Jason Howard

Chief Technology Officer at Cadence Bank

Greater Birmingham, Alabama Area, United States

About Jason Howard

Jason Howard is Chief Technology Officer at Cadence Bank. Location: Greater Birmingham, Alabama Area, United States.

Jason Howard is an accomplished Technology Executive with People, Process and Technology management experience leading geographically distributed organizations with over 20 years in the technology field. Technology Strategy, Architectures, Developer Transformation, Engineering and Operations experience in international banking and healthcare. Established track record of transforming technology organizations, processes and systems to align with strategic business objectives and maximizing value. Acknowledged as visionary leader with strong team building, coaching and analytical skills. Success in executing large scale, complex initiatives in complex environments. In his current role at BBVA USA, Jason's CTO organization is responsible for Architecture, Infrastructure and Communications across the USA banking Ecosystem for BBVA. He has led large real time core banking upgrades, branch transformation, digital channel development, and development of enterprise architecture program as well as leading private and public cloud infrastructure strategy. In previous roles he has developed specialization in deployment of SOA based architectures, datacenter virtualization, SAN and storage design, Citrix and thin client stacks, building digital channels for online banking and account opening, AWS solution architectures, Cloud governance, and Disaster and BRS solutions.

Skills

  • Technology Management
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Enterprise Architecture

Additional experience

  • Enterprise Director - Database Engineering and Reliability Architecture

    PNC

    October 2021 – December 2023

Education

  • Building a Customer Centric Organization, The Wharton School
  • Executive Leadership Program, Texas McCombs School of Business