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Dr. Michael E. Harris, C.P.L., C.C.M.

Michael Edward Harris was born on 05 November 1949 to Sgt. Herbert O’Neal Harris and Evelyn Louise Harris, nee Robinson at the Post Hospital at Fort Monroe, VA. He has one child, Miranda L. Harris, born in 1986.

Dr. Harris has a BS in Mathematics/Physics, BS in Criminal Justice, MBA in General/Strategic Management, a PhD in Business Ethics (Internal to Company), and a DBA in Management (Management Attitudes in Relation to Success of Virtual Teams). He earned a Certified Professional Logistician (C.P.L.) in 1981 from the International Society of Logistics (formerly called the Society of Logistics Engineers – SOLE); he earned a Certified Configuration Manager (C.C.M.) in 1990 from the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). As a professional in the defense/aerospace industry, Dr. Harris has published about 30 papers and has presented at many conferences and symposia in the United States and in Europe. Dr. Harris considers himself a Logistician.

Writing as The Ethics DoctorSM, Dr. Harris writes and consults on business ethics, primarily from the perspective of the corporate employee. His current research is on the relationship of the corporate entity to its local community and on identifying white-collar crime in professional organizations.

Defense/Aerospace-Related Publications

“Stratified Risk Management”, Logistics Spectrum, Volume 36, Issue 4, October-December 2002.

“The Challenges of Being the Last-Developed System in a System of Systems”, The ITEA Journal of Test and Evaluation, Volume 23, Number 2, June/July 2002. (Principal author, with C.V. Szewczuk and J.A. Collier)

“Six Sigma – A Management Approach to Benefit the Corporate Bottom Line”, Logistics Spectrum, Volume 36, Issue 1, January-March 2002.

“Risk Management – A Simple, Stratified Approach”, Cutter Executive Update, Business-IT Strategies Advisory Service, Volume 4, Number 21, 2002.

“Process Improvement – A Management Primer”, proceedings of the GEIA 35th Annual Engineering & Technical Management Conference/Symposium, Reno, Nevada, 10-14 September 2001.

“Six Sigma Management Approach in Support of Corporate Bottom Line and Customer Total Ownership Cost”, proceedings of the Third Annual Systems Engineering – Supportability Conference/Workshop, San Diego, California, 23-26 October 2000.

"Return to the Classics – A Classical Approach to Systems Engineering", proceedings of the Second Annual Systems Engineering – Supportability Conference/Workshop, San Diego, California, 21-23 September 1999.

"Cost-Effective Configuration Management for the 21st Century", proceedings of the Thirty-fourth Annual International Logistics Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, 31 August-2 September 1999

"Taoism and the Logistics Manager", proceedings of the Thirty-fourth Annual International Logistics Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, 31 August-2 September 1999.

"Transporting an Existing Business to a New Facility and a New Concept of Operations", proceedings of the 1999 Acquisition Research Symposium, Rockville, Maryland, 21-23 June 1999.

"How Not to Conduct a Configuration Management Program", Logistics Spec¬trum, January/February 1997.

"Shared System Engineering Data", proceedings of the Twelfth International Logistics Congress, Athens, Greece, 27-29 September 1996.

"Integration of Life-Cycle Cost/Logistics Support Cost into System Supportability", proceedings of the Eighth International Logistics Congress, Madrid, Spain, 1-3 April 1992.

"Slash Logistics Analytical Requirements?" proceedings of the Sixth International Logistics Congress, Montreal, Canada, 5-6 April 1990.

"Configuration Management as a Logistics Communications Tool", proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual International Logistics Symposium, San Francisco, California, August 1989.

"Logistics Profits: The Long Term View," proceedings of the Fifth International Logistics Congress, London, England, April 1989. "Making Smart Logistics Managers", Program Manager, DSMC, November/December 1988.

"Software Logistics Support Teaming", proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual International Logistics Symposium, Orlando, Florida, August 23-25, 1988.

"Computer Aided Logistics Support", ORSA/SOLE Monograph, Fall 1987 (Editor).

"Computer Systems Standardization as an Element of Software Maintenance", Logistics Engineering, the proceedings of the International Summer Seminar, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 21-25 September 1987. (Invited paper)

"An Overview of Software Logistics", International Summer Seminar, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 21-25 September 1987. (Invited lecture)

"Software Reliability Metrics", International Summer Semi¬nar, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 21-25 September 1987. (Invited lecture)

"Transition of Software Maintenance to the End User", pro¬ceedings of the Third European Logistics Congress, Florence, Italy, June 11-13, 1987.

"Smart Logistics Managers", proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual International Logistics Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, August 12-14, 1986.

"Software Logistic Support: Some Considerations," proceed¬ings of the Second European Logistics Congress, Växjo, Sweden, June 11-12, 1985.

"Support Considerations in RFP Preparation", proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International Logistics Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 21-23, 1984.

"Weapon System Software Support Documentation", Logistics Spectrum, Spring 1984. (Principal author, with L.D. Perkins)

"Weapon System Software Support Documentation: A New Ap¬proach," proceedings of the Society of Logistics Engineers' Software Documentation Seminar, Rome, Italy, May 13, 1983. (Principal author, with L.D. Perkins)

"La Documentation des Logiciels d'un Systeme d'Arme", Logistique Nouvelle Tendance, proceedings of the Premier Congress Annuel Europeen, Paris, France, May 5-6, 1983. (Principal author, with L.D. Perkins)