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Dale John McGrew
www.DaleMcGrew.com
DaleMcGrew@yahoo.com
mobile 415-516-8777
 

 
Objective
To find a contract, part-time or full-time position which utilizes my web engineering or technical project management skills and experience.
 
 
Experience
 
Golightly Community Tools Web Engineer
Berkeley, California
Nov 2000 to present
Building standard and database-driven web applications for a variety of corporate and non-profit clients. Sites built include database connectivity (MySQL and PHP4), login, image upload with storage and manipulation (PHP4, Linux and HTML), style sheets (HTML with CSS), and cross-browser support (HTML and JavaScript). Unix development environment includes Linux, Apache and PHP4. Windows development environment includes Dreamweaver 4, Fireworks 4, Photoshop 5 and the PHPEd IDE.
Frogdesign, inc. VP Production
San Francisco, California
Nov 1999 to July 2000
Responsible for planning and hiring development team necessary to create a business-to-business product-making portal for the design and manufacturing industry. frogdesign acquired Gravity in November 1999 in order to launch a new division built to leverage frogdesign's three decades of industrial design authority and revolutionize the way consumer products are designed, manufactured, and brought to market.
Gravity, Inc. Co-founder and Executive Producer
San Francisco, California
Dec 1992 to Oct 1999
Managed the production of interactive 3D graphics technology and content for game products and advanced technology demonstrations. Gravity's clients/partners over its seven-year history included Intel, IBM, NTT, Gtech, Whowhere/Lycos, Disney, Grolier, SGI, Acer and Microprose. Gravity grew to 28 full-time employees and 7 regular contract positions.
 
In charge of hiring and management of twenty-person production group and three-person operations/finance group. Executive Produced or Senior Produced over $4,000,000 worth of projects through two major industry booms and busts. Responsible for up to $400K monthly cash flow. Worked frequently as client contact. Solved technical problems through experience with the medium and by getting experts from various parts of the team to talk to each other.
 
Raised series A and B investment rounds of $1.5 million as part of three-person management team. Member of same management team during negotiation and closing of Gravity's acquisition by frogdesign.
VPL Research, Inc. Systems Engineer
Redwood City , California
Sept 1991 to Nov 1992
VPL was the world's leading provider of virtual reality products and services. Responsibilities included hardware and software system integration and quality assurance of SGI/Unix, PC, and Mac system for marketing, sales, and manufacturing.
 
Education
 
University of California,
San Diego - Revelle College

BA Philosophy,
Minor in Cognitive Science
Sept 1987 to June 1991
 

 
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email me at: DaleMcGrew@yahoo.com