Hello my name is Ryan “Axe” Howe and I am from Milford, MA…
Well, well, well … lets see. I was born in California and have lived in Ohio, Connecticut, Texas, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Florida and of course California.
I graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell with a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering in 05′. I started working on a minor in Computer Science but unfortunately did not finish the requirements for the minor.
I was an E.M.T. (emergency medical technician … a.k.a. ambulance driver) for eight years in the lovely city of Lowell MA (Heroin capital of New England) with Trinity E.M.S. Inc. Though it was an eye opening experience it was a good one. You learn a lot about people and a lot of medicine working on the ambulance. While at Trinity I was able to work though the last few years of college while being a 911 dispatcher. I meet a lot of great people, and a lot of people I never want to see again. But I do miss some of the fun we had and people I had it with.
While at Trinity I got the chance to be one of the charter members of a new motorcycle club starting to branch out from Florida. Fire & Iron Motorcycle Club Station 28 started as the first Station north of Georgia back in 2004. We have gone through a lot of growing and learning but we are still going strong. I’m looking forward to a lot of fun years with the club and the guys who make it up. I moved stations to Station 60 in Rhode Island, while I lived there. And most recently I am a member of Station 128 in Blackstone Valley MA.
From Trinity I moved on to work as a Product Application Engineer and Programmer with a small company JNJ Industries in Franklin, MA. My primary responsibilities include programming support for the interoffice applications. As well as Application Engineering for new products and industries.
I went from there to working for a company in Concord, MA. OneSource Information Services where I work as a web application developer (programmer) and primarily as a Database Programmer. It’s a great job that changes every day. The group that I worked with were basically the in-house consultants. That means that we work on new projects all of the time.
After that, I worked as a senior web developer at Audit Analytics, where we primarily pulled data for publicly traded companies. Specializing in the Audit information obtained.
From there, I went to work in Boston for DealerScience after they were acquired by TrueCar as a software engineer. I was fortunate to work for a large company during COVID that was familiar with remote work and was able to keep us all on track as we pivoted the Boston office to a completely remote team.
Currently, I am a senior software engineer at Kelley & Ryan Associates.
When I am not at work, I am working on my computer, either on new programming ideas or working on my servers. Or, of course, reading away with all of my programming books … as I am a power geek! When the weather here in New England is above freezing, I try and get outside whenever I can, either on my motorcycle, camping, or out hiking.
Other than that, I have interests in photography, custom bike building, classic cars, and flying.
Anything else you’d like to know about? Then email me or connect to me on one of my social accounts, which are all on my About Me page.
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