Mr. Convis earned B.S. degrees in Natural History and Biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1981. He has more than 15 years of software design and programming experience in resources and conservation applications, more than 10 years of professional experience as a field ecologist, and more than 38 years experience coordinating nonprofit technology support. In 1989, he joined ESRI as a consultant and project manager. He is currently the head of the ESRI Conservation Program (ECP), an international program providing GIS software, hardware, training, scientific and cloud support services to more than 4,000 conservation organizations worldwide,
