Howard Dyckoff is an IT professional with experience at Fortune 500 firms, including Chevron IT, Sybase, and Wells Fargo. He is an agile project manager and Certified Scrum Master. Now supporting projects at Open Oakland, the Code for America brigade working to open government and foster greater civic engagement Oakland, CA. His technical writing and journalism work includes Tech Target and Linux Gazette, with an emphasis on the new tech scene in Oakland via the Oakland Tribune and Oakland Local.