Gary Howard
Director, R&D at Allan Consulting
Simi Valley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Howard is a hands-on R&D director with 11 years in senior leadership and a 30+ year engineering pedigree, known for delivering award-winning, patented embedded and cloud-connected medical and industrial products. He founded a boutique consultancy and has repeatedly accelerated time-to-market (up to 30%) and cut testing cycles by automating CI/CD, validation, and design history processes across global teams. Gary combines deep expertise in regulated product development—510(k)/De Novo submissions, CGMP, cybersecurity, and software CAPA—with practical systems architecture for electromechanical devices, infusion pumps, and telemetry platforms. He has led distributed Agile, DevOps, and DevSecOps organizations across Europe, India, Israel, and the U.S., harmonizing global platforms and cutting testing time by >90% in one program. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex regulatory and technical constraints into streamlined, auditable development practices that reliably ship compliant products. An inventor and systems integrator at heart, he blends early real-time control experience with modern cloud-native automation to drive measurable business and quality outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Information Technology, Masters Computer Information Technology at Regis University
Github Skills (73)
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neovim-plugin10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Traap/vim-dragvisuals
Aug 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
Traap/docbld
Jun 2017 - May 2022
Compile LaTeX files into pdf documents using Rake and latexmk.
Contributions:24 commits, 6 PRs, 23 pushes in 5 years
rakepdfpdf-documentscompilelatex
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