Bluetube Interactive - Our Team of Industry professionals and Clients

THE TEAM

Grant Davies - President / Enterprise Architect

Grant has over 20 years experience in consulting, team leadership and development. He provides organizations with a stategic vision in web based and desktop based software such as interactive websites and applications, statistical dashboards, social networking and content managed applications. Grant is currenty focused in the Rich Internet application space that use technologies like Flex, Flash, rich media, JAVA and .NET. He architects using UML with Enterprise Architect

Grant has produced solutions for organizations including Sprint, CNN, Norfolk Southern Rail Road, Kids AOL, Merrill Lynch, Multicast Media, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Chastain Park, Danske, RoboBank International, Woodruff Arts Center, Timberland, Reebok, Kimberly Clark, National Rifle Association, Ford and The Atlanta Falcons.

Grant started work in the financial sector in the United Kingdom, architecting, developing and deploying Futures and Arbitrage Software across Europe for large banking clients. Grant is a natural software architect with the ability to see patterns in the chaos and has a uncanny ability to breakdown, simplify and integrate the most complex systems. Grant spent the 90's architecting C++ and later J2EE architectures for fortune 500's to provide solutions like trouble ticket management and security management.

In the late 90's he picked up flash which he immediately saw as the solution to rich client applications. Grant is unique in his ability to develop for interactive websites and applications in Flex and Flash that feature rich interaction and animation driven by content management systems. Grant has decades of traditional software development in JAVA J2EE, PHP and C++, this enables Grant to understand both the client and server tiers which uniquely qualifies Grant to design and architect solutions that cover the enterprise.

Grant released aprx, and model view controller framework extension to the open source community in 2005 which is still in use today and featured on the OSflash website. Grant was also the co-author of fling, a asset management system which was also released to the open source community via OSflash. After a few years developing flex and flash using Cairngorm, Grant currently favors Puremvc as the design pattern for model view controller pattern for desktop and webbased software

Grants real strength is architecture and the ability to integrate systems, websites no longer live in a vaccum but are a collaboration of systems like social networking, security, user data, marketing and user behavior tracking, Having over 20 years implementing solutions as a consultant, he can now bring this experience to small and medium size organizations.

Grant is a certified Sitecore developer, and has a Bachelors Degree with Honors in Computer Science from the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom.

Grant Resides in Atlanta Georgia with his Fiancée. You can follow Grant on his blog - Ginormous and Twitter pages and read more about his career prior to Bluetube on LinkedIn

Paul Pezzano - Director of Operations / Architect

Paul began his IT career in Server support operations. Paul has supported large Windows infrastructure deployments for such companies as Nextel, Weyerhaeuser, and Sprint. Paul was a specialist in Active Directory architecture, deployment and support in large scale environments. Paul later followed his calling into Development and Architecture, where he became a specialist in CMS system implementation and interactivity through AJAX and other Rich Internet technologies.

Chris Tilley - Creative Director / Interactive

Chris Tilley boasts an extensive background in interactive media, motion graphics, art direction, 2D/3D animation and user interface design. Chris conceptually approaches each project in a way that achieves both visual interest and technical efficiency, and has been recognized with a variety of industry awards because of it (including the Telly, Davey and AMA Award for Excellence in Marketing Design).

Lee Sylvester - Architect

Lee Sylvester has a very unusual mix of talents having started his career in visual arts, but realizing his calling was to be a developer, he switched his career to software development. Lee's has provided cutting edge solutions to top name clients including Lloyds TSB, Crest Nicholson, Defra (Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), DTI (Department of Trade and Industry), Nickelodeon, BBC international, Cartoon Network and Ragdoll.

Starting as a visual designer Lee has an eye for animation which makes him the designers best friend, with his eye for animation and interactivity he can efficiently execute creative vision where other developers say it cannot be done. Lee also has an uncanny knack for parser logic and is the go to guy for complex algorithms such as content generation and game logic to name a few.