Dennis O. Harris

In addition to his role with Prodea, Mr. Harris completed his 37½ year telecommunications career as President – Network Services, SBC/AT&T Midwest - a company that provides voice, data, custom calling functionality, and long distance services to over 10 million customers.
He managed a network operations workforce of over 30,000.
He and his organization executed some of the most ambitious multivariable testing (MVT) efforts in history.
He is featured in a recently released book, “Breakthrough Business Results with MVT by Charles Holland, for the success in just four months of cutting installation and repair backlog in half and dramatically improving custom response time.
Prior to his SBC/AT&T Midwest assignment, he was Senior Vice President – Human Resources responsible for employee benefits for all of SBC/AT&T.
He also has extensive experience in labor relations and chaired the 1986 bargaining team for AT&T.
He currently is on the Board of London Medical Management, and The R.J.
Carroll Company.
He is on the Advisory Board of TelaDoc Medical Services, The Westell Company, Echo 911, Treatment On Line, and The Northridge Group.
Mr. Harris received his BA in Liberal Arts from Texas A&M University – Commerce, Texas.
He also completed executive programs at Babson College and Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
He served eight years in the Texas National Guard and was honorably discharged as a Captain.