Travis Salyer

Dedicated, quality driven professional, with more than five years of geospatial experience, including in-depth feature and terrain analysis and extraction within production environments. Proven, accomplished ability to analyze, interpret, integrate, exploit, extract, and verify features within 2-D and 3-D terrain imagery and the field, based on customer specifications.

GIS ANALYST II at Aerial Data Service, Inc. (2022-03 – Present)

• Performs moderate to complex feature extraction in ArcGIS through photogrammetric engineering methods utilizing mono/stereo image sources.
• Collects, analyzes and interprets geographic information using a variety of source material.

GEOSPATIAL ANALYST at Maxar Technologies (2021-10 – 2022-03)

• Data extraction and enrichment techniques using GIS software packages, satellite imagery, and a variety of standard and non-standard data sources in order to process, edit, and attribute vector and raster data.
• Data analysis, assessment, conversion, conflation, and integration.
• Generated data and cartographic mapping products conforming to customer specifications from GIS data layers.

GIS ANALYST at GeoData Corporation (2021-01 – 2021-06)

• Extraction and/or modification of relevant features and attributes based on analysis of digital imagery, program guidance, and customer specifications for Multinational Geospatial Co-Production Program (MGCP) contract.

GEOSPATIAL TECHNICIAN I at BAE Systems Inc. (2015-12 – 2020-08)

• Performed in-depth imagery and terrain analysis to produce geo-positioning solutions by performing triangulation procedures to generate point measurement of control points over remotely sensed imagery using a 3-D SOCET SET workstation.
• Created Controlled Image Base (CIB) products that involved database creation of grayscale images that are assembled into a mosaic of 1- or 5-meter resolutions.
• Used ArcGIS and various Arc extensions for moderately complex database builds.
• Assessed, integrated, manipulated, extracted, and analyzed digital imagery, geospatial databases, and various sources.

GIS FIELD TECHNICIAN at Davey Resource Group (2015-07 – 2015-11)

• Inspected and compiled data on power lines, electric utility and telecommunication equipment attached to utility poles in the right-of-way.
• Used a field computer linked with a GPS unit to record and verify location and data for each utility pole or underground electric utility feature.

Bachelor of Arts in Geography (Geospatial and Environmental Analysis); Minors in Appalachian Studies, Meteorology – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2015)