Robin L. Harris, CPA     
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Biography  
Robin L. Harris, CPA, currently serves as the Vice President & C.F.O. of hb technologies, inc. Ms. Harris has over 17 years of experience managing the financial structures of organizations. During her tenure in private practice as a Certified Public Accountant, she was responsible for implementing and maintaining the complex financial structures of various business entities including corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and non-profit organizations. Her areas of expertise include income tax accounting, compilation and review reporting, litigation support services, and trust accounting. Ms. Harris has served on various litigation support teams, taxpayer advocacy teams, accounting software training teams, and as an expert witness in civil litigation.

Ms. Harris’ deeply rooted work ethic dates back to her childhood where she spent countless hours working on her grandfather’s farm in rural South Georgia. She continued her endeavors of becoming financially independent by working in a local property and casualty insurance agency throughout her high school and college career.

Ms. Harris began her professional career as an accountant in the food processing industry at Claxton Poultry, a food processing plant that provides over 300 million pounds of poultry products annually for human consumption to retail grocers, distributors, restaurants, and institutions. She worked under the supervision of the corporate controller overseeing a customer financial database of over 750 customers. Her responsibilities included the daily reconciliation of all national and international accounts, with the plant exporting 33 million pounds of frozen poultry to countries such as China, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Romania.

She then began working in the fuel oil industry for a wholesaler of petroleum products providing propane, diesel, gas, and kerosene products to residential, agricultural, and retail customers. She was directly responsible for the financial accounting of daily operations, including the management of payroll, accounts receivable, accounts payable, sales, and inventory. Ms. Harris also maintained the inventory and sales records for the parent company’s subsidiary retailers and distributors, and she prepared all required governmental tax filings.

While in private industry, Ms. Harris was exposed to numerous industries and business entities while completing a ten-year tenure in public accounting. While working as a senior accountant with the regional accounting firm of Dabbs, Hickman, Hill and Cannon, LLP, Ms. Harris augmented her industry experience by specializing in the areas of individual, partnership, and corporate income taxation, estate and trust financial planning and accounting, bankruptcy financial reporting, civil litigation support, compilation and review reporting, and business structure and financial planning for small businesses. She provided assistance to her clients through financial analysis in business acquisitions, bankruptcy and divorce proceedings, business start-up proposals and business entity determination, bonding program reporting, and SBA financing. Her skills were also utilized for internal control policy and procedure recommendations, financial projections and income tax planning, project feasibility reviews, and retirement planning.

Ms. Harris later employed her expertise in the area of taxpayer advocacy through negotiations and offers in compromise with the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of her clients. She was also instrumental in implementing and maintaining the complex financial structures of various clients and corporate entities, including clients within the healthcare industry, land development and construction industry, and the food brokering and distribution industry.

In addition to working in private practice, Ms. Harris also worked for Synovus, a multi-state diversified financial services holding company with more than $33 billion in assets. She practiced in the areas of corporate management and finance as well as business development, personal finance, and branch operations. 

Today Ms. Harris provides the financial and managerial leadership for hb technologies, inc., a design/build construction firm that works exclusively with churches who are building. As the Vice President & C.F.O., her primary responsibilities are to serve in a fiduciary capacity in maintaining the financial structure and integrity of the firm, as well as the compilation and oversight of all construction budgets and contracts of the firm’s clients. 

Ms. Harris is a member of the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants, where she recently served both as Vice President and Treasurer. In addition, she is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She has also served as President of the Professional Women of Statesboro, Treasurer of the Bulloch County Chapter of the American Red Cross, Team Captain of the American Diabetes Association, and Advisory Board Member for the Accounting Program at Ogeechee Technical College.

Ms. Harris earned a B.B.A. in accounting from the College of Business at Georgia Southern University, and she is currently completing her M.B.A., also in the College of Business at Georgia Southern University. Ms. Harris is licensed to practice public accounting in the State of Georgia, and she maintains her license to practice by completing numerous professional development seminars, classes, and workshops annually, all of which concentrate on financial accounting and reporting for the engineering and construction industry.