Curriculum Vitae

J. Cary Howell

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Professional Profile

Information technology professional eager to leverage twenty-five years of experience in technology management to secure an IT management position. Highly organized, efficient and skilled in numerous technologies and business functions.

Professional Skills

Data Centers – Networking – Applications

I have worked within the scope of entrepreneurial startups to billion-dollar publicly traded enterprises providing data center facilities planning and management, network deployment and capacity planning, enterprise resource planning, enterprise application development and implementations, and several senior level management positions with P&L responsibilities.

Protocols:: TCP/IP, Frame Relay, SONET, SNA, and X.25.
Languages:: HTML (D,X), JavaScript (OO), XML, CSS, PHP, and SQL.
Frameworks:: CodeIgniter 1.x and Symfony 1.x & 2.x (MVC), Word Press 3.x (CMS), and all UNIX tools.
Methodologies:: LAMP, DHTML, I18N, MVC, OOP, JSON, and AJAX.
Systems:: Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD.
Servers:: Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ProFTP, Bind (DNS), Exim4 (SMTP), and others.

Experience

TEXTILE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES – DALTON, GA USA
INTERNET SERVICES GROUP MANAGER

AUG. 2010 – PRESENT

TMA is a vertically integrated textile manufacturing company. I am responsible for the Customer Relationship Management application for the turf businesses as well as platform selection, design and implementation of numerous web and other software strategies for twenty-two subsidiary companies.

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INTERNET INDUSTRY STUDIES – BUFORD, GA USA
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER

APR. 2007 – AUG. 2010

IIS was a consultative practice where I was responsible for managing and implementation on numerous IT consultative projects involving software development and facilities and resource planning.

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XILOGIX – ATLANTA, GA USA
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER

SEP. 2002 – APR. 2007

Xilogix is a dedicated hosting and data center services company. I was responsible for for all aspects of the organization from sales through service delivery.

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GLOBIX (NASDAQ:GBIX) – NEW YORK, NY USA
VICE PRESIDENT PRODUCT MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE

SEP. 2000 – FEB. 2002

Globix was an Internet Service Provider with operations in Atlanta, New York, Santa Clara, and London. I was initially responsible for the Dedicated Hosting division. Later I was chosen to lead the product management team to define new products and provide end-of-life planning to out dated products.

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COMSTAR (NASDAQ:CSTX) – ATLANTA, GA USA
FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

APR. 1996 – SEP. 2000

Comstar.net was an Internet Service Provider with operations in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. As founder I was the driving force on the business plan development and all fundraising. Responsible for the startup, sales and marketing, and service delivery. At the time of the public offering, the Company was 51 employees and over $6 million in annualized revenue.

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MINDSPRING ENTERPRISES (NASDAQ:MSPG) – ATLANTA, GA USA
MANAGER, NETWORK OPERATIONS

JUN. 1994 – APR. 1996

Mindspring Enterprises was an Internet Service Provider that merged with EarthLink in 1999. I was responsible for the initial buildout of Mindspring’s dial-up network from Atlanta and West Point, Georgia to thirty two additional cities in mid-1996.

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Education

LE CORDON BLEU COLLEGE OF CULINARY ARTS ATLANTA
ASSOCIATES DEGREE IN OCCUPATIONAL SCIENCES, Summa Cum Laude (GPA 4.0)

2008 – 2009

MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

1978 – 1982

PORTERSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA

1978

Recommendations

"Cary is a very well organized manager who delivers quality products and services. He is very focused on cost management and innovation and is an excellent team leader."

2011 LinkedIn Recommendation by H. Michael Dean, Manager.

"Cary has the unique ability to quickly assess and apply effective common sense solutions to a myriad of business problems ... and the motivation to get things done, which was a pleasure to manage."

2011 LinkedIn Recommendation by Grady Donaldson, Manager.

"Cary has been a welcome and refreshing addition to our team, organizing ... executing with style. It's been a pleasure to give him my highest recommendation."

2011 LinkedIn Recommendation by Matthew Wagner, Employee.

"... Cary was a delight to work with and I'd look forward to an opportunity to work with him again."

2008 LinkedIn Recommendation by Marc Webb, Associate.

"Cary is a great leader, always fair and considerate in his decisions. A pleasure to work with and always with the customer at heart."

2006 LinkedIn Recommendation by Paul Bradbury, Employee.

"Cary's vision drove Comstar from an embryonic idea to a successful mid-tier, business-centric ISP. His ... commitment to customer service was a huge factor in the success ..."

2004 LinkedIn Recommendation by Ed Landa, Partner.

"Cary conceived and built Comstar from the ground up, turning it into the best business ISP in the Southeast..."

2004 LinkedIn Recommendation by Robbie Honnercamp, Client.

"Cary brought [his] leadership, vision, and technical prowess that provided Globix the highest-growth division within the company..."

2004 LinkedIn Recommendation by Steve Wolf, Employee.

"Cary is by far one of the smartest senior executives I've ever come across. I use many of his successes as examples..."

2004 LinkedIn Recommendation by Andrew Kraft, Associate.