Howie is one of the leading providers of SAP E-Sourcing and Contract Lifecycle Management implementation services in the United States and Europe. Having brought Frictionless’ first customer live in 2001 on version 1.0 of the Frictionless Sourcing product, Howie has been leading SAP E-Sourcing and CLM projects longer than anyone in the world, and has built the methodology and toolset upon which SAP based their current methodology with which they deliver their own services.
Customers from around the globe, including SAP itself, call on Howie for his cross-functional and technical expertise in the SAP E-Sourcing application. Howie has led and delivered highly integrated solutions for some of the world’s corporate leaders, including Nestlé, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bell Helicopter, Peabody Energy, Tesoro/Andeavor, Kodak, Sprint Nextel, Dolby, UCB Pharma, Aetna, Heinz, We Energies, General Motors, Valero, Novartis, Philip Morris USA, Intuitive Surgical, Bloomberg, Northeast Utilities, Compass Group, Colgate, Kiewit, Grainger and Verizon. In the past twenty one years, he pioneered many technical firsts in the Frictionless world, including the first automated serial/parallel workflow (with escalation, delegation and ad-hoc approvals), the first sell-side contract integration with SAP SD, the first Ariba Catalog integration, the first distributed Single Sign-on deployment, the first fully-integrated solution with Salesforce.com, and the first E-Sourcing to Autonomy (instead of T-Rex) full text search integration. His extensive knowledge of the SAP Sourcing API and the underlying architecture make the possibilities endless. Howie also helped to define the technical and business requirements for integrating SAP E-Sourcing with SRM that has now become the standard integration adapter shipped by SAP.
With an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Finance from Babson College, and a Masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, Howie provides the uniquely-combined ability to truly understand how a business requirement can significantly impact the technical implementation of that requirement and vice versa.