Rick Howington
TecAdvocates Founder/Owner
After graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology with an honors degree in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Communications, Rick worked in hardware and software on public-sector projects. This work included real-time software and hardware development for short-pulse radar systems and radar simulators. He obtained a military clearance and worked as a programmer on military communications systems, including the DOD-2167 Military Software Standards.
He then moved to the private sector, taking a network engineering position at Risk Sciences Group, a division of Crawford & Company. From there, he became a technology manager at Deloitte & Touche.
During the “dot-com” era of the 1990s, Rick joined S1, where he was part of the team for the first online bank, Security First Network Bank (SFNB). As Product Manager for the Virtual Bank Manager (VBM), S1’s online banking system and flagship product, his duties included defining product requirements based on client input and marketing strategy, communicating product content, and managing product releases.
In 2003, he started TecAdvocates Solutions, which he rebranded as TecAdvocates in 2016, where he serves as the founder/owner.
Rick enjoys working out and reading, especially science fiction and fantasy. Isaac Asimov is one of his favorite authors.