Dale began his career in the Air Force as a photo interpreter. Later, he worked at a mapping company, where he created traditional maps and converted them into digital formats. From 1980 to 2020, Dale was employed in the GIS sector. In 2021, he took on the role of field representative with a focus on landfills. Utilizing his GIS experience, he enhanced landfill management by implementing a digital documentation system. Since 1990, he has been using Arc/INFO COGO and ArcEdit for various large-scale spatial data delineation projects. His skills encompass digitizing, heads-up digitizing, COGO, photo interpretation, data migration, data conversion, and AML programming.