Steve Howard Email & Phone Number

United States

Mountain View, California, US

I should have been doing this 20 years ago. I love engaging with customers to assist in changing their view of data from historic database and transient messaging. Confluent, the leading provider of Apache Kafka, enables organizations to stream events continuously with historical context to make decisions in real time. This is how organizations practically.

Columbus, OH, US

Responsible for all architecture and integration as well as management of the group. Projects included:* Ecommerce implementation* Design and implementation of Customer Data Hub using Hive, HBase, and supporting Hadoop technologies and frameworks* Oracle RMS implementation* Manhattan OMS implementation* Develop IT methodology and planning for acquisition.

Dublin, OH, US

Some of the smartest people I have ever worked with in my life are at OCLC, just pure native intelligence. My role while there was to serve as the lead production database architect for several multi-terabyte mission critical databases. I also provided lead input on capacity planning and database application design, as well as *tons* of performance testing.

Bonn, DE

I was responsible for the installation, configuration, support, and tuning of over 100 production databases varying in size from 2GB to 100GB.I also supported a 250GB Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.7 installation comprised of the AP, AR, PO, GL, and HR modules.

Nashville, TN, US

I have often said I learned more about life in three months doing this than I have at any other point. In the go-go Wall Street years, a young person coming out of college couldn't move straight into the role of a stockbroker ( I watched "Wall Street" far too many times) for a wirehouse (both old terminology, I know). The summer of my junior year, I got.

Oberlin, OH, US

I hung plants in an indoor greenhouse where it was was incredibly humid. I learned a ton about life doing this, not the least of which was humility and almost perfecting the Spanish I learned in high school. I worked with a lot of honest, hard-working people.

Brooklyn, Ohio, US

I ensured the careful and meticulous delivery of daily periodicals in print format to almost 100 customers. I braved rain, sleet, snow, and one morning in the spring of 1981, a tornado that touched down. I reluctantly collected subscription fees, which is so odd I can only blame it on youthful inexperience. No one was ever home, and this was before.

Accomplishments* Won a lot of games* Struck out a lot of battersChallenges* Everyone else reached the same growth stage I had earlier, ending my career

Took initiative by arriving early every day to set up chairs for the rest of the class, comprised of yelling five year olds.

Mba, Information Technology

Bsba, Finance