This issue features a Q&A with half of our Project Management team, Tom Krohn and Dick Kennedy. Stay tuned for our next issue to read the responses from Van O’Brien and Mark Kemper!
Dick Kennedy
Tom Krohn
When did you begin working at Sidwell, and what other roles have you had besides Project Manager?
- Dick Kennedy: January, 1992. Also worked as a Compiler/Checker in Mapping Services and as a Client Training Specialist.
- Tom Krohn: February 2003. I started as a GIS Compiler and Land Records Specialist. I moved to our GPS and Survey Solutions Department in 2010 as an Account Manager, and have since moved into Project Management.
What is your favorite part of being a Project Manager?
- Dick: Meeting our clients is fun, working with all departments within Sidwell is an added bonus.
- Tom: The interaction with our clients. It is always rewarding to be a part of helping our clients achieve the goals of a project, better understand their GIS, and to add efficiencies to their workflows.
When you’re not at Sidwell what are you most likely doing?
- Dick: Bicycling, painting, or hanging with my daughter/grandkids
- Tom: When not at Sidwell, I most certainly have the attention of my children. When they are tucked into bed, I am likely playing my guitar or enjoying some form of music.
What’s your favorite movie?
- Dick: Any Humphrey Bogart movie.
- Tom: No Country for Old Men
What would I find in your refrigerator right now?
- Tom: Milk! Gallons of milk…which will last about two days in our house.
If you could trade places with any other person for a week, famous or not famous, living or dead, real or fictional, with whom would it be?
- Dick: Huckleberry Finn
Favorite sport?
- Dick: Baseball
- Tom: Golf
Favorite meal?
- Dick: Rice and beans
- Tom: Lasagna – My Mother’s, of course
What’s on your iPod?
- Dick: A shuffle brought up: Sons of the Pioneers, Luka Bloom, John Mellencamp
- Tom: My children’s fingerprints