Howard has 30+ years experience in the Information Technology field, with expertise in Java (Spring Boot webservices) relational database application development, and Spring Security. His past clients and employers include Kajeet (formerly Arterra Mobility), Oracle Corp, Bank of America, Kaiser, the New York Stock Exchange, Cardinal Health, Amgen and Union Bank.

He is the author of the Udemy courses "Introduction to Database application development with Spring Boot, Angular and Postgres" and "Security in Spring Boot REST Web Service Applications"

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of Southern California, where he played trumpet in the symphony orchestra and opera. Prior to that he played with the  Jazz orchestra Bekummernis in Paris, France.