Gary Kent is in his 33rd year with The Schneider Corporation, a surveying, GIS and consulting engineering firm based in Indianapolis, and with offices in North Carolina, Florida, Texas and Iowa. He is chair of the NSPS committee on the ALTA/ACSM (now NSPS) Standards and is liaison to NSPS for the American Land Title Association.  He is a past-president of both ACSM and the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors.  From 1999-2006, Gary taught boundary law, legal descriptions, property surveying and land survey systems for Purdue University in Indianapolis where he received Excellence in Teaching and Outstanding Associate Faculty Awards. 

He is in his twelfth year on the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Surveyors and is frequently called as an expert witness in cases involving boundaries, easements and land surveying practice. Gary regularly presents programs across the country on surveying topics, and he writes columns for The American Surveyor magazine and for NSPS News and Views.