Dan Moorehead founded PowerSheet.ai and PowerAccess, after Visual3D and AutoSub, as a serial SaaS, AI, data and development tools software serial entrepreneur. Dan has a passion for designing and developing new tools and automation solutions to enable non-coders to create – whether be databases, business intelligence (BI) tools, data visualizations, 3D games, or training simulations.
He enjoys designing and leading development teams to build products and solutions, as well as coding himself in C#, VB.NET, SQL and VBA. He has 15 years of founding in founding products and companies, leading development teams, software architecture and engineering, and viral marketing.
Dan was Founder, CEO & Chief Software Architect for Realmware Corporation, where he designed and developed the first ever commercial 3D Game Engine & Development Toolset for .NET, the Visual3D Game Engine, which achieved over 30,000 users. He established development offices in U.S. and Minsk, Belarus and leveraged Visual3D to provide U.S. and offshore design, consulting, outsourcing, and rapid development services for Fortune 500's, US Army, and US Air Force to develop 3D training, virtual earth, mining, engineering, P2P and cloud server-enabled massive-multiplayer games and virtual worlds, Serious Games, aircraft, combat, CAD and GIS simulations & interactive visualizations.
Dan's product proved the viability of .NET Framework with C# and VB.NET for game development, which had previously been considered non-feasible due to reduced performance compared to native C++. This led to Dan's creation, the RealmForge (the predecessor to Visual3D) being published on the front page as the title story for the "3D Games in .NET" July 2005 issue of Software Developer's Journal (Software 2.0 magazine). This paved the way for C# and .NET now becoming the leading platform for game and simulation development.
Dan's expertise is in creating innovative, easy-to-use tools which enable non-technical users to design, build, and publish interactive data visualizations - complete with AI, visual macro scripting for application logic, GIS data, physics simulation, content import & export automation, code generation, P2P and cloud server-enabled multi-user real-time, integrated collaborative editing, and sync/publish/integration of multiple web services and databases. He designed Visual3D to enable new audiences of non-programmers to create games and simulations.
After accomplishing all this with the Visual3D Engine and its tools for visual design, development, live, multi-user editing of 3D data visualization - bringing game and simulation to new audiences of non-programmers - he applied this expertise and his passion for automation to providing tools which enable even non-technical users to more easily create relational databases with Microsoft Access.
Now, the PowerAccess team is likewise paving the way for easy and complete (with formulas and analysis models, no just data importing) migration from Excel to Access (and possibly even automated conversion in the future), with support for much simpler, and yet more versatile, PowerSQL with Excel-like, relative row formulas and functions for query creation. Like Visual3D, PowerAccess automates tasks like Data Macro/Trigger generation, greatly reduces the need for VBA coding, and enables automated sync/publish/integration with other databases and tools like SharePoint, SQL Server, and Power BI.
Tedious, error-prone manual processes are his pet peeve & arch-nemesis, which is what leads him to automate wherever and whatever he can, simplifying and streamlining tasks, workflows, analysis, data visualization, reporting, database/game/application development, and business processes.
His passion for automation is what lead Dan to develop the PowerAccess Framework as a solution for enabling the creation of MS Access and other databases with easy-to-use Excel-like formulas and automating the conversion & flow of data from Excel to MS Access to SQL Server/SharePoint/PowerApps/Power BI as well as reports and visualizations.
Dan loves encountering and overcoming a wide range of new challenges while addressing clients' pains, which is why he also leads consulting projects for PowerAccess-accelerated development of BI and other data solutions.
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