1-Introduction

GISApplications.com domain is available for sale for a very reasonable price. Please contact info@gisapplications.com for information.

Welcome! This site is dedicated to sharing Sam Shamsi's professional information and Web sites with the professional community.

What I do:

Engineer: Civil & Environmental Engineer in Public Sector (full time day job)

Educator: Adjunct Professor in local universities (part time evening job)

Author: Writing technical papers, book chapters, and books (in my free time)

My mantra > People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care (John C. Maxwell)

A1 Applications LLC (www.A1Applications.com): This is our main business and website. Dr. Sam Shamsi founded A1 Applications LLC (A1A) in 2009. It is a Pittsburgh based civil and environmental engineering consulting firm with Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), Small Business Enterprise (SBE), and Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) certifications. At the present time, online continuing education is our main business.

My Two Cents

Sense of accomplishment helping needy people or communities is much more profound than the rewards of compensated employment.
Working hard is noble but workaholic fatigue is counterproductive and unhealthy. Exhausted workers cannot challenge status quo and think outside the box, or become innovators and inventors.

Professional Interests

Geographic Information System (GIS) applications in water, wastewater, and stormwater systems
Modeling of water, wastewater, stormwater, and river systems
Wet weather overflow facility plans for Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) and Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) systems
Green stormwater infrastructure
Stormwater management
Watershed approach to stormwater and wastewater management
Teaching and training
Software development

Work-life Balance

- Fishing, kite flying, volunteer work, international travel, and writing

This site was last updated on February 1, 2026.

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