Mary Ann Perlmuter is proud of her 19-year-old son’s many accomplishments in the business world. “Howard has ambition and drive and once he makes up his mind to do something, he does a terrific job,” she says.

Last December, Howard, a student at Ashland University, started Howard Perimuter Complete Disc Jockey Entertainment. With his mother as office manager and with the assistance of his cousin, Joe Fishman, he entertains weekends at everything from bar and bat mitzvahs to anniversary parties. He already has bookings for 1993 and 1994, he says. Howard’s younger brother, David, will soon join him in the business.

Howard has been in the music business since age 11 when he became an intern at a radio station WGCL. He did everything from pouring coffee to answering telephones. Three years later, he landed a job at WDOK/WWWE radio doing promotions and production work. He even produced a couple of Gary Dee shows.

At the age of 12 or 13, Howard met disc jockey Terry Macklin and began assisting him. “I observed and I learned,” says Howard. By the time the young entrepreneur was 16, he was doing parties by himself and running video screens and portable recording booths, under Macklin’s

For his senior project at Orange High School, Howard and his friend Bill Rainey, working 12 hours a day for weeks, produced a rap album. It was distributed locally and elsewhere in the U.S. and “sold well.”

Howard plans to go to California this summer to produce an album that will be on the market at the end of 1992. He is also designing the audio and visual components for the Color Bar Printing Center in Woodmere.

How does he do it? “I can get along on six hours of sleep and I’m good at time management,” Howard responds.

As for his future plans, the young businessman says, “Everything I have done ties into music or sound. I don’t exactly know what I am going to do, but it will be in the music industry.