
15+ years as an IBEW Journeyman Lineman — crew leadership across live-line and aviation work, and a knack for solving hard problems with innovation and engineering. Built GroundScope and the FATHOM engine to put serious geophysics in everyday crews' hands.
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45+ years in utility contracting. Former Owner and President of J.W. Didado, serving 26+ major utilities across the Northeast.
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Caltech Planetary Science PhD. Hyperspectral remote sensing on NASA's Mars Perseverance mission team — now applying spaceborne sensing discipline underground.
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Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. Managing Director at CBIZ, overseeing finance and reporting for SmartAuger and GroundScope.
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Sales leadership background in the GPR and locating industry, including management roles at Radiodetection (SPX) and Sensors & Software. Leads the hybrid direct and distributor go-to-market for GroundScope.
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A Journeyman Lineman with field leadership experience. Leads field data collection and collection innovation — the campaigns against specified targets that our models train on.
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Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. Previously at Matter Intelligence and NASA Ames/BAERI, working in advanced remote sensing, physics-informed machine learning, and geospatial AI. Now applies that work to reading radar.
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SmartAuger sponsors antenna research at The Ohio State University's ElectroScience Laboratory — one of the world's oldest and most decorated electromagnetics labs, advancing antenna and radar science since 1942.
Dr. Chi-Chih Chen and the ESL team assisted in the development of our fully polarimetric radar systems — and continue to support the antennas at the heart of every SmartAuger sensor.