Michael Harris, a crazy kooky inventor of Things-To-Come, is the Chief Innovation Officer and co-founder for GlobalMed in Scottsdale Arizona. He was born in 1958 on Lyndon B. Johnson’s birthday. He was a nerdy kid in high school and was one of a few Juniors allowed to take the off-campus E3 electronic course (the little guy below as a sophomore at Wausau West High).
Spending several years in tech school and 4 more in college (he has a BSie degree in Industrial Engineering), Michael went on to manage several Twin-Cities TEAM Electronic stores, started and owned three high-tech companies (Below during the TIES Tradeshow in Minneapolis and out visiting Steve Jobs at NeXT Computers).
The Harris International company started designing and distributing processor accelerators for Macintosh computers as well as developing video display cards for the new up and coming color monitors for Mac ( Michael at MacWorld Boston showing off the “Performer” accelerator and at the back offices of Atlantis speaker corporation).
In 1998 he moved his family to Arizona to Join PAR Technologies and finally GlobalMed. Having been in the electronics and information industries for the better part of his life and in the Telehealth industry for the past 16 years, Michael continues his quest for the betterment and excellence in healthcare technologies and new future innovations for the sciences. Michael is a speaker and presenter of future technologies, development and innovation, During an event in California for which Michael was a panelist, he had a chance to spend a few moments with one of his boyhood idols, Nolan Bushnell (left). In 2015, Michael was part of the CIO Synergy Summit and ran into Marc Randolph, who was Keynoting (Marc is one of the co-founder of Netflix and MacUser – to name a few). Michael got a chance to chat for a minutes and snag a selfie(below).
Michael has been part of the imaging and video conferencing experience for more than 25 years. Prior to co-founding GlobalMed in 2002, Mr. Harris was the Chief Technology Officer for PAR Technologies where he lead the charge in mobile video developments and mobile video conferencing suite, and in 1995 was President and Chief Operation Officer for iREZ Research where he managed over the Sales, Marketing and DevOps of the company’s mobile video camera and h.324 video conferencing software technologies. Mr. Harris was also the Director of Marketing and Digital technologies at VideoLabs during a successful IPO in 1992.