Dave Grant

Dave Grant grew up in Tacoma, Washington. From an early age he always had a fascination with electronics. He attended DeVry University in Phoenix and started working for a GE 2-way Service Station in 1972. While there, Dave built and installed the first Solar Powered VHF Repeater in Lewis County, Washington. Over the next 10 years he worked for RCA and Motorola as well, building up experience in 2-way, mobile telephones, portable radios and paging. In 1981, he joined a local paging company, where over the next 6 years assisted in growing the business from 4 transmitters to 40, and 5000 pagers to 25,000.

In 1984 Dave began writing software for the UNIX operating system, which later expanded to include the Windows operating system and continues to this day. He went on to join US West Paging in 1987, where as Director of Technical Services, he was responsible for all radio paging and network systems across 14 Western States.

Grant went on to start his own consulting business in 1989 and has been writing software, participating in start-up IT projects, building and maintaining mid-sized IT systems, and providing project management, integration and training services ever since.

More recently, Phase 4 Design placed an emphasis on the Public Safety application of RoIP dispatch systems. In 2008 Dave became a Certified Trainer for the TELEX RADIO DISPATCH Product Line of BOSCH Security Systems. He is currently one of 3 factory certified Telex trainers in North America.