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Exton, PA-based Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers has Appointed Daniel Howard as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
SCTEs Mission—Providing technical leadership for telecommunications industry and serving its members through excellence in professional development, standards, certification, and information. SCTE•ISBE is proud to serve as the technical and applied science leader for the cable telecommunications industry. Since its beginning in 1969, the Society has been dedicated to providing meaningful resources and programs for its members and the industry. From industry-wide initiatives to create more efficient operations to technical training programs on the latest technologies to job aids to assist field personnel in their everyday responsibilities, SCTE•ISBE has programs and benefits for every professional level in the industry. The Societys Boots to Suits philosophy is designed to not only enhance the careers of technical employees throughout the network, but also provide operators with a well-trained workforce that, ultimately, means a more efficient system, economic benefits and an improved customer experience.
About the Person
As Senior Vice President, Engineering and Chief Technology Officer of SCTE, Daniel Howard is responsible for driving the technical leadership and innovation that is helping the industry to reduce costs, optimize network performance and enhance customer satisfaction. Howard, who co-founded and served as CTO of Broadcom acquisition Digital Furnace, is a veteran of two decades in the cable and technology sectors. Since joining SCTE in 2010, he has significantly expanded the scope of the organization’s Professional Development program, accelerated the development of Standards for energy management, video quality and other areas, and helped to enhance the quality and quantity of educational offerings at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo and other industry events. A leader in recognizing the potential of IP technology for cable system operators, Howard co-authored the industry’s DOCSIS 1.1 and 2.0 specifications, and while with Broadcom was a lead inventor on the company’s primary DOCSIS 3.0 patent. Additional contributions include the development of broadband growth models for cable system networks, evaluation of such new technologies as IPTV and Synchronous CDMA (SCDMA), and the writing of more than 50 articles, reports and international technical specifications. Prior to co-founding Digital Furnace in 1998, Howard spent eight years as senior research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, where he co-founded and served as associate director of the Broadband Telecom Center. During five years with Digital Furnace and as technical director with Broadcom, he developed Digital Furnace’s technology for reducing bandwidth requirements of telephony and video over cable and provided leadership in Broadcom’s work with S-CDMA and Advanced TDMA (ATDMA). Howard also has served as president and CEO of Quadrock Communications, an interactive television startup; as a systems architect with Motorola; and most recently as CTO of VQLink, a developer of advanced digital video quality measurement and monitoring technology. In addition, he has created and taught a graduate class at Georgia Tech on cable telecommunications technology and has been a consultant for the Atlanta Public Schools system on classroom thin client computer architectures and teacher training in the Linux operating system and applications. Howard holds a BS in Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech.
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