Benjamin Hanzen

GIS Specialist

Sioux Falls

What do you find most rewarding about working with our clients? What I find most rewarding about working with our clients is the personable collaboration that’s possible when communicating with the kind of quality individuals who comprise our clientele. It’s these individuals who quickly become who I’m really working for, more than agencies or corporations. My motivation swings exponentially to go the extra mile when creating a product for a particular person or group of people that I’ve come to know and admire, as opposed to a faceless organization. These are the clients that Banner serves, and I’m proud to be among those helping to serve them.

If you didn’t have to sleep, what would you do with the extra time? Honestly, I’d make more maps. I genuinely love what I do, and I find a lot of fulfillment in synthesizing art and science to craft cartographic pieces.

What hobby would you get into if time and money weren’t an issue? Traveling. I would love to explore just about every corner of the world if time and money were not an issue.

What skill would you like to master? Coding. The way the world is turning, if you can master coding, you can become master of a wide swath of the technological landscape we’re collectively building. I’m confident coding will become a universal language of sorts to communicate almost anything to almost anyone in the not-too-distant future.