Mayra Harley
Entrepreneur & Innovative Technology Leader
Focused on the creative use of IT solutions to gain a specific business objective.
The best leaders in the world don’t act like they know everything. Mayra is one of them. She spends most of her time reading. She understands the fact that she has to continuously learn to be successful. She also co-authored a book on the hurdles and lows that one has to face in reaching goals.
Mayra has a strong thirst for knowledge. In the business world, a sponge is someone who is tirelessly driven to seek and absorb new information. That pretty much describes Mayra. She is somewhat obsessive about learning. So, it’s no surprise that she is an accomplished Enterprise Architect.
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a collaborative, consensus building alliance among business units for aligning technology with business goals and for designing, implementing, and maintaining the underlying infrastructure to support information sharing and resource optimization. This role requires a commitment to constant learning.
As a skilled enterprise architect, business executive and entrepreneur, Mayra’s accomplishments cover a broad scope of experience. From her background in developing prototypes to preview conceptual system functionalities, to her ability to translate business concepts into well-defined requirements and processes, Mayra brings a unique blend of technical know-how, process management, and marketing savvy to help businesses make a positive impact. As an enterprise architect, Mayra has taken companies business’ strategy and defined business’ technology architecture to support that strategy.
She has the know-how to:
- understand a company’s business and be able to dive deeply into technology issues
- communicate with both technical developers and business managers
- make technology decisions that support a company’s vision
- stand up in a meeting and tell the most senior person in the room unwelcome news
- align business goals with the IT infrastructure that supports the business and helps achieve those goals
- use Service Oriented Architecture as a style of software design
- learn enterprise software and align the business objectives and IT governance
- collaborate with qualified security assessors and standards-compliance organizations
Mayra also has experience as a software architect where she developed numerous customized applications, such as databases to collect and analyze data, as well as software released as a consumer good. She considers all aspects of the application, from performance qualities to size and security, and designs each element to work together with others.
As a Software Architect she has:
- specialized knowledge in all stages of software development
- experience working with both back-end and front-end technologies
- project management experience
- business analyst experience
- user centered design experience
- web development experience
- API planning and design experience that meets business objectives
- mobile development experience
- PCI software and hardware experience
- software consulting experience
Finally, Mayra always makes sure the requirements of a new software application fit with a company’s system architecture, such as existing operational systems. To realize significant cost savings, Mayra is able to determine whether an existing application has been built with quality and reusability in mind.
Mayra inspires and motivates through action
by empowering and coaching.
Mayra’s accomplishments cover a broad scope. From her background in developing prototypes to preview conceptual system functionalities, to her ability to translate business concepts into well-defined requirements and processes, she brings a unique blend of technical know-how, process management, and marketing savvy to help businesses make a positive impact. Including:
- knowledge in all stages of software development
- working with DevOps and cloud technologies
- project management and business analysis
- OOD, SaaS and web-based solutions
- cloud deployments and AI strategy
- API planning and design
- mobile apps (Apple and Android)
- security and compliance
Mayra’s passion lies not only in software architecture with the utmost integrity and service, but in delivering compassion to others who are less fortunate.
Mayra enjoys giving back to the community through volunteer projects where she can apply her skills for a good cause. Outside of the office, Mayra enjoys volunteering her time and providing financial support to children living in poverty.
The Harley’s sponsor two children through Compassion International.
As a software architect where she has spearheaded numerous customized solutions such as databases to collect and analyze data, as well as software released as a consumer good. She considers all aspects of the application, from performance qualities to size plus security, and designs each element to work together with others. Projects include:
- Onmi-Channel Transactional System
- Backoffice/Operations System
- Central Reservations System
- Global Distribution System
- Mobile Applications
- Lead Management System
- License Plate Recognition
- Monthly Parking Permit System
- Customer Loyalty System
As a practitioner of enterprise architecture, Mayra specializes in the broadest possible view of architecture within the business enterprise. In this capacity, she offers a wide range of experience from multiple enterprise-wide application projects including coordinating the work of software architects, database architects, infrastructure architects, and senior software engineers. She has worked in the following industries:
- Car Rental
- Hotel
- Airline
- Airports
- Cruise Ports
- Destination Marketing Agencies
- Attractions
- Parking and Access Management (Airport, Off-airport and Urban)
- Online Higher Education
Omnichannel System
hostPORT, an Electronic Distribution System (EDS) and smartLUIS, proprietary and patent pending Central Reservations System (CRS). As one system, hostPORT handles sales, inventory, and customer engagement with the ability to integrate and send reservations data seamlessly from to streamline marketing and operational efforts. smartLUIS CRS is the leading provider of white-label reservations technology for the travel and parking industries provides seamless interaction to a Point-of-sale, inventory management, ticket tracking, customer loyalty and management reports.
Online Payment Portal for Airport Authority
smartPAY, an employee parking online payment center for an international airport with over 7,000 employees, provides an online payment solution for airport employees to log-in to a secure area to manage their account and change information, subscribe or unsubscribe to auto-pay subscriptions, view payment history and much more in real time.
Point-of-Sale and Customer Loyalty System (Omnichannel consistency)
Modern POS system integrated with eCommerce platforms, making it easy to manage both in-store, online sales, customer history and points tracking from one dashboard.
Expense Management and Reservations Integration
The application allows users to connect their Concur account with airport parking reservations. After connecting their accounts, the users can easily expense parking costs with E-Receipts. The integration delivered traveler flexibility through the delivery of an E-Receipt for each booking.
Expense Management and Reservations Integration
The application allows users to connect their Concur account with airport parking reservations. After connecting their accounts, the users can easily expense parking costs with E-Receipts. The integration delivered traveler flexibility through the delivery of an E-Receipt for each booking.
Web-based Central Reservations System
RezNet, a comprehensive web-based inventory management and central reservation system for car rentals and hotels with multi-channel distribution to travel sites (Travelocity, Expedia, Trip.com, Orbitz) and the various travel agency GDS reservations systems (Sabre, Amadeus, Galileo, and Worldspan). RezNet was completely web-based with XML capabilities, an industry first.
Hotel Room Price Management
Spearheaded innovative approach to offer hotels real-time access to central reservations system used by customer service and support center. One of the first solutions to provide hotels and other lodging companies self-service price management capability.
Mayra is an accomplished tech executive with years of experience in multiple industries. Her expertise is enterprise architecture and has accomplished many successful large-scale deployments.
She displays excellent strategic vision with a strong customer focus. She likes to emphasize speed and is very candid in her communication. She has the ability to create a climate of reciprocal trust.