2026 MSPS Highlighted Speakers

 

Jay Kay Seymour RLS PLS LLS

Jay Seymour is a nationally recognized “Surveyors’ Surveyor” with nearly six decades of experience, currently in his 57th year of practice and 49th year as a licensed professional land surveyor. Licensed in Kansas, Colorado, and California, he brings extensive field experience across ten states and has served as an expert witness in boundary disputes. His career spans private practice, civil engineering and surveying firms, and public-sector service, and for more than 40 years he has been a dedicated advocate and national speaker supporting the next generation of surveyors. A recipient of CLSA’s Distinguished Service Award and one of only two members in its 60-year history to also serve as Member of the Year and State President, Jay returns to Michigan to present two workshops on the Business Aspects of Land Surveying and the Art of Boundary Surveying.

 

 

 

Gary R. Kent, PS

Gary Kent is a Professional Surveyor with Schneider Geomatics in Indianapolis. After 37 years, he transitioned to part-time in 2020 and formed Meridian Land Consulting, LLC through which he provides training, consulting and expert witness services. Gary was Chair of the Joint ALTA/NSPS Workgroup responsible for the ALTA/NSPS Standards from 1995 to 2021 and continues to be actively involved with the standards. He has presented programs on boundaries, standards, risk management, easements, leadership, safety and other topics multiple times in all 50 states. Gary served on the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Surveyors from 2004 to 2025 and is a past-president of both ACSM and the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors.

 

 

 

Stanley French

Stan served as Chief Cadastral Surveyor for the Idaho State Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from 2004 to 2017, concluding a distinguished 40-year career in public land surveying. Beginning with the BLM in 1977, he specialized in dependent resurveys across the Midwest and Great Lakes states and later served as Project Surveyor in Missouri and Arkansas. He went on to manage the Geographic Coordinate Data Base (GCDB) for the BLM Wyoming State Office and later became Boundary Manager for the Mark Twain National Forest with the U.S. Forest Service in Missouri, where he is a licensed land surveyor. A graduate of the University of Missouri with a B.S. in Forest Management, Stan also completed graduate studies in Advanced Surveying and Boundary Law. Throughout his career, he was an instructor for numerous federal training programs, including CFedS, and frequently presented at national surveying conferences.