Consultant

Electronic Navigation, Precise Positioning, and Geographic Information Systems Research and Development

Résumé

EDUCATION

University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D. (Geography). Research in historical geography, environmental perception, and geographic information systems. Web-based learning publications in GPS, coordinate systems, geodetic datums, and map projections. Dissertation: Diversity in Descriptions of Destroyed Place: Greytown, Nicaragua.

University of Texas at Austin, Master of Arts (Geography). Research in computer cartography, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and Latin American studies. MA thesis: The Evolution and National Selection of Geodetic Datums.

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Bachelor of Arts (English).

EMPLOYMENT

Consultant, 1982 - Present. Electronic navigation and precise positioning research and development, computer-assisted cartography, and geographic information systems. Specializing in analysis and software design for signal processing, navigation, positioning, and position display for Loran-C and Global Positioning System receivers. GPS receiver designs for navigation and time and frequency applications. Contracts with clients in the United States, Canada, Hungary, Israel, and New Zealand. Projects include DGPS quality control software, GPS/GIS aerial mapping of television cable system RF leak levels, GPS receiver design, map projection, coordinate system, and geodetic datum transformation software. Field work includes Loran-C receiver testing in Europe and Scandinavia, GPS demonstrations and testing in Israel, GIS teaching in New Zealand, and GPS/GIS mapping projects in Nicaragua and Honduras.

Director of Research, Advanced Navigation, Inc., Rockville, MD, 1980 - 1982. Loran-C navigation avionics software development and Loran-C propagation research. Design of navigation processing software for ANI/ONI 7000, a multi-chain avionics Loran-C receiver. Studies of Loran-C skywave interference and signal reflections for the U.S. Coast Guard.

Engineer/Programmer, Navigation Division, Austron, Inc., Austin, TX, 1978 - 1980. Electronic navigation analysis and Loran-C software development. Austron Model 5000-C Loran-C Monitor software upgrades for the U. S. Coast Guard.

Consultant, 1972 - 1978. Electronic test, Loran-C analysis, interface design, technical writing, and computer programming.

United States Army Signal Corp, 1966-1969. Fixed Station Cryptographic Equipment Repair (32G2H). Instructor, Ft. Monmouth, NJ (1967-1968). Maintenance Chief, Communications Security, Danang Signal Battalion, Danang, Vietnam (1968-1969). Honorable Discharge as Specialist-5 (E-5) June, 1969.

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin. 2000 to present.

Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin. 2000 to present. Courses: Contemporary Cultural Geography, Computer Cartography, Introduction to Remote Sensing, The Geographer’s Craft, Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, Computer Applications in Geography, Geographic Information Science and Society, Geographic Information Science and GPS.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT. 2005-2006. Courses: Geography of Mexico and Central America, Seminar on Participatory Mapping of Indigenous Communities, Seminar in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, Fundamentals of Cartography.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT. 2000-2001. Courses: Geographic Information Systems, Seminar in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, Fundamentals of Cartography.

Assistant Instructor, Department of Geography University of Texas at Austin. 1995-1997. Courses: Computer Cartography, Maps and Map Interpretation.

PATENTS

Hancock, Lee and Peter H. Dana. U.S. Patent #6,473,692. System and Method for Locating Points of Interest. October 29, 2002.

Hancock, Lee and Peter H. Dana. U.S. Patent #6,356,834. Geographic Location Referencing System And Method. March 12, 2002.

Hancock, Lee and Peter H. Dana. U.S. Patent #6,339,744. Geographic Location Referencing System And Method. January 15, 2002.

Hancock, Lee, Peter H. Dana, and Scott D. Morrison. US Patent #6,295,502. Method of Identifying Geographical Location Using Hierarchical Grid Address That Includes a Predefined Alpha Code. September 25, 2001.

Hancock, Lee and Peter H. Dana. U.S. Patent #6,223,122. Geographic Location Referencing System And Method. April 24, 2001.

Hancock, Lee, Peter H. Dana, and Scott D. Morrison. U.S. Patent #6,202,023. Internet Based Geographic Location Referencing System and Method. March 13, 2001.

Hancock, Lee and Peter H. Dana. U.S. Patent #6,047,236. Geographic Location Referencing System And Method. April 4, 2000.

Hancock, Lee and Peter H. Dana. U.S. Patent #5,839,088. Geographic Location Referencing System and Method. November 11, 1998.

ORGANIZATIONS

The American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, The Association of American Geographers, The Institute of Navigation, The International Loran Association.

Revised 3/11/2007