OS X: Tiger
By Todd Howard

Todd Howard

Todd Howard, founder of Massachusetts-based multimedia production company Howard Digital Media, has conducted hundreds of hours of training seminars and one-on-one instruction on Mac OS X, Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro, as well as Adobe® PhotoShop® and GoLive®. He is the author of "GarageBand '08 Power!" and "Who's Afraid of HTML?", a comprehensive beginner's guide to HTML and website design, and was the producer/editor on the indie feature The Trouble with Boys and Girls. With website development projects, he has helped his clients achieve a web presence that is custom tailored to their specific business goals. He has worked with his clients in a fashion that encourages asking the tough questions and finding real solutions that fit and executing them with speed and fluency. Most recently, he launched a complete redesign and rebuild of the website for MASS MoCA, The Massachusetts Museum or Contemporary Art in North Adams. MASS MoCA is the largest center for contemporary arts in the United States. Todd is a daily blogger on Zoom In Online covering technology, music, TV, film and all things Apple. His training titles include "Inside Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger", "Inside iLife '06", "Dreamweaver Jumpstart", "Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Jumpstart" and "Adobe CS3: Assets In Motion", a pocket tutorial podcast series produced in conjunction with Magnet Media and Adobe, and Todd was both the author and the instructor of these in-depth training titles. Todd has worked with clients on video and DVD projects with an approach that cultivates creativity, flow, design and good story-telling. He directed and edited a series of television spots for The REACH Community Health Foundation in North Adams, MA, for their "Get Fit" campaign which have been particularly effective at connecting people in the community with REACH and its range of personal health resources. He spent 2001 and 2002 leading Apple Computer workshops and corporate training courses in Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro while based in Seattle, WA. He was head of creative services for Synchronicity/RTSe USA, Inc. from 1998-2001. Todd is a performing musician and an avid gamer, and has tremendous passion for teaching and creating with all digital media and he especially loves writing and recording his own original music with Apple's Logic Pro 8. He lives in northwestern Massachusetts.