I leverage my knowledge of agile software development, DevSecOps, automated testing solutions, and the evolving space of Artificial Intelligence to drive additional revenue for Techwell's industry leading software testing and AI conferences. In addition to driving Event and Sponsorship sales, I match clients with the appropriate Media and Syndication solutions to achieve their goals for obtaining viable leads that contribute to Sales productivity and tangible business outcomes.

In an expanding professional role, I am combining my career success in capturing new sales and acquiring exceptional technical talent as a Business Development Consultant at Coveros. Our team of engineers boasts expertise in Security, Testing, and Automation methods and tools that produce real results for clients.My passion is working with individuals to understand their organizational needs and to provide options for solving those gaps with the right combination of training, coaching, and consulting services. When you seek degreed engineers with real world experience to collaborate with your team and to advance your goals, we engage and thrive. Under our TechWell brand, Coveros hosts four conferences each year which have facilitated thought leadership and industry engagement in Agile, DevOps, AppSec, and Testing for over 30 years. With our wealth of knowledge and connections, we can scale a solution that fits your organization ideally!

Coveros offers professional services, training/certification courses, coaching, and conferences and events in Testing, Agile Transformation, DevOps, and Application Security (DevSecOps). My role is to find the best talent nationwide to deliver superior services and products to our corporate and individual clients. I collaborate with candidates to discern whether or not their technical background, communication skills, and interests align with Coveros' culture and our career opportunities.The challenges that I meet include supporting diverse hiring needs which include finding computer software professionals to shape and to deliver both public and private training and coaching engagements. I also fulfill ongoing needs for consultative software engineers to support automated QA testing, performance testing, agile transformation efforts, and DevOps architecture and engineering engagements. In support of the ongoing expansion of our service offering, I facilitated the hiring of five DevSecOps professionals in the first half of 2022. Additionally, I supported filling three key marketing roles, easing the organizational workload as we returned to in-person conference events in 2022, following COVID.

At UberEther, growing intelligent teams who rise to meet the changes of the fast-moving cyber security industry drives my day. I support business leaders who enable technologists to do good work and build cool solutions. Our long-term view of your future promotes training, industry participation, and organic projects that propel you forward as a professional. Opportunities exist for experienced developers, project leads, and business analysts with (and without) Identity and Access Management experience. Connect with me on LinkedIn or send me an InMail to start a conversation and learn more.

For surge hiring needs and critical searches, partner with a firm that cares about the success of your business. Numa Talent and Elena Howard know the importance of connecting you with motivated, experienced talent that will add immediate organizational value. With an excellent network of technical talent in multiple markets, we turn search needs for software engineers, network professionals, implementation consultants, and more into satisfied employees and hiring managers.Searches target professionals for hard-to-fill technical roles requiring up to a TS SCI FSP clearance.

Elena supports Sila Solutions Group's expanding talent needs in the mid-west and eastern United States. With a proactive eye on the talent market, Elena invites connections with experienced management consultants who possess expertise in IT Strategy, Information Security, Data Management and Analytics, and more. Cyber Security Industry focus with specialization in Identity and Access Management and Privileged Access Management Solutions, Information Assurance, data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Sourced, vetted and placed software implementation architects, engineers, project managers, business analysts and more in roles aligned with commercial, federal and intelligence sectors to meet business needs.

In her role as Senior Account Executive, Elena leads Sales for Winston Harbor with more than seven years of full lifecycle recruiting experience. Always driven to achieve positive results for her clients, Elena contributes first-hand knowledge from different markets and industries. Before transitioning to a career in recruiting, Elena gained broad experience creating information solutions for customers in the Finance, Healthcare, Legal, and Federal markets. She now leverages her diverse industry experience and advanced knowledge of Information Technology to identify and to advance the critical talent interests of her client companies and to engage candidates with career advancing opportunities that match their passion and interests.

Elena supported retained searches for real-time embedded software engineers as a technology recruiter focused on placing cleared professionals with highly specialized skill sets. Additional successes included placing high value business development, sales, and sales engineering professionals in both Federal and Commercial market opportunities for rapidly expanding professional service companies and for software firms with a focus on Big Data, Data Analytics, and telecommunications.

As a member of Sprint's Government Systems Division, Elena consistently ranked in the top 5 of 35 Client Executives supporting Federal Civilian Agencies. Elena's achievements included establishing and executing a strategy for wireless and wireline data and voice solutions for select civilian agencies. Among her most notable wins was the five-year, $600M telecommunication services and hardware contract in 2002 as a member of the FTI team. She leveraged relationships from this win to grow revenue through the nationwide sale of additional portfolio products to include IP network services and wireless data and voice services, adding approximately $10M in annual recurring revenue. (Emphasis from 2002-2007 was on the DOT and FAA, implementing and growing the FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) Program as a partner with Harris GCSD out of Melbourne, FL.) Elena's early successes at Sprint included sales to the Department of Energy to include the Naval Nuclear Power Network, the Earth Sciences Network, and the Department of Energy Network (ESNET and DOENET). She also implemented and supported the Consolidated Space Operations Contract at NASA. Elena worked collaboratively with multiple, large systems integrators, nationwide.Sprint President's Club Trip Winner: 2000, 2005, & 2006; 100% Club 6 of 8 Years between 1999 and 2007. Winner 2006: Eagle Award - Highest Division Recognition for Sales Excellence within the Government Systems Division

Regional Sales Manager for Mid-Atlantic and Southeast territories. Elena oversaw 13 sales representatives, largely in remote locations from Baltimore to Miami, during a rapid expansion period where over 60 businesses were acquired and merged into the organization. Representatives from different firms were assimilated and trained successfully to sell the corporation's off-site indexing, storage, and retrieval information services while a unified, national sales organization became established. Elena's additional accomplishments include the successful implementation of SalesLogix, the company's first CRM system. The sales team under her direction ranked in the top 2 nationally both years.Elena collaboratively developed and marketed the company's first GSA Technology Schedule for off-site storage and retrieval services for hard-copy and electronic records. Winning the first large Federal Government Agency contract, she established the foundation for an expanding division within the firm that thrives today.

Following success as an individual sales contributor achieving increasing success as a repeat President's Club winner in the Greater Denver Area, Elena was transferred and promoted to lead the Mid-Atlantic Healthcare Sales Team out of UARCO's Philadelphia, PA office. There she led a district sales team with flagship accounts which included The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Christiana Healthcare network of hospitals. Relocating to the DC Metro area as the Regional Sales Manager for the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast healthcare markets, Elena oversaw sales to large systems, among them: Johns Hopkins, George Washington University, INOVA Health, Winchester Medical Center, and Carolina's Medical in Charlotte, NC. Through consultative sales our specialized knowledge of form systems redesign optimized organizational workflow for information processing and for storage and retrieval efficiencies. Additional expertise included applying JIT inventory management to minimize on-hand inventory and maximize hospital cash-flow and inventory turns.President's Club wins: 6 of 8 years eligible; Quota achievement 100%+ every year.