PrintMr. Steve Handwerk
- Mobile: (703) 727-1247 (The country code for the United States is 1)
- Office phone: ( 717) 761-4758 (The country code for the United States is 1)
- FAX: (814) 865-3191 (The country code for the United States is 1. Please send the Fax to my attention. Please note that a Fax is sent to the State College Campus, then forwarded to me as an email. If possible, send a scanned copy to me via email for faster turnaround.)
- Email: Please use the course e-mail system (see the Inbox tab in Canvas).
- Availability: Please call or e-mail me to schedule a time that is convenient for you.
Meet Steve Handwerk, instructor of GEOG 885 (1:41 minutes).
STEPHEN HANDWERK: I'm Steve Handwerk. I'm an associate teaching professor of geospatial intelligence here at Penn State. Thanks for stopping by. Let me tell you a little bit about myself. First of all, I love geography. I always have. I loved it since I was a little boy through grade school. I studied geography at Penn State, and I spent 33 years at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency before retiring and coming to Penn State. Geography and geospatial intelligence is so important to our lives because, as General Jim Clapper, former director of National Intelligence and director of NGA, once said, everything happens somewhere. Certainly, along with geography, I love my family. Here you'll see my wife and I on vacation in Hawaii, and then you see my son and his family. They live down in Northern Virginia, and two of our six grandchildren live there. Molly and I like to travel, and when we do, we like to collect some indigenous art. This is from a Pueblo tribe down in New Mexico-- a wedding vase. And over here we have an Aboriginal wombat from Australia. I'm also a lover of trains-- the real ones and the model ones. Here is a model that runs around our Christmas tree every year. It is of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. And I have that in my blood because my great-grandfather spent a whole career working for Lehigh Valley between New York and Buffalo. Wait. Did I mention that I went to Penn State, and I bleed blue and white? We are!
David Jimenez
- Mobile: (575) 618-7989 (The country code for the United States is 1).
- Email: Please use the course e-mail system - see the Inbox tab in Canvas (in an emergency my PSU email is dxj13@psu.edu).
- Availability: Please call or e-mail me to schedule a time that is convenient for you. Please note I am located in the Mountain Standard Time zone.
David Jimenez has more than 21 years of experience with federal law enforcement intelligence (Homeland Security Investigations and U.S. Border Patrol) and is currently serving as a Strategic Intelligence Analyst with the West Texas HIDTA in El Paso, Texas. He has instructed GEOG 885: Advanced Analytic Methods for Geospatial Intelligence. He is a Criminal Intelligence Certified Analyst with the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts and conferred the Intelligence Fundamentals Professional Certification with DoD. He also served as an intelligence professional with the United States Air Force and retired after 24 years of service in 1994.
Meet David Jimenez, instructor of GEOG 885 (0:51 minutes).
Hello everyone. I'm David Jimenez, an adjunct instructor with the geospatial program here at Penn State and located in the southwest town of El Paso. A little bit about me. I'm retired from the United States Air Force, having served 24 years as an intelligence analyst. I then had another career in intelligence for 22 years with federal law enforcement, and then finally in my third career with a counter-drug program called the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. I have a passion for all things intelligence with the nexus to analysis and structured methods in the courses that I instruct. I'm an amateur photographer who hasn't quite figured out all the bells and whistles of a nice camera that I have, but I'm working on it. Looking forward to seeing you in class!
Greg Thomas
Greg Thomas was in the law enforcement intelligence analysis field for the 26 years before coming to Penn State. Greg received his Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Sociology from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Public Administration from the Pennsylvania State University, and a PhD in Administration and Leadership Studies PhD from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation work focused on the role of state and local law enforcement in homeland security.
Greg is a lifetime Certified Criminal Analyst through the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts. He has published articles relating to organized crime, criminal intelligence analysis, and terrorism. In addition to teaching at Penn State, Greg has provided instruction for law enforcement intelligence analysts and is an adjunct instructor at Central Pennsylvania College, teaching criminal intelligence analysis courses.
Greg's framework for teaching this course is from an analytical perspective. He intends to show how geospatial intelligence can be used as a technique for analyzing data.
Meet Greg Thomas, instructor of GEOG 885 (0:43 minutes).
Hello, my name is Greg Thomas. I'm the Assistant Director for Geospatial Intelligence programs at Penn State, and I teach several fundamental and advanced courses on topic of geospatial intelligence. My background is in intelligence and analysis in the law enforcement field, and I bring that experience to the program and the courses I teach. In my classes I stress the analysis of human activity over place and time, to provide a decision advantage or to solve a problem, and I show how geospatial intelligence as a discipline is used for analyzing data in various fields of study. I look forward to exploring geospatial intelligence analysis further with you, and hope you enjoy the course!