Albert-Howard's entire professional life has been with computing, managing several large projects in Europe with IBM, Olivetti, General Electric, and Honeywell, in the United States with Hughes Aircraft and Southern CaliforniaEdison. In Canada with BCTelephone, she directed the design of the digital provincial network, and at the University of British Columbia as Director of Networking and Telecommunications, she directed the design and implementation of a fiber backbone network for UBC.

Received from the University of Roma, Italy: a Ph.D. in Statistics applied to Computer Sciences; an MBA in Statistics, Actuarial and Demographic Sciences; and a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering. Published three books on computers and System Analysis, several articles in Italian And American magazines.

She is engaged in volunteering with several organizations both in Canada and Internationally: with the IEEE, with the CFUW (Canadian Federation of University Women), with Capilano University Foundation. At present she is the Chair of the IEEE Technical Field Awards Council and member of the IEEE Life Members Committee, the IEEE Foundation Grants Evaluation Committee and the IEEE Canada Foundation.