Mike Howard

Current

• Owner and Chief Gofer at Clove Technologies, Inc (Self-employed)

Past

• Vice President at Miller/Howard Investments, Inc
• Co Founder at Miller/Howard Investments, Inc
• Assistant Professor at SUNY at New Paltz

• Programmer at Technicon Corp
• Engineer or some such at Rockwell Collins
• Engineering Analyst at Sperry Systems Management

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Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Connections

10 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Mike Howard’s Summary

I write code. I don't do Microsoft. Best overview is on my web site: http://www.clove.com.

I've been self employed since 1985 in three different businesses. Am currently between things and am looking for an interesting opportunity.

Mike Howard’s Specialties:

Implementation.

I can build it and make it work. I can also analyze it and figure out if it stands a good chance or not.

Got any good ideas - by that I mean: have you identified a customer base to support a business? If so, drop me a line.

Mike Howard’s Experience

• Owner and Chief Gofer

  Clove Technologies, Inc (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 1993 — Present (16 years 10 months)

  Clove Tech is my S-Corp. It makes no sense in this world to be a real employee or to work w/o liability protection.
  
  Get the whole scoop at http://www.clove.com.

• Vice President

  Miller/Howard Investments, Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)

  1984 — 1993 (9 years )

  Lowell and I started Miller/Howard Investments using the proverbial $3,000 each and lots of hours. Lowell still runs it and I've wandered off into the world of software consulting.
  
  The firm is doing well. You should contact them at http://mhinvest.com.
  
  Tell them I sent you.

• Co Founder

  Miller/Howard Investments, Inc

  (Computer Software industry)

  1985 — 1992 (7 years )

• Assistant Professor

  SUNY at New Paltz

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  1982 — 1987 (5 years )

  Taught beginning programming through masters level graduate courses in all aspects of Computer Science, which was funny because my degrees are in EE, emphasis in Systems, and I'd only taken a couple of CS courses. But then, the head of the Computer Center had a degree in Philosophy from Antioch, so . . .

• Programmer

  Technicon Corp

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Medical Devices industry)

  1980 — 1982 (2 years )

  Technicon Corp was sold while I was there and, after a few more transactions, is now part of Bayer.
  
  This was the first full time Programming job I had. It was an interesting change from the Defense work I previously did. I wrote my first device driver working here. Also learned Pascal

• Engineer or some such

  Rockwell Collins

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; COL; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  1979 — 1980 (1 year )

  This was Phase 2 GPS - when there were only 4 satellites in orbit and a personal GPS set weighed about 40 pounds. I was the Navigation analyst responsible for integrating the GPS system into the on-board navigation systems for six military vehicles.
  
  Part of the reason I left after a year was marital. Iowa wasn't completely too bad, but it sure wasn't New York.

• Engineering Analyst

  Sperry Systems Management

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

  1973 — 1979 (6 years )

  Sperry was swallowed up by Burrows when they bought Sperry Univac.
  
  I became an inertial navigation analyst. Sperry was the prime contractor for the Navigation Subsystem for the missile subs. While there I wrote many thousand lines of FORTRAN to analyze and simulate the errors in the navigation system. Boy am I glad I don't have to write FORTRAN any more!

Mike Howard’s Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  BE, ME, PhD , EE - emphasis in Systems , 1964 — 1972

  Activities and Societies:

  I'm ngs from Sigma Phi Epsilon. While active, I won the Ugliest Man on Campus in 1965 or 1966. I was also elected to an Engineering honorary society, but I've forgotten its name.

Additional Information

Mike Howard’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Mike Howard’s Interests:

Photography, Art, all aspects of software development, Tai Chi Chuan (been practicing over 30 years, so I'm opinionated about it), and the basic question: what is reality?

Mike Howard’s Groups:

Used to belong to IEEE and ACM, but don't any more, Refresh Phoenix & Phoenix Ruby Group

•    Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup

Mike Howard’s Honors:

I should have medals for raising kids.

Mike Howard’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch