Tom Sofka

Background

About Tom Sofka

Extensive experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams on staff assistance visits to Air Force installations worldwide. As DAF Utilities GeoBase Program Manager (GS-1370-13), serves as the subject matter expert on utilities linear segmentation, asset management principles, and utilities GIS applications. Interfaces with clients and customers at tactical, operational, and strategic, levels of the Air Force Enterprise. Manages the DAF Utilities GeoBase GIS Program and Utilities Enterprise Sustainment Management System Program, and creates and develops GIS products used throughout the USAF. Trains installation personnel in asset management principals and applications through installation visits and through presentations at the Air Force Institute of Technology. Calibrates installation civil engineering data collection and standardizes processes, and reviews requirements, data, and scope for projects above $5 million competitive for centralized funding. Federal employment is reinforced with prior experience as a contractor for the USAF and Navy, in municipal government, in private sector, and academically. Possesses a Master's of Science in GIS from Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor's of Science in Geomatics from Northern Michigan University. Enrolled in USAF Air War College with an expected completion date of August 2026.