James Harris
Director Corporate Development
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Harris is a strategic corporate development leader with 11 years of experience driving product, marketing, and M&A initiatives at Rain Bird Corporation. He combines hands-on product management of IoT controllers and home-improvement hardware with a proven record of evaluating acquisitions, forging partnerships, and onboarding new business to achieve synergies. James pairs an Executive MBA from the University of Arizona with deep channel and sales experience working directly with national builders and retail partners, giving him a rare blend of commercial instincts and technical product fluency. His career trajectory spans award-winning sales roles through product and global marketing leadership to his current Director of Corporate Development role, reflecting consistent growth into cross-functional strategy. Outside work he pursues multi-sport races and mountain climbing, disciplines he cites as sources of planning rigor and resilience that inform his professional approach. Based in Tucson, he focuses on aligning technology scouting and business development to expand market leadership in intelligent water management.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at University of Arizona, Eller College of ManagementBachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at Brigham Young University
Spanish
Github Skills (53)
simulate10
freebsd10
solaris10
mifare9
sniffer9
openzfs9
linux9
rfid9
nfc9
printer9
3d-printer9
tarball9
reader-writer9
pcie8
reader8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JamesRHarris/infinitv_pcie
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
Linux driver for the Ceton InfiniTV PCIe
Contributions:5 commits, 7 pushes in 2 years 5 months
linux-driverdriverlinuxpciesoftware-update
JamesRHarris/proxmark3
Mar 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:5 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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