOUTHWEST in...

Richard Cullen was born in New Zealand. He moved over to Australia as a teen & has made a career for himself in the Hydrographic community. Now living Wollongong just south of Sydney in Australia, he has been in the industry for 25 years and began his career in the Spatial Sciences sector with the Royal Australian Navy. You could say he has had a few careers as he was a Naval Officer before moving...

Claire began her career in in Surveying in Westport, New Zealand. She has been working in the industry for 9 years.  A tomboy at heart, Claire toyed with the idea of being a builder, a farmer or more seriously joining the Air Force.   She was a finalist in the NZ Spatial Excellence Awards 2018 for Women's Leadership & won the Young Professional and People's Choice award & also th...

Turning right instead of left was the critical point in Michaels surveying career. Michael is a now retired Registered Surveyor and Town Planner with a wealth of experience gained as a private consultant practicing throughout New South Wales, particularly the North Coast region, for over 40 years.  He has considerable experience in the land development process, taking many projects from conce...

Turning right instead of left was the critical point in Michaels surveying career. Michael is a now retired Registered Surveyor and Town Planner with a wealth of experience gained as a private consultant practising throughout New South Wales, particularly the North Coast region, for over 40 years.  He has considerable experience in the land development process, taking many projects from conce...

Due to poor NBN connection, the audio from this podcast is occasionally at times substandard. I apologies for the poor connection.  You will still enjoy the stories Bruce has to tell. Born in Melbourne, to ten pound pom parents,  Bruce moved around during his younger years across Australia & PNG. His aspirations growing up were to be a pilot. Due to colour blindness, this was an unattainable goal....

The daughter of teachers, Kellie spent her first few years at West Wylong before moving to the central coast where she made her home. Her aspirations growing up and how she began her studies at Newcastle University was in the Education Faculty studying to be a high school teacher. In a chance meeting with John Fryer on the football field, Kellie's career had a massive 90 degree turn into surveying...

Timothy Burch is a surveyor from the Chicago area. He is the Director of Survey for SPACECO, Inc., Rosemont, Illinois. With over 30 years’ experience, he has been a licensed Professional Land Surveyor in Illinois since 1997. A second-generation surveyor, he is the son of a military man, where they traveled throughout the country before returning to their home state. His father, a member of the air...

Defining Boundaries has reached its 1 year celebrations starting next week. Here is my look back over the year that was. A mashup of all the chats so far. Next week stay tuned for Timothy Burch. Guests this year include: Rodney Olson https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodney-olsen/ Narelle Underwood https://www.linkedin.com/in/narelleunderwood/ Brian Hammonds https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-hammonds-8a...