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Welcoming Ryan Howlett our latest Brand Ambassador who is covering the Alberta region, Canada! Let’s learn some more about him:
How did you get into surveying? I moved to western Canada during an oil boom looking for a job in Environmental Resources. With no formal training in surveying other than a passion for exploring and discovery I ended up in the passenger seat of someone who wanted to teach me in the field.
What are your plans as a Brand Ambassador? I discussed this with a co-worker who is also an ambassador in BC Canada, I would like to make 3 different presentations for students at different stages of their live.
1)For kids to align with this program geared for kids 6-8 years old to introduce them into survey and geomatics.
2)For youth between ages of 11-13 that touches on this program but focuses on how there are several things in their “back yard” that require survey and engineering
3)For teenagers 15-18 years old getting ready to hit go to postsecondary or the workforce and show them all of the different technical jobs in a variety of fields in geomatics and engineering that aligned with their interests.
Tell us a bit about what you do? I spent 15 years in the field and moved into the office to become a project manager for the past 5 years however, I still find ways to get back into the field when neat jobs pop up. While my main focus is on pipeline integrity projects, I dedicate a lot of my time blending different disciplines together in innovative ways to help our clients get projects done. All though there is a lot of neat tech out there to collect data in different ways, legal surveys and boundary retracements is still some of the most fascinating survey work I get to do.
Is there anything else you’d like to add? Last year I was featured with our company on an 8 episode series called “The Death Coast” on the History channel. It was a series about looking for shallow ship wrecks off the East Coast of Canada, and I knew we had the technology and the team that could deliver quality data to assist the divers and Production team.
It resulted in us finding the stern of the Chemeau off of Louisbourg, NS, but also geological and historical features that allowed the divers to find 4 new shipwrecks. As it was also a desire to get on a Show about surveying, It was more important to use our technology to help preserve these historical items for the damaging effects of climate change and hurricanes on these sites.
Surveying is this wonderful blend of history and discovery and I am always excited to see other people that are passionate about their discipline of geomatics and to learn why they love it….. it becomes contagious.