About

Howard is Chief Experience Officer at Syndesis, a company bringing clinical data about all people on Earth into the world of medical research, which for over 150 years has depended solely on American and European patient data to drive all scientific and medical discovery.

Howard is also president of Heliotrope, a company focused on data experience design and immersive visualization for economics, climate science and genomics.

From 2011 to August 2019 he was a Group Creative Director at Publicis Sapient, as well as North American practice lead for data visualization at Sapient. He led projects in design and data visualization for Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, The New York Stock Exchange, Pfizer, Fannie Mae, Credit Suisse, Macquarie, Merck, and many others.

Before Sapient, he led design projects for The Museum of Modern Art, The Hermitage Museum, The History Channel, and others.

He was founder and president of Tacitus, a company focused on design and development of data visualization software for genomics. The suite of software, called Biosprockets, employed video game platforms and 3D design for biological pathway analysis. Best described as "XBox for scientists," it provided users with the capability to enter immersive digital environments in order to remotely collaborate on research focused into gene-protein interactions in disease.

As a result of his work at Tacitus, he served on two panels for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) helping to assess and award grants in visualization as applied to cancer research.

He is the author of The Ouroboros. His criticism has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, and non-fiction in the The New Yorker. His illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer and other magazines and newspapers. He has illustrated several books, including NPR’s ‘Science Friday’ host Ira Flatow’s Rainbows, Curve Balls and Other Mysteries of Science.