The IT Professionals Group

The IT Professionals Group is a full-service Information technology consultancy for small and mid-sized businesses and professionals. Every engagement is different, but one principal remains constant: the pursuit of maximum benefit to the client at minimum risk, for the lowest end-to-end cost. Howard Katz is President of The IT Professionals Group.... Trained as a Professional Engineer, Howard is strategically oriented systems professional. He brings strengths in a broad range of application areas and technologies. Howard has both strategic vision - and the ability to implement the vision. Some areas of focus include: QuickBooks implementation and integration with legacy systems (Howard is a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor) Microsoft infrastructure development, deployment and support (Howard is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) Application development using VB, MS Access, SQL Server, Java technologies and Lotus Notes/Domino (Howard is a Principal CLP in Domino Development) Email implementation and integration using MS Exchange/Outlook, Office 365, Gmail and Lotus Notes/Domino VOIP solutions based on Asterisk/FreePBX. Howard has worked in a variety of industries, and has developed expertise in a wide range of application areas, including: Accounting Systems Retail / Point-of-Sale Activity-Based Costing Customer Relationship Management Project Management Systems Integration Business Intelligence From 1984 until 2000, Howard focused on the needs of larger organizations, completing many engagements in diverse areas such as Lotus Domino development, Activity Based Costing, MS Access / Visual Basic development, and Project Management for both infrastructure deployments and application development projects. A partial list of companies he has worked for includes: Bell Sympatico / Bell Nexxia Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants CCH Canadian Ltd. Ontario Hydro Energy Services Group Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board PacifiCorp Toyota Motor Credit Corporation Starting in 2001, Howard refocused his practice ...Read More