Tom Johnson and John Semmel

John Semmel joins Azavea as a Software Developer after many years in the insurance industry where he worked primarily on creating rating and quoting applications. His greatest hits in his previous position with Aetna were an enterprise census collection and analysis tool, as well as an application that enabled business people to enter, review, and test the rules that drove product selection in a major quotation application. At Azavea, he is working with the Law Enforcement team on an incident notification project for the Philadelphia Housing Authority and the second phase of ATF’s Firearms Analysis System. John is a native Philadelphian who counts cycling, writing, and finger-style guitar among his hobbies.

Tom Johnson joins Azavea as a Software Development Intern from Drexel University. He will be working with the Law Enforcement team on several of the projects they have underway, including building some features for HunchLab, Azavea’s geographic crime spike detection and early warning system. Currently in his 4th year of a 5-year program at Drexel, Tom is completing his third and final Co-Op experience here at Azavea. During his first two internships at PPL, a power utility company, he supported their engineering and design GIS by developing software enhancements and participating in design sessions for new software projects. Tom’s first exposure to GIS came in 2005 through his activities as a volunteer firefighter in his hometown outside of Allentown, PA. Tom enjoys music and reading, and the company of his family’s 2 black Labrador retrievers while on visits home from school.