Howard Rosenthal obtained a B.Sc. in mathematics from SUNY Stony Brook in 1970. Shortly thereafter he joined the Peace Corps where he spent three years as a teacher, and also doing local construction projects. Upon completion of his time in the Peace Corps he traveled around Africa, and finally stopped in Israel. After a year of teaching, he entered the Weizmann Institute where he received an M.Sc. in Computer Science, writing his thesis on an Investigation of Distributed Multi-microprocessor With Specific Applicability to Fly-By-Wire Systems. He is also a certified Project Management Professional. He is a member of the IEEE, ACM and Program Management Institute.

After returning to the United States Howard took a job with TRW, later purchased by Northrop Grumman. During the early years he focused on Systems Engineering and Software Architectures, including an early development of an Automated Message Handling System for the Air Force. Switching for a while to Space Systems, he developed the On-board Management Systems Architecture for the Space Station, publishing a paper and participating in several skunk works on that topic. During the 90’s his interest in IT systems expanded, and he led several research projects and wrote several papers on the use of metadata-based systems in logistics. He was also involved as lead architect for several prototype architectures with medical applications. These efforts delved more deeply in data marts and data mining techniques.
During this time Howard also got more deeply involved in proposal, helping lead in the winning of multiple important opportunities that ultimately generated over a billion dollars in new business.

Howard continued to lead technology and proposal efforts, eventually leading multiple young researchers studying various aspects of mobile combat communications, including the use of INMARSAT commercial satellites in combat environments. He then worked the Transformational Satellite Management Operations System (TMOS) Proposal, bringing the concepts of metadata driven agent architectures to the ground control systems. He later assumed the role as Northrop Grumman Deputy Project Manager on that multi-billion dollar effort, before moving over to successfully manage to completion Northrop Grumman’s portion of another multi-billion dollar effort, the Joint Tactical Radio System.

Howard finished his career back in the classified world, but also had time to support some unclassified ongoing architecture develop in the area of Government Cloud Computing, in particular in partnership with Amazon.

Throughout his career Howard has been a liaison for TRW/Northrop with many important companies, efforts and standards groups. These include Sun, Oracle, HP, IBM, the National Institute of Standards and the Open Software Foundation.