
Biography
Dennis serves as a consultant and coach to large and small businesses, education, industry, not-for-profit, government, and community service organizations. He worked for thirteen years at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), including as the global account manager of its largest corporate end-user customer, as manager of sales & marketing for total quality management, and as international strategic marketing director of office document systems for the company. Over the past twenty years, he has served as an organizational change consultant, as president and chief operating officer of a technology-leading digital-print book manufacturer, and as a strategic marketing consultant with a recognized geospatial information company in Lancaster, PA. Dennis has consulted on many GIS and IT projects at state, regional, county, and local government levels in Pennsylvania. He has been involved in geospatial requirements analysis, strategic planning, project management, project scoping, customer relationship management, business development, marketing, and organizational consulting involving all aspects of geospatial application development and implementation. He has been a research contributor to a Harrisburg-based think tank for economic and workforce development projects funded by the Appalachian Regional Commission, Brookings Institution, Federal Mediation and Consultation Service, William Penn Foundation, and National GovernorsO Association. He is a member of the Academy of Management and Sigma Xi.
Courses
Course Programs
Keywords/Topics
- ach
- advanced analytic methods
- analysis of competing hypotheses
- analytic thinking
- bias
- business intelligence
- business location intelligence
- community analysis
- competitive intelligence
- critical geospatial thinking
- critical thinking
- demographics
- esri business analyst online
- geography analysis
- geography intelligence
- geography spaces
- geoint
- geoint analysis
- geoint intelligence
- geospatial analysis
- geospatial analytic methods
- geospatial bias
- geospatial intelligence
- geospatial intelligence analysis
- geospatial intelligence for business
- geospatial market segmentation
- geospatial sensemaking
- geospatial thinking
- gis&t analysis
- intelligence
- intelligence analysis
- intelligence case studies
- location advantage
- location intelligence
- location market segmentation
- location selection
- market advantage
- market segmentation
- psychographics
- sensemaking
- sgam
- site selection
- structured analytic techniques
- structured geospatial analytic methods
Course Spotlight
Cartography and Visualization (GEOG 486) covers design principles and techniques for creating maps with contemporary mapping tools. Students will be introduced to future-focused application topics such as augmented and virtual reality, mapping with multivariate glyphs, the visual depiction of uncertainty, interactive geovisualization, and (geo)visual analytics, and decision-making with maps and mapping products. Visit the course.
Faculty Spotlight
Dr. Fritz Kessler has taught various online courses in the Master's of Geographic Information Systems at Penn State since 2007. He's also an avid cyclist and musician. Learn more about Dr. Kessler, see what he has to say about online education, and hear him play a tune on the mandolin.