Howard Stearns

Howard Stearns has been working in the software engineering industry since 1998. Howard began their career as the Founder of Little City Kids in Fransksville, WI, where they built a leading pre-school and day care, growing the community to over 65 families and ten employees. Howard was then a Technology Strategist at Curl, an MIT startup created by Tim Berners-Lee, where they identified and articulated technical and competitive strengths, defining product positioning, products, and demos. In 2003, they were a Consultant at Engineering Intent (now AutoDesk), supporting the company's largest sale by consulting to industry on design, implementation, and integration of 3D expert systems in engineer-to-order market. From 2004-2007, they were a Member of the Technical Staff at the University of Wisconsin and Teleplace (nee Qwaq), where they were the technical lead at UW-Madison and led the creation of the iOS enterprise app for mobile access to meetings. In 2011, they were a Senior Applications Developer @ Palm/WebOS at Hewlett-Packard and a Senior Platform Developer / Lead at TuneUp Media. From 2014-2015, they were a Senior Engineer at Shocase, where they prototyped, architected, and deployed the system with 100k projects identified and processed from the Internet. Howard is currently a Software Engineering at Linden Lab and High Fidelity, Inc., where they code in all areas of the industry-leading virtual-worlds R&D startup.

Howard Stearns attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1982 to 1987, where they earned a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a B.Sc. in Ocean Engineering.