HOWARD YOUNG

Diverse background with more than 25 years experience in Software and System Engineering. An expert in Inertial Navigation Systems, GPS, Fibre Channel and Storage technology, Worked for both large and small corporations, including two start ups. At smaller corporations, I often traded in my “Engineering hat” in for Copywriter, Proposal and Marketing Manager. I'm A firm believer in process improvement, optimization and artifact automation.

For the past ten years, I was primarily engaged at Troika Networks — later acquired by QLogic and then by LSI — to develop SAN Virtualization Storage Applications. I have authored and co-authored many pending storage patents.

In 2002, I founded ClknGo (“Click and Go”) Software Corporation to bridge the gap between low-bandwidth hand held devices and high-speed networks. Wrote several SBIR proposals offering solutions to the DoD to resolve bandwidth and network accessibility issues and currently serve as President and is on the Board of Directors for this Corporation.

In 2005, I entered a full-time consulting position at ITT Industries to spearhead the completion of the SINCARS Embedded GPS Receiver SAASM software development. I was instrumental in optimizing GPS acquisition algorithms by 10x to meet a stringent time to first fix requirement in under 30 seconds. I served as consultant to top management for new product direction including ground-breaking work on GPS III.