Keynote

The keynote speaker for 2011 Kentucky GIS Conference is Clint Brown.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Clint Brown

Director, Software Products

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)

Specific Responsibilities

Joined ESRI in 1983.  Responsible for managing all ESRI product releases in use today in thousands of organizations worldwide.  Responsible for product design, testing, documentation, and release of ESRI software products.  Manages a division of GIS analysts, programmers, writers, and test analysts who design, build, document, release, and maintain ESRI software.  Works closely with Software Development teams managed by Scott Morehouse, ESRI’s Chief Software Architect and Visionary, to direct this work.

Speaks on GIS implementation and concepts at numerous conferences and meetings annually.  Also has written extensively about GIS, contributing content to several books, white papers, and presentations on GIS, including significant contributions on many ESRI Press books, ArcNews, ESRI Training, and software user’s guides.

Also, helps to define GIS methods and key concepts.  Communicates and teaches how GIS is used for a multitude of applications.  Interested in ensuring that GIS fits into and provides a key information technology platform for a host of mission-critical applications.

Past Experience

1981 to 1983.  Before coming to ESRI, served as IT coordinator and biostatistician for National Wildlife Refuge planning for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Anchorage, Alaska.  Work there included coordinating the development of GIS methods and databases for master planning of sixteen national wildlife refuges covering more than 70 million acres of land and much of the coastal areas in Alaska.  Duties included training, coordination with federal and state agencies, land use planning, and implementing GIS technology for refuge planning mandated by the U.S. Congress. Implemented one of the first GIS-based planning systems.

1978 to 1981.  Served as a biostatistician with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Fort Collins, Colorado, working on procedures for the estimation of environmental impacts on fish and wildlife resources.  Helped to develop the Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP) used throughout the Service. HEP is a geographic accounting system for evaluating the impacts to fish and wildlife of alternative land use plans. Also worked with scientists on the development of habitat suitability and economic / human use models for fish and wildlife habitat characterization.

1976 to 1978.  As a graduate student assistant, performed research at the Institute of Statistics at Texas A&M University.  Applied statistical and computer programming techniques to environmental management and natural resource information.  Focused on stochastic modeling, simulation, and non-linear regression modeling.

Education

Course Work in Ecosystems Modeling, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1979-1980.

M.S. (Statistics and Computer Science) Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1978.

B.S. (Economics and Statistics) Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1975.

Personal Information

Lives in Redlands with his wife Charleen, also an ESRI employee.  Together they have four grown children and one grandson (so far) scattered across the U.S., who they adore.  Enjoys music and art.  Plays and sings in a small acoustic band named “Road to Ruin” with two fellow ESRI employees.