21^st Century Career Revolutions

Dewey D. Howell

Dr. Dewey Howell is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Design Clinicals, a medical software company.  He is primarily responsible for the design and development of DC’s products, and has been instrumental in establishing strategic partnerships, developing new clients and marketing DC’s products.

Dr. Howell earned both a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) and Doctorate of Medicine (MD) at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.  His PhD work was in the field of Immunology.

During his Family Medicine residency, Dr. Howell began to design and develop software.  He started by creating Patient Pilot, a program that enhanced the communication between residents managing hospitalized patients.  Dr. Howell saw a clear improvement in the quality of patient care after Patient Pilot was introduced.  He was inspired by this observation to continue to design and develop software to meet the many needs of providers in both the hospital and clinic.  Shortly after graduating from his residency, he founded Design Clinicals to continue the design and development of software to improve provider communication.

Dr. Dewey Howell’s experience as physician, actively admitting, managing and discharging patients from the hospital, combined with his programming expertise make him uniquely qualified to lead DC in its efforts to design relevant, functional, and easy-to-use hand-held and web-based software programs.

Victor A. Sweberg

Acting Vice President & Director, Network Centric Operations Programs & Technologies (NCO P&T)

Current Assignment:  Vic leads an organization responsible for some of Boeing’s network centric operations (NCO) capabilities, new business pursuits and programs.  He reports to the VP, Integrated Defense & Security Solutions (IDSS) within the Advanced Systems organization.  Vic has over 22 years with Boeing and has been with NCO P&T since January 2002.

As the leader of NCO P&T, he is responsible for implementing and capturing key NCO programs. His organization develops integrated capabilities and solutions, conducts marketing and sales, develops proposals, executes the early phases of programs, and transitions programs to other business units prior to the production phase. NCO P&T is based in Puget Sound, with personnel of the organization also in Huntington Beach, Mesa, Anaheim, Huntsville, Virginia, and Stockholm.

In addition to his Director role for NCO P&T, Vic is the Acting Director of Information Assurance for IDSS, and is the IDSS leader for the Program Management/Business Excellence function.  He recently served on the Phantom Works Puget Sound Leadership Team, the Integrated Defense Puget Site Enterprise Council, and the Executive Committee of the Puget Sound Site Community Relations Council, which he is still active on.   He also recently was the Vice President, Boeing Commercial Information and Communications Company, a subsidiary of Boeing focused on commercial applications of information and communications technology.

Vic has held a variety of assignments in Program Management, Strategy and Business Development throughout his career, involving DoD, commercial, and international programs.  He has held assignments on the International Space Station, satellite programs including a cooperative effort with Russian companies, a satellite-based agricultural remote sensing joint venture, and developed several payloads that flew successfully on the Space Shuttle.  He has had some non-traditional activities within Boeing, including signing a contract with Coca Cola, project lead for the Space Biosphere Ventures life support research facility in Arizona, and a variety of international projects (Sweden, Brazil, Russia).  He has previously been a member of a technical committee of AIAA and was the Boeing Board member on three University-led Centers for the Commercial Development of Space.  Very recently, Vic was selected as the first Boeing member and Fellow of the American Leadership Forum (Tacoma/Pierce County Chapter), an organization of community, business and government senior leaders dedicated to Leadership, Diversity, and Community Involvement. 

Richard Law

Richard is the President/CEO & Founder of Allyis (pronounced “ah-LY-us”) and has led Allyis since its inception in 1996 and is responsible for long-range planning, risk and opportunity assessment, and board governance. His prior leadership experience includes management roles in the publishing, entertainment, and service industries, as well as experience at all levels of Internet development and management.

Richard was recently recognized by the Puget Sound Business Journal as one of the “40 Under 40” up-and-coming business professionals to watch and was named Best Executive in the 2006 American Business awards.  Along with his senior management team, Richard has helped Allyis earn numerous honors, including being named one of the “Best Companies to Work For” by Washington CEO magazine and one of the “25 Best Places to Work” by Seattle Metropolitan magazine.

Richard holds an M.A. from Western Washington University.

Dr. Mike Hanson

Moderator

Dr. Michael Hanson obtained a B.S. in Agriculture from the University of Nebraska, a Ph.D. in Botany from Claremont Graduate University and Post-Doctoral research positions at the University of Minnesota and Cornell University. His specific interests are in symbiotic interactions, especially domestication of humans by plants and animals and vice versa. Due to these interests, he has taught numerous interdisciplinary courses at Elmira College, SUNY-Empire State College and Bellevue Community College utilizing the learning community model. Michael is not a self-made man: he benefits from the waste products of photosynthetic organisms and the storage products and bodies of plants, animals and fungi, encourages alimentary bacterial growth and eyebrow mite habitation, and derives pleasure from the assistance and friendship of other life forms, including humans.