Getting Started with Drones in Surveying for Site Development

Brooks Allwardt is an Enterprise Services Manager with DroneDeploy and specializes in helping organizations create effective drone operations systems to manage their program. His engineering background and extensive experience in operations has allowed him the opportunity to standardize operating procedures and manage drone pilots across all genres of customers. Brooks’s passion is in helping customers find all of the value opportunities of drones in a consistent, safe, and compliant manner. A Part 107 pilot himself, Brooks grew up in the midwest and first honed his drone flying skills making waterskiing and wakeboarding videos of his friends during the summertime.  When he is not flying Brooks enjoys reading, traveling, learning new geospatial information and is recognized in some small circles as a ping pong champion.

Sam works at Invenergy LLC, the world’s leading privately held sustainable energy company. Invenergy has developed more than 23,000 megawatts of power globally and currently has more than 145+ projects in operation or development. There, he works as an assistant project manager for Invenergy, since 2018 working on both solar and wind farms across the United States.Samalso heads up the drone initiative for the development and construction phases of the company working through the DroneDeploy platform.

Andrew Carey is the Business Development Director at CompassDrone, a division of CompassData.  Andrew specializes in drone program development and the integration of aerial data for geospatial applications.  An avid UAV technologist, Andrew leverages a GIS back ground to spread the gospel of accurate data for efficient decision making.