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Goal
Contribute as much as possible to ecological regeneration and long-term sustainability of human settlements. Special interest in issues of food production, water, and energy, utilizing the design principles from Permaculture, natural farming, and appropriate technology.

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Skills

• Software development - 14+ years. Scientific instrumentation, data acquisition and control. Some web development.
  
• Project management - 5+ years.
• Patent and contract development, administration. - 4+ years.
  
• Financial analysis and modeling. - 5+ years. Including real-estate development projects.
• Technical Writing - 2+ years.
• Research, information gathering, due diligence. - 20+ years
  
• Growing food - 30+ years of home-scale gardens (all sheet mulched since 1981)
  
• Some skills in carpentry, cabinet making, construction.

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Education

• BS Physics - University of California at Santa Barbara
• BA Mathematics/Economics - University of California at Santa Barbara
• Many continuing education courses and conferences.
  
• Permaculture Design Certification Course - Regenerative Design Institute - Instructors: Penny Livingston-Stark, John Valenzuela, M. Kalani Souza, Brock Dolman
  
• Permaculture-related workshops/courses by Larry Santoyo, David White

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Experience

• SourceCell, 2004-present - Software Engineer and Founder. Custom software development and consulting.  Mostly related to hardware/software systems.   (For more details re software engineering experience, see www.kelleyharris.com/resume/softwareResume.html)
• Veeco Instruments (formerly Digital Instruments), 1997-2008 - Various roles including Sr. Software Engineer, Director of Software Engineering. The software controlled atomic-force microscopes. (They can see atoms and DNA) Worked on a couple world firsts. Won three patents.  Lots of issues related to software architecture, design patterns, team process issues, science, measurement, etc.
  
• Digital Instruments, 1993-1997 - Assistant to President. Focused on patent and contract issues. Compiled evidence for patent infringement suit.
  
• Venture Analysis,1988-1992 - Private investment analysis, including real-estate development projects.  Was able to get Mike Corbett (creator of the Village Homes project) and David Wright (solar architect) involved in one development project. (project stopped by recession)
  
• Other work included: computer programming, technical writing, carpentry, cabinet making, art hanging/moving, construction, mining, landscaping, scuba-diving services
  
• Personal projects included:  elder care, gardens, hydroponics, portable geodesic dome (designed and built), various passive solar hot-water systems, solar ovens, song writing, art, product design, planting rare Hawaiian fruit trees on the big island (Honokaa area and Waipi'o Valley), etc.

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Other Big Influences

• Cancer battle of my life partner.  http://www.kelleyharris.com/notes/cancer/cancer.html  Increased my interest in fresh-ripe-local-organic food, and related issues.
• I started experimenting in food production and appropriate technology in the late 1970s, greatly effected by the work of Buckminster Fuller, Bill Mollison (Permaculture 1 and 2), Masanobu Fukuoka, J. Russell Smith (Tree Crops), James Sholto Douglas (Forest Farming), John Jeavons, Victor Papanek (Design for the Real World), David Wright (Passive Solar architeture), Michael Corbett (Village Homes), and many more.
  
• High School in Aspen Colorado.  A first glimpse of a broader world of entrepreneurial & ecological thinking. Volunteered on early solar energy activities.

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References

• www.kelleyharris.com/resume/softwareResume.html#references
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