Craig Harvey is a 1998 graduate of the Geography program at the University of Iowa. His interest in Geography began with a work study position with the USGS Water Resources Division in Iowa City. Shortly after taking the work study position he declared his major in Geography. He continued to work at the USGS through his undergraduate studies and eventually started a career with the USGS that lasted more than a decade starting with titles such as Hydrologic Technician, and ending as a GIS Specialist. With the USGS, Harvey continued to develop both his GIS expertise and desire to teach. He was selected as one of the USGS Senior GIS staff acting as both a national instructor teaching GIS and an a resource providing top level support to water resources scientists across the country. While working at the USGS, Harvey acted as guest lecturer at the University of Iowa, Kirkwood Community College, and taught Introductory GIS at Drake University. Harvey culminated his career with the USGS by commercializing the watershed model BasinSoft which is still in use today.

Harvey left public service to join PixSell, a fledgling startup company located at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in 1999. Using his experience, education, and Hawkeye spirit he grew a nonexistent GIS program into nearly a million dollar program and balanced training and production while developing a first-rate technical staff in just under two years. As an early advocate of Web-based solutions Harvey was intent on positioning his technical staff to capitalize on the Web-based evolution of Geospatial data processing and data delivery. In 2002 his experience and vision made him a natural candidate to lead startup NVision Solution’s operations where he developed a highly technical and eclectic award winning staff. Harvey continues to maintain contacts at the University of Iowa and the Iowa City community viewing both as well defined resources that he has tapped many times having hired four Iowa alums during his entrepreneurial career for their well rounded education, expertise, and hard work. Still on a steep growth curve, NVision is a post 9/11 high tech start up company that has not only survived the “dot com era” and the ensuing “technological winter” but flourished. Now more than 5 years old, NVision Solutions projects revenues approaching 5 million per year in 2008. With 23 current employees NVision continues to seek qualified GIS and GIS/Programming candidates to fill existing positions on Harvey’s team. Harvey's visionary work at NVision has lead to numerous awards: The 2006 Tibbetts Award for exemplary work in Small Business Innovation Research, Harvey was selected as SBA’s 2006 Small Business Person of the Year recognizing hard work, innovative ideas, and dedication to community, two Special Achievement in GIS Awards from ESRI, and the ESRI 2005 New Partner of the Year Award to name a few. Harvey attributes his success to his Marine Corp mentality and his well rounded Iowa Liberal Arts Education and experiences.