Manager Project

Ron Harris

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Edmonds, WA *****

425-***-**** (Home Office)

510-***-**** (Mobile)

*********@*******.***

Areas of Expertise:

Process: Various SLDC process models (Agile, Waterfall, Spiral, RAD, and Incremental)

Languages: C/C++, SQL, JAVA/EJB, DHTML/HTML, JHTML, Java Script, Visual Basic, TCL,

Perl, Revelation, PDP-Basic, x86 & 68k Assembler, FORTRAN 77

Environments: SOA, SaaS, BizTalk, Windows 7/8, XP, GNU, J2EE,Visual C++, SDK/DDK, MFC,

OLE\ActiveX, Informix, Sybase, DB2, Postgres, IBM-Websphere & MQ-Series,

COM/DCOM, Power Builder, Cold Fusion, ATG-Dynamo, Rest, Webservices

Operating Systems: Windows 7, XP, Vista, 2000, NT, DOS, UNIX, LINUX, SCO-UNIX(Intel-based),

XENIX, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, BSD, Macintosh O/S, Novell, PICK, PDP-11

Professional Experience:

Harris and Associates 2012 – Present

Founder & Business/Program Manager

Senior Program Manager for multiple real estate transactions, successfully acquired 4

foreclosure/rehab properties, reselling 3, retaining 1 for rental.

• Managed all aspects of the transactions including the following:

Responsible for all Research and Requirements Gathering.

Facilitated Contract Bidding and Execution.

Mortgage Implementation.

General Contractor for all Construction (additions, repairs, and landscaping).

Managed disparate teams (plumbers, electricians, city inspectors).

Negotiated property resell and price.

American Precious Metal Exchange 6/12 – 4/13

Program Manager – APMEX.com

The current site (www.APMEX.com), is one of the largest online gold bullion exchanges in the

world, and the sole bullion provider for EBay’s “Bullion Center”.

• Managed various roles for the internationalization, website redesign/deployment, and EBay

Bullion Center launch for an end of year (12/12) delivery date.

• Program Manager:

Internationalization: Worked with management to define achievable goals

and scope for the international launch.

Site Redesign: Managed conflicting requirements, schedules, and

resources to deliver a 65% new US based site.

EBay: Worked with EBay partner group to scope functionality and

requirements to support the EBay Bullion Exchange.

• Technical Project Manager:

EBay: Wrote the functional specification for APMEX/EBay web Services

integration.

Internationalization: Wrote Technical Specs, Facilitating JAD Sessions,

Managed the 11 person Development team

• Test Manager & Deployment Manager:

Site Redesign: Wrote and managed the overall Test Plan.

• Worked with developers to define the automated test scripts.

• Managed an off shore test team of 10.

5531 170th Place SW

Edmonds, WA 98037

425-***-**** (Home office)

510-***-**** (Mobile)

Ron Harris *********@*******.***

• Worked with business users to gain a better understanding of

business requirements and incorporated their feedback into testing

scenarios.

Microsoft Corporation 8/2010 – 6/2012

Program Manager – Retail Data Management (9/2011 – 6/2012)

• Working with ES data and solution architects to define the data mastering strategy for V2 of the

Microsoft Store Online and Brick and Mortar.

• Working with stakeholders to define the WCF-based messaging layer required to implement the

Retail Data Master.

• Driving Retail V2 design by working with the stakeholders to define and write Use Cases,

Requirements, VROMS, and Functional/Technical Specifications.

• Working risks, issues, and bugs through the SDLC process and project politics.

Program Manager – Master Data Management (8/2010 – 8/2011)

• Managed all aspects of multiple feature teams, Design, Development, Q/A, Production rollout.

• Drove the design by working with the stakeholders to define and write Use Cases/Requirements,

Statements of Work (One Page Spec), and Functional/Technical Specifications.

• Interacted with different leadership teams; Development, Test/QA, Business Stakeholders, PMs,

and Architects to drive the project forward and provided regular status updates to upper management.

SchemaLogic Corporation 9/2005 – 11/2008

Practice Manager/Program Manager/Account Manager

• Managed a 6-9 person consultant practice including: day to day activities, quarterly budget, product

development, and services sales.

• Managed customer accounts from a technical and program management perspective, providing

input into sales, and product development.

• Project Manager for a multitude of large scale cross functional projects:

• Boeing – Metadata Management with web services integrations to Documentum for

governance/document management and Google for search.

• Astra Zeneca - MDM with Metadata management, and SharePoint integration.

• Pfizer - MDM with SharePoint and web services integration to the FAST search engine.

• Genentech - MDM with Metadata Management, Autonomy, and Documentum integration.

• Canadian Government- Metadata repository with integrations to OLAP/Cube and Meta

Integrations Metadata Repository engine.

• New York Public School System - Metadata repository with integrations to Google for

search and North Plains Digital Asset Management repository.

• LDS Church – MDM with integrations to Autonomy for search, Interwoven for web content

management, and North Plains for digital asset management.

• Assisted in the development of a repeatable project methodology for customer implementations.

• Worked with product development to define scope functionality, and use cases of new product

features based on customer’s requirements and requests.

Interwoven Corporation 2/2003 – 7/2005

Senior Solution Engineer

• Managed named accounts from a technology perspective, providing input into technical direction,

useable features, developed strategies and tactics to create productive, long-term working

relationships.

• Assisted customers in developing functional specifications, use cases, and detailed designs.

• Developed and delivered customer and trade show presentations.

• Worked directly with the account reps to develop and implement a successful sales strategy in a

new sales territory, scoped potential projects and generated Statements of Work for the bidding

process.

Totality Corporation 6/2001 – 10/2002

Director of Technology

• Managed the relationship between sales and engineering, field marketing, and consulting services.

• Identified specific technologies to be incorporated in Totality’s product offering.

• Developed a product offering including design, resource requirements, pricing and marketing

collateral to migrate Informix E-Commerce customers from their unsupported Informix platform to the

Art Technology Group’s Dynamo 5 platform.

• Performed as the Senior Technical Architect & Program Manager on three major accounts (Kmart,

Sharper Image, GNC).

5531 170th Place SW

Edmonds, WA 98037

425-***-**** (Home office)

510-***-**** (Mobile)

Ron Harris *********@*******.***

Informix Software/IBM 4/1995 – 6/2001

Director of Sales (11/1999 – 6/2001)

• Managed the relationship between sales and product development, field marketing, and consulting

services. Identified specific product feature sets/requirements to be incorporated into the next release of

the product. Coordinated consulting partner’s efforts on “high visibility” accounts.

Consulting Practice Manager (3/1998 – 11/1999)

• Managed a 34 person consulting practice specializing in Web-based implementations: Content

Management, Digital Asset Management, Business to Business and Retail E-Commerce, Bill

Presentment, Data Analysis/Dashboard, E-learning, and Help desk applications.

• Developed a project methodology, which included best practices for Informix’s Web/E-commerce

consulting practice which Informix implemented company-wide for all of the consulting practices.

Project Manager/Architect (7/1996 – 3/1998)

• Project manager for a $3.6 million, 3-year development effort for a prisoner management system.

• Managed resource allocation, customer design request, customer expectations, and a 10-person

development team.

Architect/Lead Development Engineer (4/1995 – 7/1996)

• Responsibilities include working with ISV and OEM customers to integrate their domain expertise into

extensible Informix Universal Server via DataBlade Architecture (User Defined Data Types, C/C++/Java APIs).

• Design and developed a video streaming interface/API for use with an Informix database.

• Designed, developed, and implemented the Windows NT/Solaris C++ API to the Informix databases.

• Wrote a conversion API for Informix’s complex data types to be accessed by the ODBC interface.

• Managed resource allocation, product design requirements, change control, and a nine-person

development team.

TRW Financial Systems 3/1990 – 4/1995

Architect/Engineer/Sr. Consultant

• Worked with Bank of America, to determine system design requirements for a $30+ million bank

check processing system and converted customer’s business requirements to a functional specification.

• Designed and implemented an application interface layer to insulate any application from a reliance

on any specific database.

• Served as system architect, client liaison, and design/team lead for an eight-member development group.

• Developed, debugged, and deployed the SCSI based system-level drivers to control the document

image scanner and the document MICR reader.

Bunker Ramo 6/1984 – 3/1990

Software Engineer

• Supervised and provided software support to eight field engineers.

• Developed UNIX based applications for an on-line cash control system with various banking

applications.

• Custom developed PICK/TCL applications for a multi-user inventory control system.

• Performed third-party software support on multiple 100 to 600-user PICK/Revelation based

systems.

• Implemented enhancements and change requests to a collection bureau on-line query application.

• Developed bank administration, multi-user application for use in DOS and UNIX environments.

Education:

University of Washington: Seattle, WA

Field(s) of Study: Computer Science and Psychology 1981 -

1984

Green River Community College Auburn, WA

Field of Study: Electrical Engineering 1979 – 1981

Certifications:

Project Management Institute Seattle, WA

Project Management Professional

Program Management Professional 8/2014 – Present

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