Travis Howle

Twenty-two years’ software engineering and technology team leadership, as well as individual contribution as principal architect.

Focus on remote team management, managing aspects of technology to optimize footprint and spending, while empowering cross-functional teams to succeed with digital product development and operation. Provided engineering efforts on systems in a varying spectrum from startup new product inceptions to EA’s Battlefield 2 communication systems, the US Census Bureau’s logistics systems, the US Department of Energy’s IT network, and the FBI’s lead tracking systems.

• Supporting multiple high-caliber and cross-functional global teams to build a state-of-the-art CVML platform focusing on extending automation capabilities, as well as building a comprehensive MLOps platform to promote the adoption and advancement for the production operationalization of advanced analytics and enterprise data machine learning within the data platform & tools group at John Deere World Headquarters.

• Vast experience in digital product strategy building, product and engineering team building and management, as well as all-encompassing project management.

• Managed multi-million Dollar engineering and product budgets, as well as large cross-functional internal and external teams to deliver digital products.

• Non-technology diversified background as a certified firefighter and emergency medical practitioner at both an ARFF airport environment, and government-led county dispatch; vast experience in agriculture, leveraging technology to empower sustainability from engineering to hands-on farming practices.

• Vast experience in video gaming and esports industry focused on digital product definition, planning, execution, and operation.