Brian Howell

About Brian Howell

SENIOR BUSINESS LEADER • INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE• A contributing member of the senior leadership team and IT management professional. Versed in translating business strategies into technical solutions to enable profitability and business growth. Adept at delivering large scale technology improvement initiatives including integrating mergers and acquisitions within high volume, fast paced, national and international businesses and clients.• Passionate about cultivating relationships and communicating across organizations while leading high-performance teams. Adept in leveraging disciplined approaches to influence, motivate and guide teams through challenging projects under continuous quality, cost-control, budget adherence and deadline pressures.• Proven ability to critically evaluate current and future technologies including researching, costing, justifying and purchasing within strict budget controls to provide a robust, reliable, responsive and secure infrastructure.

Experience

1. Vice President of Security, Operations and Support

   Collette

   Mar 2024 — Present · Pawtucket, RI, US

   As Vice President of Security, Operations & Support, responsible and accountable for all aspects of cybersecurity, physical security controls, infrastructure operations, and client support services across our global organization. Tasked with ensuring the organization is operating efficiently and effectively while maintaining the highest levels of security, system availability, data protection and information security for Collette’s associates world wide. Working closely with other members of the leadership team to develop and implement strategies that support the overall goals of the organization is critical while finding a balance between business goals, security priorities, privacy, regulations, and infrastructure capabilities to address security risks and maximize system availability for Collette is vital.

Education

• East Carolina University

  Industrial Technology, Computer Aided Manufacturing

  1985 — 1986

• ECPI College of Technology

  Computer Technology, Networking

  1998 — 1999

Skills

• Infrastructure
• Data Center
• Contract Management
• Configuration Management
• Storage Area Networks
• Virtualization
• Project Planning
• Supply Chain
• Sla
• Storage
• Professional Services
• High Availability
• Supply Chain Management
• System Architecture
• IT Operations
• Saas
• San
• IT Strategy
• Planning
• Contract Negotiation
• Business Development
• Disaster Recovery
• Management
• Integration
• Rfp
• Logistics
• Capacity Planning
• Vmware
• Information Technology
• Procurement
• Quality Assurance
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Brocade
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• IT Management
• Nas
• Project Management
• Provisioning