Mark Harris Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Oh, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

In this role, I analyze the technology operations of target companies to evaluate their strength for investment or acquisition.

Advisor for healthcare IT startup focused on the prior authorization

Chevy Chase, Md, Us

In my role as Senior Director of Engineering at GEICO, I led and completed an enterprise-wide BC/DR exercise requested by the board. I also created an end-to-end UI test framework with Playwright and Cucumber with over 700 tests for verification of a custom rating & underwriting engine, integrated into CI/CD. Additionally, I led the delivery of the architecture and design for an event-sourced microservices-based policy administration system, with an initial pilot of a binding restrictions service in Java/Spring. Furthermore, I replatformed observability from Dynatrace to a Grafana/Prometheus stack to reduce cost and improve configurability.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Recruited by CEO and COO to lead engineering, infrastructure, & data science for Aware after Series B funding. I grew with the company through a successful Series C round led by Goldman Sachs Growth Fund.Aware is the only comprehensive AI solution for governance, risk, compliance and insights for enterprise collaboration systems like Zoom, Slack, Teams, Yammer and Workplace. Aware provides the world's best tools for helping companies adapt to the new modes of information work.As the CTO, my job was to ensure that the engineering team helps the business win by scaling the people, the engineering processes, and the technology. Under my leadership, we grew the team 3x to 40+ engineers, improved release cadence from semi-annual to weekly, reduced transaction costs by 45%, and improved transaction throughput nearly 400% from 60m/month to 230/month.

Dublin, Oh, Us

Tapped by Vice President to lead distributed software teams across medical and retail-independent pharmacy businesses for inventory management, financial analysis, and remote pharmacy as a service solutions. Cardinal Health is a global, integrated healthcare services and products company providing customized solutions for hospital systems, pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories and physician offices worldwide.Fuse was built from the ground up to forge new paths in healthcare by blending innovation and technology. Fuse enables Cardinal Health to respond to market needs with commercial software solutions that solve complex problems in healthcare.

Columbus, Oh, Us

Recruited to develop and drive the vision for the API product for EHR integration. Grew to support the 40-person team who created and maintained the user-facing portal, APIs, and internal tools for over 60M transactions/month. In this role, I represented the product to integration partners and at industry conferences, worked with product management and executive leadership, and managed 4 managers. I also represented CoverMyMeds in NCPDP (www.ncpdp.org) in workgroups 1 and 11, helping to create the standard by which electronic prior authorization is transacted.

Lehi, Utah, Us

Recruited to lead engineering & SaaS business for web and mobile products for Manta.com, the leading small business-focused web site with over 20M unique visitors per month. Starting as enginering manager, was asked to lead the team responsible for customer service, advertising operations, advertising sales, traffic management, and product design/development after several months.

Columbus, Oh, Us

Asked by CIO to start quality assurance function within IT. Software Quality Assurance (testing, requirements analysis, release management, and SDLC) of business systems for commercial, personal, and life insurance as well as accounting and claims processing. Lead and manage team of 47 individual contributors and 3 managers.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Strategic technical sales consulting, applying Microsoft-based solutions to enterprise-level business problems. Supported sales efforts through relationships with director level and above technical contacts in Microsoft's major healthcare, retail, insurance, manufacturing, and logistics accounts in central and northern Ohio.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Asked by leadership to drive several teams to deliver high-visibility products for Microsoft in the Windows division. On the Internet Explorer team, developed and executed the technical and business strategy for Internet Explorer 7 add-ons, toolbars, and plug-ins and associated functionality, including IE Add-Ons website for day-one launch.In 2003-2005, I was tapped to lead the release of Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows XP SP2, in successive years. For each product, I led the team of program managers to define features and led end-to-end execution of the development project. This team made all day-to-day product-level decisions regarding included features, design changes, branding, localization, security reviews, change and risk management, scheduling, and communication.Drafted by Steve Ballmer to lead the "Red Team", a special project for the Department of Justice and European Union settlement to document all file formats and network protocols in the Windows product.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Starting as a software design engineer in test on Windows NT/95, I held several roles over the next 8 years in software testing, eventually supporting a team of 25 individual contributors and managers. Responsibilities included defining, coding, and executing automated test cases for the Windows Operating System components of Remote Procedure Call, BITS, System Restore, Group Policy, and the System Event Notification Service. Used threat analysis, software hazard analysis, test-driven-development, model-based testing, code coverage, and agile methods to assure quality of Windows components.

• Developed and delivered an engaging curriculum on C++ intermediate concepts, focusing on object-oriented programming and design principles.• Guided adult learners through hands-on exercises to master inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, and abstraction in C++.• Collaborated with colleagues to ensure course materials were up-to-date and relevant to industry standards.

Master'S, Business Administration

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer & Information Science