Garth Howard
Owner, Chief Pilot at NorCal Aerial- Claim this Profile
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Blanca G.
Garth is a self-driven professional who has demonstrated a solution-provider attitude to deliver innovative business solutions. I managed Garth for the last 4 years of his career at Addison Avenue. I was impressed with his professionalism, creativity and initiative since I met him. He quickly became one of my technical leaders in the Online Banking Solutions team due to his leadership skills and technical knowledge. Garth would always rise to the occasion by providing innovative business solutions to overcome technical challenges. I considered him one of the most valuable employees on my team. In 2007, I fully supported Garth's opportunity to continuing growing in his career when he accepted a senior management position at ENSI. I highly recommend Garth.
LinkedIn User
I have had the distinct honor of working together with Garth on many projects. Garth played a vital role when implementing our Online Banking applications. He used his creativity to develop forward-thinking designs, tools, and have them implemented. Garth has always been a visionary and has always had the eye for innovative design. Not only did we collaborate together on many occasions, but also took the time to mentor me. I cannot say enough great things about him. We need more forward-thinking leaders such as Garth in this world who are not afraid to challenge the status quo.
Blanca G.
Garth is a self-driven professional who has demonstrated a solution-provider attitude to deliver innovative business solutions. I managed Garth for the last 4 years of his career at Addison Avenue. I was impressed with his professionalism, creativity and initiative since I met him. He quickly became one of my technical leaders in the Online Banking Solutions team due to his leadership skills and technical knowledge. Garth would always rise to the occasion by providing innovative business solutions to overcome technical challenges. I considered him one of the most valuable employees on my team. In 2007, I fully supported Garth's opportunity to continuing growing in his career when he accepted a senior management position at ENSI. I highly recommend Garth.
LinkedIn User
I have had the distinct honor of working together with Garth on many projects. Garth played a vital role when implementing our Online Banking applications. He used his creativity to develop forward-thinking designs, tools, and have them implemented. Garth has always been a visionary and has always had the eye for innovative design. Not only did we collaborate together on many occasions, but also took the time to mentor me. I cannot say enough great things about him. We need more forward-thinking leaders such as Garth in this world who are not afraid to challenge the status quo.
Blanca G.
Garth is a self-driven professional who has demonstrated a solution-provider attitude to deliver innovative business solutions. I managed Garth for the last 4 years of his career at Addison Avenue. I was impressed with his professionalism, creativity and initiative since I met him. He quickly became one of my technical leaders in the Online Banking Solutions team due to his leadership skills and technical knowledge. Garth would always rise to the occasion by providing innovative business solutions to overcome technical challenges. I considered him one of the most valuable employees on my team. In 2007, I fully supported Garth's opportunity to continuing growing in his career when he accepted a senior management position at ENSI. I highly recommend Garth.
LinkedIn User
I have had the distinct honor of working together with Garth on many projects. Garth played a vital role when implementing our Online Banking applications. He used his creativity to develop forward-thinking designs, tools, and have them implemented. Garth has always been a visionary and has always had the eye for innovative design. Not only did we collaborate together on many occasions, but also took the time to mentor me. I cannot say enough great things about him. We need more forward-thinking leaders such as Garth in this world who are not afraid to challenge the status quo.
Blanca G.
Garth is a self-driven professional who has demonstrated a solution-provider attitude to deliver innovative business solutions. I managed Garth for the last 4 years of his career at Addison Avenue. I was impressed with his professionalism, creativity and initiative since I met him. He quickly became one of my technical leaders in the Online Banking Solutions team due to his leadership skills and technical knowledge. Garth would always rise to the occasion by providing innovative business solutions to overcome technical challenges. I considered him one of the most valuable employees on my team. In 2007, I fully supported Garth's opportunity to continuing growing in his career when he accepted a senior management position at ENSI. I highly recommend Garth.
LinkedIn User
I have had the distinct honor of working together with Garth on many projects. Garth played a vital role when implementing our Online Banking applications. He used his creativity to develop forward-thinking designs, tools, and have them implemented. Garth has always been a visionary and has always had the eye for innovative design. Not only did we collaborate together on many occasions, but also took the time to mentor me. I cannot say enough great things about him. We need more forward-thinking leaders such as Garth in this world who are not afraid to challenge the status quo.
Credentials
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Commercial Pilot (ASEL)
Federal Aviation AdministrationApr, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Instrument Rating, Airplane
Federal Aviation AdministrationAug, 2017- Nov, 2024 -
Remote Pilot, UAS
Federal Aviation AdministrationMay, 2017- Nov, 2024 -
Series 7 General Securities License
FINRA
Experience
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NorCal Aerial
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United States
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Airlines and Aviation
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1 - 100 Employee
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Owner, Chief Pilot
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Mar 2017 - Present
Independent and contract pilot performing photo, video, inspection and mapping missions for a variety of industries including electric transmission and distribution, agriculture, real estate, insurance and others. Instructor pilot and check pilot for UAS/UAV including Part-107 instruction.Recent projects include:- Large electric distribution structure line inspection for SFPUC in and around Hetch Hetchy reservoir post Rim fire. - Data line structure inspection and documentation for Comcast in Napa County- PG&E Wildfire Prevention Program RPIC inspecting transmission line structures throughout Northern California through PrecisionHawk
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XOJET Aviation
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United States
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Airlines and Aviation
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200 - 300 Employee
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Flight Operations
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May 2018 - May 2020
Worked extensively with multliple aspects of a North American Part-135 Charter Operation. Collaborates with Client Service, Scheduling, Maintenance, International Operations, Crew Travel, Pilots, Safety teams to help minimize risk to scheduled flights and anticpate and avoid potential disruptions to charter operations. Intimately familiar with weather prediction, airport analysis, flight feasibility, TSA/HSIN and the national airspace system. Member of the safety review board. Worked extensively with multliple aspects of a North American Part-135 Charter Operation. Collaborates with Client Service, Scheduling, Maintenance, International Operations, Crew Travel, Pilots, Safety teams to help minimize risk to scheduled flights and anticpate and avoid potential disruptions to charter operations. Intimately familiar with weather prediction, airport analysis, flight feasibility, TSA/HSIN and the national airspace system. Member of the safety review board.
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Webzang LLC
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United States
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Financial Services
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Principal Information Technology Consultant
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Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
Leverages extensive financial industry knowledge to help clients deliver successful technology solutions and systems integrations. Works with national and local firms to deliver solutions satisfying diverse stakeholders. Manages vendor contracts and relationships to negotiate favorable project terms and deliverables for clients, improving timeliness and responsibility of all project participants. Creates and delivers reliable, objective comprehensive third-party solutions analysis to help firms choose the best, most viable solution for the client. Utilizes background in sales and marketing to drive adoption of technology applications and solutions through all levels of an organization, from executive management to field-level end users.
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Chief Information Officer
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Mar 2007 - Jul 2016
Member of the executive management team responsible for all development, testing and deployment of our industry-leading online technology platform through which over 600 licensed investment representatives at 25 bank investment programs manage the entire sales process. The application includes client management, commission reporting, asset and performance reporting, document generation, compliance, imaging and more for over 220,000 investment clients. Oversee the technology support organization, both in-house and outsourced and technical training and communications and am responsible for information security, third-party audits and risk mitigation. Manage client relationships and high level technology and integration projects from conception to completion. Research, negotiate and execute technology contracts based on short and long-term objectives. Work with CEO and board members to ensure development and technology projects support the vision and strategic objectives of the organization.
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Senior Web Applications Engineer
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Jan 1998 - Mar 2007
Rapidly advanced through the organization to arrive at the senior development role where I worked with a team to plan, design, develop and deploy a .Net-based online banking application for one of the largest national credit unions in the United States. Helped lead development team to deploy quality releases of new functionality objectives on time and under budget. Worked with functional business units to create specifications, test-plans, deployments and training for internal and external web-based solutions. Mentored junior application engineers to reach higher productivity by implementing quality, sustainable code and employing consistent documentation practices. Developed proprietary security products and worked with security vendors to help ensure the protection of client information.
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Principal, Technology Consultant
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2004 - 2007
Founded technology consulting firm to help small- and mid-size businesses create functional, well-designed revenue-driven websites to improve visibility and profitability. Took several businesses from poster/static websites to fully search-engine optimized e-commerce websites selling a variety of products including custom art, parts and high-end electronic measurement devices. Most development completed in-house; some outsourced work to hosting, e-payment and other development firms. Founded technology consulting firm to help small- and mid-size businesses create functional, well-designed revenue-driven websites to improve visibility and profitability. Took several businesses from poster/static websites to fully search-engine optimized e-commerce websites selling a variety of products including custom art, parts and high-end electronic measurement devices. Most development completed in-house; some outsourced work to hosting, e-payment and other development firms.
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Education
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1998 - 2001
Colorado State University
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration; Information Systems and Marketing
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