Ken Howard

Current

Adjunct Faculty - Computer Science at Southern Methodist University
Management Consultant at First United Bank and Trust
Consulting/Training at Improving Enterprises

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Past

Consultant at Penson Financial Services
Application Architect Consultant at American Airlines
Vice President Client Services; CTO at Trivac, Ltd.

Vice President, Global Sourcing at Valtech India
Vice President of Global Services at Valtech Technologies, Inc
Director, Educational Services at ObjectSpace
Director at objectspace
Instructor, Computer Science at Incarnate Word University
Project Manager at USAA

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Education

St. Mary's University
Southern Methodist University

Recommended

3 people have recommended Ken

Connections

457 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Ken Howard’s Summary

Educational consulting

E-Learning

Management consulting

Adult education

Software development

Project management

P&L management

Ken Howard’s Specialties:

International Business
Technology
Organizational Sociology
Enterprise Change Management
Learning
Project Management

Ken Howard’s Experience

Adjunct Faculty - Computer Science

Southern Methodist University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

Preparing to teach CSE 1341 in the Lyle School of Engineering at SMU starting in the Fall 2009 Semester.
Management Consultant

First United Bank and Trust

(Banking industry)

February 2009 — Present (10 months)

Helping First United's executive team enhance its technology infrastructure to allow scalability of the bank. This strategy will allow First United to grow efficiently and minimize the expense of future technology enhancements that will be required to meet the needs of its growing base of customers
Consulting/Training

Improving Enterprises

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Provide professional services, consulting, coaching, mentoring, and training in the software development field. Specialties include software architecture, project management, organizational behavior, and software development life cycle processes and artifacts.
Consultant

Penson Financial Services

(Computer Software industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Application Architect Consultant

American Airlines

(Computer Software industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Vice President Client Services; CTO

Trivac, Ltd.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; E-Learning industry)

May 2005 — April 2007 (2 years )

Through Trivac's unique patented computer based learning methodology called LIT - Lock in Thought (tm), this new company is already revolutionizing the way people learn. Through Trivac's educational consulting services, we help transform a company's education approach to effect learning in one tenth the time of traditional learning programs, possible through Trivac's unqiue LIT powered approach.

Our biggest challenge at the moment is controlling growth of our client base to ensure that we may continue to provide outstanding customer service.

When you see LIT everywhere, remember that you saw it here first!
Vice President, Global Sourcing

Valtech India

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

2003 — 2005 (2 years )
Vice President of Global Services

Valtech Technologies, Inc

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1999 — May 2005 (5 years 9 months)

Managed a Global Services Practice with software development projects at 16 clients with 250 project team members located throughout the United States and in Bangalore, India.
Director, Educational Services

ObjectSpace

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 1996 — September 1999 (2 years 11 months)
Director

objectspace

(E-Learning industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years )
Instructor, Computer Science

Incarnate Word University

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

September 1993 — December 1996 (3 years 4 months)
Project Manager

USAA

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1984 — December 1996 (12 years 7 months)

Ken Howard’s Education

St. Mary's University

MBA , Finance , 1985 — 1989
Southern Methodist University

BBA, BS , MIS, Marketing, Psychology , September 1980 — May 1984

Activities and Societies:

Mustang Band