Bevis Pardee

About Bevis Pardee

Bevis Pardee is Senior Director of Information Technology at Harris Public Policy. He is responsible for the delivery of IT services to the Harris School faculty, staff, and students. Bevis directs an End User Service Delivery team that oversees desktop support, classroom support, and individual technology needs; web site management, including applications for business process solutions; research support of faculty and PhD students, including platform provisioning and management; and data management services.

Prior to joining Harris, Bevis was Global Director for Ecommerce Operations at a multinational electronics distributor, Premier-Farnell. While there, Bevis and his team build foundational systems to substantially change the company’s business model from salesperson-based sales to web and procurement systems. He also led initiatives to merge and consolidate systems between business units around the globe, including acquired companies. Bevis began his career at NORC, where he worked on several groundbreaking studies, including the National Longitudinal Survey and the General Social Survey, which are both reference points for policy makers of broad areas of interest.

Bevis holds a BA from Whittier College in English, with a minor in history. He has dabbled toward a graduate degree in urban studies (and sometimes wishes he had done more than dabble). He has substantial coursework in computer languages, systems engineering, and database design and management.