Gail Grant Email and Phone Number

After retiring from my Internet Business Consulting Company, I spend my time doing volunteer work, jogging, hiking, and helping others. I dabble at the arts, crafting, home organization, and music, and enjoying life. I also teach yoga and PiYo at the local YMCA.Details of my current activities can be found on my home page at www.GLGC.com

Did Internet Business Development consulting for large firms, such as Visa International, Bank One, France Telecom, Compaq Computer, and Stanford University.

As an early employee in an Internet Startup, I did everything from coding to business development. I managed the early relationships with Tandem, Digital and Sybase in the first six months of employment. Thereafter, most of my time went to executive consulting with large corporations who were trying to develop an effective Internet strategy, deploy OM-Transact (an Internet commerce infrastructure product) and use the Internet to improve their business. I represented Open Market at CommerceNet, chaired the Network Services Working group and later co-chairing the Public Key Infrastructure Task Force. I spoke regularly at conferences on topics related to the Internet and its use for business.

Positions held: Internet Alpha Program Manager(3/93-8/94) RISC/UNIX Requirements Manager(9/90-5/94) RISC/ULTRIX Business Development Manager(88-90) Marketing Manager(86-88)My most well-known accomplishment was the creation, implementation and management of the Internet Alpha Program, which put Alpha AXP systems on the Internet for customers to "test-drive". Since September 1993, over 8,000 people from over 2,000 organizations in 27 countries have usedthis program. The systems average 1 log-in every 4 minutes and millions in revenue are generated by the program, plus millions in savings. I also represented Digital as a CommerceNet sponsor and drove our presence at the Internet World '94 trade show and the MecklerWeb announcement.As the manager of RISC/UNIX Requirements, my full-time job was to hold Customer Advisory Boards to discover what customers want in the RISC/UNIX space and feed this information back into engineering, product management and marketing. This was an outgrowth of my job in business development, changing the focus of my work from regional to worldwide. As the manager of ULTRIX Tech Support and later System Software Field Readiness, my group was responsible for all presentation materials/sales training for operating systems and X Windows.

Positions held: RS/1 Development Manager Systems ProgrammerAs a systems programmer, I was responsible for the specification and much of the coding for RS/1, Release 2(written in C on BSD UNIX running on a VAX). As the RS/1 Development Manager, my job included building a development team and setting long term product strategy in conjunction withMarketing. Major accomplishments include: . Specification & coding in graphics, performance, UI, UNIX tools, utilities, ease of use . Established process and software for accountability/review for bugs . Specification and coding of the VAX and PC Kanji versions of the product . Procurement of NRC Quality Certification for our product development practices for RS/1 . Creation of a programmable, error-correcting run-time extension to a yacc grammar.