Dragoo, Alan R.

Alan R. Dragoo is a licensed surveyor in the State of Maryland who was employed for 27 years by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) in Laurel, Maryland. He was a geodetic project manager in charge of high-precision horizontal and vertical geodetic surveying projects using the global positioning system and classical methods in support of the WSSC Control Network, the Interagency GIS System and the deformation studies for three dams. Mr. Dragoo also worked for Trimble Navigation for eight years as a technical support representative in support of sales for the Northeast U.S. He also worked for Keystone Precision Instruments for eight years as the sales manager for land survey products for Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. He is currently employed by Maser Consulting at their Sterling, Virginia, office as their assistant Survey Department manager.
Mr. Dragoo worked with the National Geodetic Survey to survey the top of the Washington Monument. He was co-director for the completed survey on the top of the U.S. Capitol to determine its position and in the basement of the U.S. Capitol to locate the cornerstone set in 1792. He is a member and fellow of the National Society of Professional Surveyors; past president for the American Association for Geodetic Surveying (AAGS); past editor for the Geodetic Surveyor, a newsletter for AAGS; and National Society of Professional Surveyors director for the Maryland Society of Surveyors. Mr. Dragoo was MSS Surveyor of The Year for 1996 and Russell E. Lowman award recipient and Life Time Achievement award recipient in 2015. He was also director for the spring 1996 ASPRS/ACSM Baltimore Convention and director for the spring 1998 ACSM Baltimore Convention.
Mr. Dragoo has authored and co-authored articles and papers for Professional Surveyor magazine; for Surveying and Land Information System, a journal for the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping; and for society newsletters in the United States and Canada. He has also presented numerous technical sessions and workshops on matters related to geodetic surveying, State Plane Coordinates, least squares, compatibility of GPS with conventional measurements, Trimble Business Center software, and the sources of errors in conventional surveying.