Howard Gebb has over 30 years of experience in technology product management, engineering, and entrepreneurship. He has a strong background in designing complex software and leading engineering teams to develop secure and reliable products. Gebb is currently a consultant based in San Jose, California and has previously held director and senior manager roles at several technology companies.

1. Howard Gebb
howard.gebb@gmail.com 213-220-2506(m) 408-781-1358(o)
440 W. Julian Street Suite 240, San Jose CA 95110
Summary of Qualifications
I have strong entrepreneurial and team building experience and skills which has resulted in the
development of numerous efficient, reliable, secure, economical, and successful products. I am an
experienced high technology product manager and engineer with a strong background in the design of
complex and secure software products. I have broad experience working with engineering teams, sales
and marketing teams, and corporate customers. I am people-oriented and enjoy both mentoring and
learning in a team environment. I am a strong believer in using agile software development techniques,
design patterns, and object-oriented and generic programming techniques to produce reusable high-
quality code.
Experience
• Helped specify, architect and implement the IONU Security product across all popular OS
platforms.
• Using Embedded C, verified that chips developed by CPUTech (now part of Boeing) were
secure against hacker attacks. This proof was used during the sales process to aircraft
manufacturers.
• Developed a meta-language using C++ templates to composit independently developed
software libraries into the Xilinx design tool. This system had over 1.5 million lines of code.
This was credited with saving over 6 man years of development effort every calendar year.
• Managed the efforts of many disparate teams working on programming in several different
languages. Known for maintaining realistic schedules and producing high quality systems.
Known for digging in and helping out when needed.
• Developed the code for support of a variety of scripting languages and multi-threading. Lead
the teams doing this. This hid difficult and error-prone code from the vast majority of
programmers developing the system.
• Developed compilers for industry standard languages such as VHDL and Verilog. Lead the
teams responsible for customer design input.
• Developed a stock trading system based on neural-nets in the early 1990s.
Job History
• Consultant. Self Employed, San Jose, CA, 2014 – present
• Director of Software Engineering. IONU Security, Longmont, CO, 2012 – 2013
• Consulting Embedded Engineer. CPUTech, Pleasanton, CA, 2010 – 2012
• Senior Manager II. Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA, 2003 – 2008
• Senior Staff Software Engineer. Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA, 1999 – 2003
• Staff Software Engineer. DynaChip, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, 1996 – 1999
• Marketing Manager, Electric Editor, Inc., Los Gatos, CA, 1995 – 1996
• Marketing Manager, Highland Digital, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1992 – 1995
• Product Marketing Manager, Silvar-Lisco, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, 1984 – 1991
Education
• B.S.E.E., Stanford University, 1984