Past Experience

 

Pacific Coast Software

San Diego, CA. 4/95 - 9/1999 (merger with Smith Micro)

Co-founder and Vice President, Engineering


  1. ✦Coordinated merger with Smith Micro Software, leading to 1600% stock price increase within 5 months (largest stock market share price increase in Smith Micro's history)

  2. ✦Managed cross-platform development team of Windows, Macintosh, and Unix engineers

  3. ✦Wrote Typhoon™: cross-platform dynamic web page tool incorporating WebDNA language

  4. ✦Conceptualized, invented, and wrote WebCatalog™, the fastest multithreaded web database and dynamic publishing tool for Macintosh, Windows 95/98/NT, and Unix (Solaris, Linux, MacOSX Server)

  5. ✦Conceptualized, invented, and wrote WebMerchant™, complete off-the-shelf solution for eCommerce on the web,

  6. ✦Invented WebDNA™, the language embedded in WebCatalog, WebMerchant, and Typhoon

  7. ✦Wrote PhotoMaster™: image database and web photo gallery tool

  8. ✦Conceptualized, invented, and wrote SiteEdit™: update HTML pages remotely with any web browser

  9. ✦Created Graphics on Call™: Completely automated stock photography web site

  10. ✦WebMaster for Jammin Designer: web site that creates custom sportswear clothing designs on-the-fly

  11. ✦Wrote Nikon PhotoBrowser™: graphical image database and management tool

  12. ✦Co-wrote Custom Carpet Visualization and Sales system for Bentley Mills, Inc.

  13. ✦Co-wrote Custom Sports Apparel designer and web site for Jammin, Inc.


GUI Dude Software

San Marcos, CA. 11/93 - 4/95

Owner


  1. ✦Created several Macintosh software products on a program-for-hire basis, including:

  2. ✦Image Library software for Nikon Systems, Inc.

  3. ✦Custom Carpet Visualization and Sales system for Bentley Mills, Inc.

  4. ✦Custom Sports Apparel designer for Jammin, Inc.

  5. ✦Membership database for San Diego Zoo


Imspace Systems Corporation

San Diego, CA. 04/92 - 11/93

Senior Macintosh Architect


  1. ✦Created product concept, feature definition, user-interface design, and aesthetics for Kudo© Image Browser™, a multimedia database image-cataloging utility,

  2. ✦Wrote final application code (concept to shipping product in 10 months),

  3. ✦Invented "Drag and Place™", a method of dragging information from Kudo's windows into a separate running application's windows,

  4. ✦Implemented full AppleScript Object Model support in five weeks,

  5. ✦Created single code stream capable of supporting Japanese, German and French localized versions,

  6. ✦Working with Evangelists, obtained a section of Apple's booth for Imspace demonstrations at several major trade shows worldwide


Mountain Network Solutions, Inc.

San Diego, CA. 12/89 - 04/92

Software Project Manager


  1. ✦Created product concept, feature definition, user-interface design, and aesthetics for FileMan™, a Network Data Management product (the first of its kind),

  2. ✦Managed a team of three programmers to produce the user interface portion of a 170,000 line C++ application,

  3. ✦Wrote 13,000+ lines of final application code which is cross-platform compatible,

  4. ✦Working with three other project managers, achieved engineering goal to create a "software factory, with reusable components and compatibility with Windows 3.0, Macintosh, DOS, and NeXT",

  5. ✦Achieved marketing department1s goal to create a "pizazz-filled, highly visual, direct-manipulation graphical environment that actually makes tape backup fun!"


Mission Accomplished Software Services, Inc.

Los Angeles, CA. 6/85 - 12/89

Vice President of Research and Development


  1. ✦Created, marketed, and sold the following products for Macintosh and PC:

  2. ✦Psych*log™: office management for mental health care professionals,

  3. ✦Mail*Dex™: an electronic rolodex with phone dialing and envelope printing,

  4. ✦Net*Dex™: a network version of Mail°Dex™,

  5. ✦Real Estate Genie™: property management software.

  6. ✦Tempest Tester: radio noise radiation shielding test software


Questar Consulting

Los Angeles, CA. 1982-1985

Principal, Senior Programmer


  1. ✦Federal Reserve Board Funds Tracking Program,

  2. ✦Electronic Art's Murder on the Zinderneuf™: a video game for Commodore 64. Published internationally, it received Game of the Year Award 1985,

  3. ✦Know How™ series: an educational syllabus of 10 games,

  4. ✦Cheap Thrills™ series: 25 video games,

  5. ✦Friendly Bytes™: animated Christmas card novelty for Apple Computers


Offshore Technology Corporation, Escondido, CA. 1979-1981

Programmer/Data Reductionist


  1. ✦FORTRAN Ship Simulation user interface for Arco

  2. ✦Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Simulation Controller

  3. ✦Tektronix 4051 automated Graphing Software

  4. ✦Assembly-Language Apple ][ FFT (Fast Fourier Transform)


Education


  1. ✦1993-Basic Image Understanding: San Diego SPIE Conference Short Course

  2. ✦1991-User Interface Strategies '92 satellite video conference

  3. ✦1991-C Project Management

  4. ✦1986-University of California, Los Angeles B.S. Computer Science and Engineering


Training, Certificates, and Public Events


  1. ✦1999-Trainer, "WebDNA Programming", Smith Micro Software

  2. ✦1999-Exhibitor, "eCommerce Web Software", Spring Internet World '99.

  3. ✦1997-Conference Faculty, MacWorld Expo

  4. ✦1996-Speaker, "eCommerce on MacOS", Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference

  5. ✦1996-Speaker, "Tools for Web Development", WebEdge IV.

  6. ✦1996-Speaker, "Tools for Web Development", Mactivity/Web Conference. Highest audience rating of all speakers.

  7. ✦1995-Speaker, "Tools for Web Development", WebEdge III.

  8. ✦1995-Exhibitor, "Pacific Coast Software", Seybold San Francisco.

  9. ✦1989-California Community College Teaching Certificate for Art, Design, and Photography

  10. ✦1989-MacroMind Director, Certified Instructor

  11. ✦1988-Interleaf Publisher, Certified Instructor

  12. ✦1987-Apple Certified Level 1 Service Technician

  13. ✦1987-Apple Desktop Communication Certificate


Since 1980, Grant has written the following commercial software products:

  1. ✦Remote Director versions 2, 3 and 4: virtual soft proofing by ICS

  2. ✦Lasso Professional 5: web database middleware server-side scripting product by Blue World Communications

  3. ✦WebCatalog versions 1, 2, 3, and 4: the fastest web database, eCommerce, and dynamic publishing tool, by Smith Micro Software

  4. ✦WebMerchant versions 1, 2, 3, and 4: complete off-the-shelf solution for payment processing on the web

  5. ✦PhotoMaster: image database and web photo gallery tool

  6. ✦SiteEdit: update HTML pagess remotely with any web browser

  7. ✦BeyondRealms: Industrial-Strength Web Server Security

  8. ✦Nikon PhotoBrowser: graphical image database and management tool

  9. ✦Custom Carpet Visualization and Sales system for Bentley Mills, Inc.

  10. ✦Custom Sports Apparel designer and web site for Jammin, Inc.

  11. ✦Membership database for San Diego Zoo

  12. ✦Kudo Image Browser: multimedia database image-cataloging utility

  13. ✦FileMan: network data management product

  14. ✦Psych*log: office management for mental health-care professionals

  15. ✦Mail*Dex: electronic rolodex desk accessory

  16. ✦Federal Reserve Board funds tracking software

  17. ✦Real Estate Genie: property management software

  18. ✦Murder on the Zinderneuf: video game for Electronic Arts (Commodore 64)

  19. ✦Archon: video game for Electronic Arts (IBM PC)

  20. ✦KnowHow: educational syllabus of 10 games

  21. ✦Cheap Thrills: series of 25 video games

  22. ✦Friendly Bytes: animated Christmas card novelty for Apple ][

  23. ✦Ship Simulator: user interface for Arco's ship simulations

  24. ✦Simulation Controller: for Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant