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Mike Harris : music, event production, software engineering, coaching, mentoring, organising, communication, and people enthusiasm.

About me

A photo of Mike Harris in a panama hat from 2022 I enjoy writing, playing, recording and performing music solo and with other fellow musicians and am currently working to improve my skills in the area of music, learning the mandolin and mandola and to read music. My current musical project is with Naomi Rosenberg and you can hear some tracks and follow updates at our Bandcamp page. I enjoy gardening, traveling, reading, walking, socialising, getting to know people and spoken languages. For the second-half of 2024, I took a career break to travel through France, Spain, Portugal, and Australia, visiting friends, family, and cultural attractions. I enjoy learning about cultural and religious history.

I am the co-founder of HacktionLab, a UK network of tech-activists for which I have produced the BarnCamp annual conference event. I am the co-director of XtreamLab, a small hosting provider providing hosting and low-fi Internet services for small businesses, not-for-profit organisations, and individuals.

I have extensive experience in the production of public events and have devised and produced a number of events over the years, and have also worked at wide variety of events and are well-versed in most aspects of event production. Here is a complete list of all events I've been involved thus far.

Current Projects

My current active projects are:

Skills

Software engineering
Software design, team management, team leadership, software architecture, cloud computing (AWS), programming in Go, COBOL and Python, project management with Agile, Scrum, Lean and XP, product development & delivery, in-sourcing, project inception planning, IT policy. Visit my page of professional IT and software engineering experience and to check up on my education
Spoken languages
Native English speaker, fluency in Spanish, advanced Catalan
Management
Coaching and mentoring for personal and professional development, hiring and developing teams,communication, listening, event planning and group facilitation. Personal and professional support and development of direct reports.
Music
Musical improvisations and songwriting; guitar, mandolin, mandola, and bouzouki

Art

Articles

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