He is well known for being the CPA having founded and raising the funds for Peachtree Software. This is the company, which IBM selected as their microcomputer accounting Software to be on their first IBM PC. The software helped standardize double entry accounting in businesses through the PC. He operated the company very successfully growing it to be the leading software company in its field. It merged with a top public mainframe software company, where he was in charge of coordinating the work between the two companies. Even today, Peachtree software is sold by Sage, which is one of the world’s largest business software companies, as Sage 50. It is used by a great deal of people world-wide over all these years.
The second company was one of the first large eLearning companies that open up this new market. He operated the company for 14 years. It included overseeing the development and consulting to the largest clients. This included starting the university for Verizon and working with them for 12 years. Also started as well as directly operated the ELearning division for AT&T (Bell South) for four years. This included supervising a total of 35 employees selected to establish this standard in the company. Directly consulted to IBM (where the multimedia video was filmed at the IBM studios)and traveled the world with their executives. Other large companies acquired and consulted to include the Australian Government in creating their national eLearning center with IBM, operating a $ 10 Million grant for a large school system, the New York Labor Union center, Anheuser-Busch (where it was used at all their 29 plants), Ford Motors, Ga Pacific, Home Depot, McDonald’s and many others.
His other companies operated included a business software developer, which he turned around. It had clients including AFLAC, GM for their electric car, IBM, T-Mobile as well as another multimedia company.
Harvey started his career at PWC (Coopers). He became an audit senior and then was asked back to the firm after leaving Peachtree Software to become in charge of the SE Small computer IT consulting practice and serve on their National Computer Committee. He still maintains his CPA license that he earned while there. Over the years, he has served on committees for the American Institute of CPA’s (AICPA) and was a featured speaker many times at their national conferences.
He is also an author of a book on microcomputer software that a major publisher released.