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Howard Dodd
Sr Director Analyst
Howard Dodd is a Senior Director, Analyst in the Software Engineering practice. He helps Software and senior technology leaders create strategies to manage and reduce technical debt while modernizing their enterprise applications and systems. He specializes in integrating concepts from enterprise architecture, software development, application architectures and software economics into application strategies.
Previous experience
Howard has led innovation, software engineering and enterprise architecture teams that developed and delivered critical business functions.
He has led teams through building investment portfolios, workforce design, application management and integrating innovation processes into agile environments.
Professional background
Minnesota Revenue, Application Manager - Tax systems, IT Operations, 5 years
Prime Therapeutics, Enterprise Architect, InnovationLab Leader, 12 years
Thrivent Financial, Enterprise Architect - Agent Systems, BPM, Applications, 2 years
Areas of coverage
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Software Engineering Leadership
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Software Engineering Technologies
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Software Engineering Practices
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
Develop strategic approach to application modernization
Devising strategies for effective usage of technologies to drive application modernization, manage technical debt and accelerate cloud migration
Develop approach for managing technical debt in complex software portfolios
Enterprise architecture for agile and traditional delivery models
Applying innovation methods to increase value delivery