Grant Hawkes

Grant Hawkes is a cloud software specialist with over 15 years of technical, architectural, and management experience. Grant has repeated success delivering entrepreneurial and enterprise software solutions in various industries including Transportation, Education, and IT. Grant prides himself on creating innovative and impactful solutions that align with his client’s goals and ensure their success.

Grant recently delivered transportation solutions for the state of Arizona that serve millions of users. Grant led the core architecture team focusing on cloud design and development for Microsoft Azure. Grant was critical in spearheading Arizona’s implementation of mobile digital identities. Grant regularly leads multiple teams, including those with outside parties from FAANG-level industry partners and government agencies.

Prior to his current position Grant served as the Director of Development and Architecture for an education technology firm delivering online learning for English phonics, phonetics, spelling, and grammar. Grant led the company’s transition to the mobile web ensuring that rich multimedia experiences could be delivered to a wide variety of devices including PCs, Macs, iPads, and Chromebooks. Grant designed the algorithms for assessing students and creating custom differentiated instruction curriculums.

Previously, Grant has worked as a developer, database administrator, student consultant for Microsoft, and computer science instructor.