David Harrison
David J M Harrison
2100 Mercers Fernery Rd, DeLand, Florida 32720
1.386.334.3380
OBJECTIVE: INFLUENTIAL POSITION UTILIZING MY EXPERIENCE AND PASSION
TO PRODUCE USABLE, INTUITIVE AND EFFECTIVE SOFTWARE
APPLICATIONS.
STRENGTHS: Communication / People / Presentations / Computer
Technology / Usability / Human Factors / Team
Development / Entrepreneurial Leadership / Creative
Passion
EDU/LIC: Bethune-Cookman University Psychology Degree in
progress, Licensed Real Estate Broker, Licensed Mortgage
Broker, Notary Public
2007 to Current Real Estate Service Start Up - BuyersOracle.com, DeLand Florida.
Owner/President of a new Full Disclosure Pre-Auction
Real Estate C2C web-based service. User-Centric design
and HCI beginning with Concept Development, Task
analysis, Wire-Framing and Storyboarding followed by
Low-Fidelity Prototyping and Usability Testing reducing
time to market considerably.
2003 to Current Mortgage Broker - American Dream Lending LLC, Orlando Florida.
Licensed Florida Mortgage Broker proficient in
residential loans.
2002 to Current Real Estate Broker / Owner - Dave Harrison Realty Inc, Forida.
Originally with Keller Williams Realty as a Real Estate
Salesperson and now Real Estate Broker / Owner of Dave
Harrison Realty, Inc. where the position entails all
aspects of business ownership, including sales,
marketing, contracts, IT, rentals, presentations,
photography, virtual tours, investment and resource
management.
2001 to 2002 Stone Sculptor Clearwater, Florida.
An enjoyable early retirement which did not fulfill my
business aspirations or passion to interact with people.
Art work on display in Saint Petersburg Florida with
sales to an Italian Race Car Driver amoung others.
1998 to 2001 President Owner / Engineer - Harrison Design LLC, New England Based
Usability, Human Factors and User Centric Design
consultant working with Liberty Mutual, Optas Inc,
Schering-Plow and other firms nationwide. Integrated
with user groups and development to design superior
software based upon task analysis, low fidelity
prototypes and storyboarding. Utilized laboratories in
Chicago for some usability data collection. Frequent
presentations on Usability, Human Factors and User
Centric Design.
1992 to 1998 Senior Software Engineer - CLaM Associates, Cambridge Mass.
Developed front-end and middle ware for numerous web
applications using C, C++, and Visual Basic for CLaM.
Focuses on User Centric Design, Heuristic Evaluations
and Usability during culminate tenure.
1989 to 1992 QA Manager, Phoenix Technologies, Cambridge Mass.
Hired and managed team of 22 engineers in testing the
accuracy of PCL5 and PostScript, PS/2 Interpreters on
SUN UNIX OS and leading industry printers.
1984 to 1991 Quality Assurance / Tools Engineer - Wang Laboratories, Lowell Mass.
Primarily worked on testing languages and writing
automated test tools on the WANG VS and IBM Mainframes.
Wrote COBOL Work Order applications.
1981 to 1984 Software Engineer, Data Group Corporation, Lexington
Mass.
Updated CICS tables, wrote assembler maintenance
programs. Taught classes on text editors to students
at associated school CPI (Computer Processing Institute).
Member number:10065
Additional Contact information is available on the Information Page.
Software Contractors' Guild (www.scguild.com)
Copyright(c) 1995 - 2006 David Harrison and Software Contractors' Guild,
3 Country Club Dr., #303, Manchester, NH USA 03102