[3][4] Harmon got his HS degree from Shortridge High School in 1960, and received a BA in biology from Earlham College in 1965.
He began his career working for Geary Rummler at Praxis Corp. in New York City.
Throughout the seventies he owned his own consulting company and did major process redesign projects with clients like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Security Pacific, Prudential, and Citibank.
In the Eighties and Nineties Harmon was a senior consultant and head of Cutter Consortium's Distributed Architecture practice.
Currently Harmon is the Executive Editor of www.BPTrends.com—a monthly webizine that publishes articles and reports on Business Process topics.