Summary
Steve Benner is a regional sales leader and geospatial practitioner with 13+ years in local government solutions and more than three decades of experience across photogrammetry, aerial survey operations, and GIS. At Trimble he advises utilities and municipalities in the Mid-Atlantic on asset lifecycle management, building on prior success doubling county clients at EagleView and founding a profitable aerial-survey company. He uniquely combines commercial pilot experience—4,000 flight hours, a third of them on LiDAR and imagery missions—with hands-on program and project management to translate complex technical workflows into practical procurement and operational outcomes. Known for growing teams and turning underperforming units profitable, he bridges technical depth in remote sensing with business development and client-facing strategy. Based in State College, PA, he leverages a Penn State Earth Science background to help local governments extract actionable value from spatial data.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Earth Science, concentration in cartography and remote sensing, BS, Earth Science, concentration in cartography and remote sensing at Penn State University