Gary R. Kent

Gary Kent has served in a variety of leadership positions at Schneider Geomatics, a surveying and consulting engineering firm based in Indianapolis, since starting his employment there in 1983. He has been chair of the Joint American Land Title Association (ALTA)/National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) committee responsible for the ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey Standards since 1995. Gary is a past-president of both ACSM and the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors. From 1999-2006, he taught boundary law, legal descriptions, property surveying and land survey systems for Purdue University in Indianapolis where he received Excellence in Teaching and Outstanding Associate Faculty Awards. He has served on the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Surveyors since 2004 and is frequently sought as an expert witness in cases involving boundaries, easements and land surveying practice. Gary regularly presents programs across the country on a variety of survey-related topics, and he writes columns for The American Surveyor magazine and contributes to NSPS News and Views.