Timothy Grant
Portland, Oregon
tjg@craigelachie.org
503-789-0658-Cell

Summary

• Twenty-two years of experience in Information Technology
• Particularly adept at managing others through setting the appropriate example
• Exceptional problem solving and troubleshooting abilities
• Very strong interpersonal skills
• Open-minded, flexible, and willing to learn
• Excellent skills as both an application architect and a systems architect
• Highly skilled programmer
• Deep understanding of the Open Source community and Open Source Software

Manager of Theatrical Technical Services
Rentrak Corporation
October, 2004 - Present

Rentrak is both a distributor of videos and DVDs, and an information aggregator for the film and cable television industries

• Responsible for ALL data that enters or leaves the Box Office Essentials application electronically.
• Responsible for dealing with the theater chains and film distributors to iron out any problems that crop up and the details on any new electronic data interchange formats and transports.
• Responsible for generating all new development assignments for internal changes to Box Office Essentials.
• Assist in developing roadmaps for future application development.
• Assist in developing content delivery architectures (hardware, network, co-location facilities, etc.)

Manager of Theatrical Software Development
Rentrak Corporation
April, 2004 - October, 2004

• Managed all aspects of development having to do with the Box Office Essentials application from task creation to task completion.
• Relieved developers of mundane management tasks so they could concentrate on developing software.
• Became an advocate for the development staff with both Theatrical management and Corporate management.

Software Developer
Rentrak Corporation
December, 2001 - April, 2004

• Worked with and led a team of developers to create, upgrade and maintain the Box Office Essentials reporting system. (The system was developed using Perl, Mason, Oracle and Apache)

• played a major role in designing and implementing our five nine's initiative to guarantee system availabilty to our users.

Chief Technology Officer & Founder
HyperLINq Technologies, Inc. (Portland, Oregon)
April, 2001 - October, 2001

HyperLINq developed network infrastructure software that deployed Windows desktops from a Linux server through a thin client architecture. It was a startup, founded in December, 2000, that grew to fifteen employees with initial product release in mid-2001. After September 11, 2001, the pending Series A funding failed to close and the Company was shut down.

• Led development team of four in taking the WinLINq and MobiLINq products from concept through versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.5. (WinLINq was developed using Python, TKinter, PyGTK, C and Java).
• Installed and successfully deployed WinLINq at two beta sites and a paying customer.
• Proved product performance and cost effectiveness under operational conditions.
• Defined product roadmap and timelines, then effectively executed against those timelines.
• Provided technology assessment and guidance for the Board of Directors.
• Recruited and hired the development team.
• Played a key role with the Board of Directors in recruiting the CEO, and Vice President of Sales/Marketing.
• Member of senior management from startup to shutdown.
• Instrumental in presenting products and technology to investors and customers.

Chief Technology Officer & Founder
Avalon Technology Group, Inc. (Portland, Oregon)
July, 1998 - April, 2001

Avalon Technology Group was an IT outsourcing company for small and medium businesses, founded in 1998. It grew from five to seventeen employees before it was purchased by HyperLINq.

• Became the first Red Hat Certified Engineer in Oregon.
• Guided Avalon to being the first Red Hat VAR and the leading Linux based outsourcer in Oregon.
• Created WinLINq, a Windows desktop deployment platform running on Linux that was so compelling that HyperLINq wanted to purchase the technology.
• Recruited and managed the engineering staff.
• Trained engineering staff on all aspects of Linux networking.
• Wrote several Linux based applications using Python, Zope, PostgreSQL, and Crystal Reports.

Partner & Consultant
Western Accounting Services, Inc.
DBA Legal Automation Works (Portland, Oregon)
October, 1994 - July, 1998

Western Accounting Services was a two person bookkeeping business that grew into a three person technology company built around small business accounting services and legal time and billing services.

• Responsible for providing the technical skills necessary to move from bookkeeping to IT consulting services.
• Instrumental in merging Western Accounting Services with another company to form Avalon Technology Group.
• Installed and supported both Microsoft Windows peer-to-peer networks and Novell NetWare based networks.
• Installed and supported Novell GroupWise groupware systems.
• Supported a vast array of PC based software.
• Customized the Comprehensive Legal Acounting System (CLAS) to create law firm specific applications using CLAS's built in programming language.
• Provided technology based litigation support services to several law firms.

Consultant
Dependable Printer Support (Salem, Oregon)
November, 1993 - October, 1994

Dependable Printer Support is a printer sales, repair and maintenance company.

• Created a computer repair and maintenance function within the printer company.
• Wrote, maintained and enhanced a royalty calculation package for a publishing company that had quarterly royalty accounting responsibilities. This software was used for five years. (Developed in the Paradox Application Language)

Data Processing Manager/Litigation Assistant
Shannon, Johnson & Bailey, P.C. (Portland, Oregon)
July, 1989 - November, 1993

Shannon, Johnson & Bailey, P.C. was an eight attorney law firm.

• Managed all computing, software and networking systems.
• Trained secretarial staff and attorneys in application software use.
• Developed software to assist in litigation efforts.
• Created complex economic damage models for plaintiff's in litigation.
• Testified at deposition and in court on behalf of plaintiffs

Programmer/Office Manager
Doxsis Systems, Inc. (Portland, Oregon)
April, 1987 - June, 1989

Doxsis Systems was an AlphaMicro mini-computer VAR, and Amiga mail-order software company.

• Responsible for all day-to-day operations of the office.
• Designed and developed software terminal emulation software for the Amiga to connect it to the AlphaMicro.
• Managed all hardware and software customer support services.
• Implemented and installed the latest in serial cable connectivity for terminals and printers.

Education
BS Computer Science; Pensacola Christian College
Trained by Red Hat for RHCE

Software projects

• I created the NTLogon utility that is bundled as an extra with with every Samba distribution
• I created the PyTestMate plugin for the TextMate text editor

Other Interests

• Writing
• Home Education
• Talented and gifted training
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Motorcycles (My bike is a Suzuki V-Strom)
• Console Games (XBox 360), Pinball
• Action Figures
• Comic Books