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 Jim Kompanek holds a B.A. in Anthropology and a Certificate in Historic Preservation from the University of Pittsburgh, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems from the Pennsylvania State University. Presently, Mr. Kompanek is the process of completing his Master’s in Geographic Information Systems from the Pennsylvania State University.
Mr. Kompanek has over seven years of cartographic, field, and laboratory experience in historic and prehistoric archaeology. Mr. Kompanek conducted or participated in numerous Phase I surveys; Phase II Evaluations; and Phase III Data Recovery projects. This experience includes a wide variety of fieldwork, laboratory, cartography, and historic research throughout the United States, including Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and New York. His experience also includes Eastern Europe, where he participated in the excavation and laboratory analysis of transitional Late Neolithic/Early Copper Age settlements along the Hungarian/Romanian border.
Mr. Kompanek is currently a CAD/GIS Specialist in CRAI’s West Virginia office. He is responsible for all aspects of cartography, from proposal and preparatory field mapping to final report cartography. This includes georeferencing historic maps, 3-D terrain and site rendering, viewshed analysis, interpolation of raster data, predictive modeling, spatial analysis, maintenance and creation of geodatabases, GPS/Total Station survey, as well as the general acquisition and integration of geospatial data. Prior to joining the West Virginia office, Mr. Kompanek was an Archaeological Field Supervisor in Kentucky, where his duties included authoring reports for and supervision of fieldwork for Phase I and II projects, and crew chief on Phase II and Phase III fieldwork.
Mr. Kompanek first joined CRAI in the winter of 2001.
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