Benjamin W. Harris / 3722 w. Altgeld St., Chicago
Illinois 60647


(773) 896-6194
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE
Junior Developer
Bally Total Fitness, Chicago, Illinois
Developing new applications as part of an initiative to expand and update the organization’s client and prospect facing tools. Creating schedule boards to provide club members with touch screen interaction with Bally Fitness class, instructor and class media content. Implementing chat functionality and prospect pipeline tracking tags within ballyfitness.com. Defining the class media content administration portal.
Staff Consultant,
i.c.stars|*, Chicago, Illinois
  • Ball Horticulture Company
Developed a custom product lifecycle management application to streamline Ball’s business processes surrounding product R&D documentation and report generation. Refined requirements to extend functionality of the Product Development Database (PDD) across the differing needs of their product development groups.
  • Synthesis Solutions
Redeployed SynthesisSolutions.biz as a content management system (CMS) to manage client contact and profile information. Worked with the group’s president to establish CMS centrally in a client lead recruitment and lead conversion process.
Established a customized user access, context specific content access, and social media capacity.
Program Coordinator,
i.c.stars|*, Chicago, Illinois
Leveragedi.c.stars’|* 700+ member volunteer network to create and deploy its’ 18 week curriculum for 5 consecutive groups of interns. Improved utility of the CMS for i.c.stars|* and United Congress of Religious and Community Organizations (UCCRO). Engaged new volunteers in one-time,limited and/or extended opportunities. Created project plans for corporate sponsorship packages relating to i.c.stars’|* RFI/RFP Competitions. Compiled management report for SIM Chicago email marketing campaigns. Coordinated daily, high touch business development events. Recruited, interviewed and evaluatedapplicants during the 2009-10 internships. Worked as a facilitator/mentor on:
  • United Stationer Technology Services (USTS), LLP RFI/RFP Competition
Creating the work plan and project facilitation documents needed for USTS’s RFI/RFP Competition with i.c.stars|* intern consulting teams, including meeting scheduling, volunteer coordination and definition of intern learning objectives.
  • Movement Makers for UCCRO
Working with 3 groups (35 interns in total) to complete the application development process for UCCRO’s robust social media site. Conducting training sessions with icstars|* interns on DRUPAL, QA, and the SDLC.
Intern,
i.c.stars|*, Chicago, Illinois
A 1,000 hour technology and business internship that utilizes project-based learning and consulting to develop the skills necessary to solve our client’s business problems. Projects during the internship included:
  • United Congress of Community and Religious Organizations
Created a development model of MovementMakers.com, using Drupal as a CMS, PHP, CSS, and HTML, and MySQL. Redesigned the site’s campaign page GUI to increase ease of use,functionality, and SEO. Coordinating implementation and managing the expectations of community organizers.
  • United Stationers Technology Services, LLP(USTS)
Established V.I.P. Consulting Group and responded to USTS’s enterprise user-provisioning solution request. Collaborating with V.I.P to present a solution that best leveraged Avatier’s Identity Management Server software to reduce USTS’s operational cost by $300K.
Additionally, served as Founder & Marketing Lead for Savvy Scholars, an online student-to studentmarketplace designed to compete in the $5.5 billion used textbook market. Designed an aggressive search engine marketing campaign and utilized social media to further drive users. Worked closely with Origin Ventures’Founding Principalto develop a proof of concept & 5 year e-business plan during the5 week projected, ending in a simulated venture capital funding consideration. Also, completed a profitability analysis case study utilizinga series of SQL queries in MS Access, and data tables in MS Excel in expert time.
Library Specialist II
Chicago-Kent College Library of Law, Chicago, Illinois
Performed updates, maintenance, and backups of the library’s MARC/OPAC server. Improved information integrity and availability of the ESI resources, recovering 20K+ orphaned pages. Managed daily accumulation of new ESI content generated by part-time staff. Planned 4-week changeover strategy to retain productivity during the modernization of the card catalog. Led staff training for the changeover to a new integrated library system(SIRSI). / Proficiencies
C#.NET/VB.NET
ASP.NET/WCF
SQL / MySQL
CSS
HTML
JavaScript / JQuery
PHP
XML
TelerikRadContols
Telerik Reporting
MS Visual Studio
MS SQL Server
DRUPAL CMS
SQLyog
MS Team Foundation Server
Tortoise SVN
VisualSVN
Jungle Disk Workgroup
Smartsheet PM Tool
SalesForce CRM
Paint.net
Adobe Creative Suite
MS Office Suite