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
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