Keynote Speaker

Monday, October 20
11:00 a.m.–noon

Clint Brown, Director, Software Products, ESRI

Clint Brown joined ESRI in 1983. He manages all ESRI product releases in use today in thousands of organizations worldwide. He is responsible for product design, testing, documentation, and release of ESRI software products. Mr. Brown manages a division of GIS analysts, programmers, writers, and test analysts who design, build, document, release, and maintain ESRI software. He works closely with Software Development teams managed by Scott Morehouse, ESRI's Chief Software Architect and Visionary, to direct this work.

Mr. Brown speaks on GIS implementation and concepts at numerous conferences and meetings annually. He has also written extensively about GIS, contributing content to several books, white papers, and presentations on GIS, including significant contributions to many ESRI Press books, ArcNews, ESRI Training, and software user guides.

Mr. Brown also helps to define GIS methods and key concepts. He communicates and teaches how GIS is used for a multitude of applications and is 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, Mr. Brown served as IT coordinator and biostatistician for National Wildlife Refuge planning for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Anchorage, Alaska. His work there included coordinating the development of GIS methods and databases for master planning of 16 national wildlife refuges covering more than 70 million acres of land and much of the coastal areas in Alaska. His duties included training, coordinating with federal and state agencies, land use planning, and implementing GIS technology for refuge planning mandated by the U.S. Congress. Mr. Brown implemented one of the first GIS-based planning systems.

1978 to 1981—He 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. He 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. He 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, Mr. Brown performed research at the Institute of Statistics at Texas A&M University. He applied statistical and computer programming techniques to environmental management and natural resource information and focused on stochastic modeling, simulation, and non-linear regression modeling.

Education

• Course Work in Ecosystems Modeling at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1979-1980
• M.S., Statistics and Computer Science from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1978
• B.S., Economics and Statistics from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1975

Mr. Brown lives in Redlands, California with his wife Charleen, also an ESRI employee. Together they have four grown children and one grandson (so far) scattered across the U.S., whom they adore. Mr. Brown enjoys music and art. He plays and sings in a small acoustic band named "Road to Ruin" with two fellow ESRI employees.