Sharon Hawkins

ARDOT

Sharon graduated from the University of Central Arkansas’ Geography program in 1999, and for the past 26 years, she has worked in the GIS and Mapping Section at ARDOT where she currently serves as Section Head.  Sharon and her team provide the Department and the public with city, county, and statewide maps, spatial databases such as the all public roads dataset, and methodologies and applications to collect, view, and analyze spatial information. Her favorite aspect of the job is cartography, and she’s excited to talk to the surveying community about the past, present, and future of maps and spatial data at ARDOT.