Ambassador Spotlight ‘Emily Bann’

Introducing Emily Bann our latest Brand Ambassador covering Lewiston & Clarkston areas of Idaho, USA!

How did you get into surveying? I at first went to school for engineering tech work, while doing that you have to do some survey in the mix. I loved it, I then went to Washington D.C. for the student conference and had an internship after my first year, I instantly fell in love with it, I then decided that is what I wanted to pursue! I then got offered a part-time position at my internship job, I am now full-time and still working towards my bachelor’s at ISU.

What are your plans as a Brand Ambassador? My plans are to get kids knowledgeable about geospatial careers, growing up here I know we didn’t get talked much about these careers it was only engineering, doctor, nurse, vet, etc. I want to spread the good word about our field, and I feel we may start the love for geospatial early on. My daughter already finds my job fascinating and always asks me when we pass construction sites if I worked on it. She’s 5 and is already interested in what I do! I feel also being a woman in the field may push other girls to not feel afraid to join into it as well.

Tell us a bit about what you do? I do anything to fieldwork to computer stuff. When we are first starting a project one of my tasks is to do the research to get deeds, records of survey, plats, and CP&F’s then in CADD cogo in the parcels and place search points for the field crews. For fieldwork we do topo, boundary, construction, storm drainage/basin verifications, and FEMS elevation certs. I work on civil 3D to create existing conditions maps, control maps, stake sheets, and figure out boundaries, I also work in Trimble business center to move our data to the OPUS solution. Even though I don’t get to do it at my current place of work I love to work in ArcGIS, it’s so much fun having to do mapping!
Besides working and school I have a daughter I get the joy of raising.