Owner, Urban Terrain LLC, a land surveying company in ApolloMs. Hopkins is a professional land surveyor licensed in both Pennsylvania and New York. Her experience has been focused on providing permitting and surveying services for multiple energy clients. She works directly with land managers, regulatory specialists, geologists, and drilling engineers to complete permitting, boundary surveys, construction layout and as-built record plans. She also looks out for the best interests of surface and mineral right owners. Ms. Hopkins also has an extensive background in commercial development, ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys and as an expert witness. She was honored by the Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors as the Surveyor of the Year at the Society’s annual conference in Hershey, PA in January 2016. Ms. Hopkins is a member of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Pittsburgh chapter and the Women’s Business Network, Murrysville chapter.

Mr. Horneman, PLS/GISP, has been working in the survey/geospatial field since joining the U.S. Army Reserves in 1984 as a geodetic surveyor. He attended the Defense Mapping School (now the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) in Fort Belvoir for geodetic surveying and received continuing education at the U.S. Army Professional Development Institute, the Community College of the Air Force, and various conferences, acquiring more than 400 continuing education credits in surveying, mapping, geology, GIS, and engineering. Mr. Horneman’s experience over the past 40 years includes surface and underground mining surveying, design and permitting, boundary and topographic surveys, ALTA surveys, subdivisions, construction surveying, GIS oversight, oil and gas wells and pipelines, and consulting. He has worked with several small to large private engineering and survey firms, as well as the U.S. Government (U.S. Army Reserves, U.S. Air Force Reserves, and as a civilian with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers). Mr. Horneman retired from the Reserves as a Master Sergeant with 24 years of service. He currently works for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, as the Deputy Chief of Real Estate/Chief of the Geospatial Branch for cadastral projects and GIS base mapping. Mr. Horneman is also managing his own firm, Horneman Surveying, LLC. He has been teaching professional classes for the last 15 years in various continuing education venues, including Half Moon Education, PSLS, and WVSPS. Mr. Horneman is licensed as a Professional Land Surveyor in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New York, and is also a GIS Professional. He is a past president of the PSLS Southwest Chapter and has served as the PADEP‐PSLS Liaison Committee chair and on the Geospatial Committee and Legislative Committee. Mr. Horneman resides in Natrona Heights, PA, with his wife Sharon of 32 years, living near his four grown sons (two which are surveyors) and two grandchildren.

Duquesne Light CompanyMr. Hummel has been doing business for more than 33 years in Florida and Pennsylvania, which has helped him develop a broad knowledge of surveying. He has a diverse background in site development, including platting and construction layout along with route surveying, boundary surveying, topographic surveying, hydrographic surveying, global positioning, and oil industry surveying. Mr. Hummel is the Supervisor of Surveying and Right-of-Way for Duquesne Light in Pittsburgh.

Frank Kosir, Jr. is an attorney with Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP. Mr. Kosir has significant civil litigation and general practice experience in all areas of real property law including real estate tax assessment appeals, real estate sales, purchase, and leasing, oil and gas lease negotiations, real estate title defense and claims, landlord-tenant actions, quiet title actions, eminent domain actions, zoning and land use actions, boundary line disputes and Covid-19 related real estate issues. Prior to entering the practice of law, he acquired extensive experience in all facets of real estate development, sales, construction, and leasing with his family’s home construction company, which has operated for more than sixty years. Mr. Kosir’s knowledge of the construction, planning, and business aspects of real estate provide him with a unique understanding that he utilizes in assisting clients. He writes quarterly real estate update columns in The Legal Intelligencer and frequently lectures at continuing legal education programs.  

Principal, Survey Department Manager at Senate Engineering Company, PittsburghMr. Siefers is a third-generation professional land surveyor with more than 45 years of experience in the public and private sectors. He is a member of the National Society of Professional Surveyors and the Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors. Mr. Siefers is a past chapter president and current treasurer of the Southwest Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors and presently represents the Southwest Chapter as a state director. Mr. Siefers also chairs the Geospatial Committee of the Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors.