Howard Osborne
Deputy Director, Office Of Financial Management Systems (Senior Executive Service) at Minority Business Development Agency - U.S. Department of Commerce
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolHoward Osborne is a seasoned senior executive with over a decade of experience leading financial management, program transformation, and IT modernization across federal agencies, currently serving as Deputy Director for Financial Management Systems at the Department of Commerce. He has held multiple SES roles including CFO positions at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and EPA, and has led financing operations and comptroller functions at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, demonstrating a rare blend of policy, finance, and operational delivery. His background includes private-sector strategy work at IBM and technical contributions to open-source tooling—enhancing Locust load-testing plugins—showing he remains hands-on with engineering practices. A retired Air Force lieutenant colonel with advanced degrees in management, military operations, and a DBA in progress, he excels at driving complex, auditable transformational programs across large organizations. Known as a pragmatic change agent, he pairs strategic vision with measurable execution, often reconciling legacy systems with modern financial controls and analytics. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he brings disciplined leadership and cross-sector perspective to public financial management challenges.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Management, Master's degree, Management at Troy UniversityDoctorate of Business Administration (DBA), Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) at Drexel University's LeBow College of BusinessMaster's degree, Military Operations, Master's degree, Military Operations at USAF Air Command and Staff CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics at Grambling State University
Github Skills (8)
loadtest10
locust10
load-testing10
python10
apidoc9
api9
regular-expression8
cicd4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SvenskaSpel/locust-plugins
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
A set of useful plugins/extensions for Locust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 20 commits, 9 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Howard primarily contributed to the development of a plugin for Locust, a load testing tool. Their work involved creating classes and methods to manage embedded resources within HTML responses. The user implemented functionalities for filtering, caching, and gathering statistics for these resources, which enhances the capabilities of the load testing tool. Further contributions include refactoring, adding a transaction manager, and integrating with worker-master setups for more robust testing scenarios.
extensionslocust
howardosborne/howardosborne.github.io
Feb 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:5 PRs, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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