Dave Doyle joined the National Geodetic Survey in 1972 and held the position of chief geodetic surveyor at his retirement in January 2013.  He was responsible for the development, technical design and management of plans and programs that enhance the United States National Spatial Reference System.  Mr. Doyle began his career as a geodetic surveyor in the U.S. Army in 1967 and served on numerous survey campaigns until completion of his military service in 1970.  From 1970 until 1972, he worked for a private surveying company near Washington D.C. where he was responsible for completing boundary, topographic and engineering surveys while pursuing undergraduate studies in geodesy, cartography, and mathematics at the George Washington University.  During his time at NGS his experiences included all phases of geodetic triangulation, astronomic positioning, leveling, GPS data collection, data analysis, datum transformations, network adjustments, and data publication.  Mr. Doyle’s activities have included extensive efforts on the development and implementation of the North American Datum of 1983, the North American Vertical Datum of 1988, the Puerto Rico Vertical Datum of 2002, and the Virgin Islands Vertical Datum of 2009.  Mr. Doyle’s activities include 35 articles on geodesy and geodetic surveying in national and local surveying publications and he has conducted more than 400 workshops and seminars detailing the various aspects of geodesy and the National Spatial Reference System.

 

Mr. Doyle is a past president of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying, a Fellow member of the American Congress on Surveying and has served on the U.S. delegation to the International Federation of Surveyors. Mr. Doyle is also an active member of the American Association for Geodetic Surveying and the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia professional surveyors’ associations.