Director of IT at IDC
Greater Boston Area
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- Director of IT at IDC Research
- Director of IT at IDC
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- Oracle Education Support, US at Oracle
- Designer 2000 Development Support, UK at Oracle
- European Technical Support, UK at IBM
- OS/2 TEch Support at IBM Basingstoke
- Education
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- The University of Glamorgan
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Joe Howard’s Summary
Joe Howard is the Director of IT for International Data Corporation in Framingham Massachusetts. He oversees IDC's global IT services.
During his 10 years with IDC he has consolidated, redesigned and centralized core infrastructure. Paramount, are the implementations such as Tivoli Storage Manager for disaster recovery, Zenworks desktop management globally and in 2003/2004 moving IDC into the adoption of server virtualization technologies,. This alone has proven to be one of the most successful and valuable changes made to IDC's infrastructure. Joe leads a highly technical team, capable of achieving results and improvements in times of technology investment, or when more creative solutions must be found.
Prior to joining IDC he worked for Oracle, both in the UK and US. Initially supporting the Designer 2000 Development teams in the UK and later was asked to move to Washington DC to support Oracle Education's trainers and help design a system to automatically setup training classes for use in Education centers across the US.
Joe began his career with IBM UK and graduated University with a BSc in IT.
Joe Howard’s Specialties:
Technical Management, IT Architecture, virtualization, troubleshooting, Linux, Solaris, Windows, Novell, Website design/management, server architecture, Tivoli, backup architecture, eDirectory, LDAP, Lotus Notes
Joe Howard’s Experience
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Director of IT
IDC Research
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — Present (11 years)
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Director of IT
IDC
(Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1997 — Present (11 years 8 months)
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Oracle Education Support, US
Oracle
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)
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Designer 2000 Development Support, UK
Oracle
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years)
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European Technical Support, UK
IBM
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1992 — 1993 (1 year)
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OS/2 TEch Support
IBM Basingstoke
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1992 — 1993 (1 year)
Joe Howard’s Education
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The University of Glamorgan
BSc , IT , 1989 — 1994
- Activities and Societies:
- Fencing Team, Scuba diving.
Additional Information
Joe Howard’s Websites:
Joe Howard’s Interests:
IT new technology, GTD, Camping, Canoeing, Mountain biking, Woodworking Martial Arts, Kali, Harimau ,Silat, JKD, Wing Chun and AMOK!
Joe Howard’s Groups:
Mensa, AMOK!, Martial Arts Research Institute
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Club ex-Oracle.org -
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees -
IT Specialist (20,000+ Information Technology Professionals) -
Getting Things Done (GTD) - David Allen Network of Innovators -
Martial Artists -
Strategic Use of Information Technology -
Boston SIM -
IDC Employees & Alumni -
Martial Arts Seminars and Schools Online -
The Global CIO & Executive IT Group (An MIT Sloan CIO Group) -
Society for Information Management - Connect -
Green Opportunities
Joe Howard’s Honors:
Speaker on virtualization panel at MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.
Joe Howard’s Contact Settings
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