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Tim Howes serves as Chief Technology Officer of Opsware, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPSW), the leading IT Automation software provider. Prior to co-founding Opsware, Mr. Howes was Vice President of Technology for America Online, Inc., where he worked on technology strategy, acquisitions and investments. Before that, he was Chief Technology Officer of Netscape's Server Products division and was Chief Architect of several Netscape server products. Howes co-invented the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), the Internet standard for directories. He has co-authored two books on directories and has written or co-written over 20 Internet Request For Comments (RFCs). Howes is a former member of the Internet Architecture Board and former co-chair of several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups. Before joining Netscape, Howes was a researcher and National Science Foundation Project Director at the University of Michigan. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. | 