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About Moi, Grant!
Hey there. I'm Grant Jorde. I graduated with a Bachelor of
Science from the Computer Engineering department at
the University of Washington in Spring 1999. I later returned part
time in the evenings and earned my Master of Science in Computer Science in 2004.
There I took a plethora of classes & worked as a teaching assistant for the
CSE370 Intro to Digital Design course. I spent one summer (1998)
interning at WRQ Inc., where I
performed technical testing of their Express Meter 5.0 software.
The summer before that (1997) I interned at Fluke Corporation, where I
helped design & program a test system for their network
cablemeters.
After my undergrad studies I began working at imandi.com, as a Software
Engineer in their internal applications team. They were an e-commerce web site
designed to help consumers get in touch with local service providers.
After about a year and a half it was realized
the company's business model wasn't reaching profitability fast
enough for investors, so the company re-organized as Rendition Networks
building tools for network maintenance. They were later acquired by the publically
traded company Opsware. Rather than stick it out
with Rendition Networks' new direction, I decided to take the opportunity to make a career
transition to an industry I'd wanted to work in since
college, medical imaging. Though I enjoyed my time at imandi,
gained a lot of technical experience, and worked with some great
people.
Oh yeah, in there somewhere I got married to my high school sweetheart,
Julie. Of course it was a beautiful wedding, ending with an amazing honeymoon
in Jamaica! Julie owns her own small business,
Piece by Piece Design, where she makes hand crafted mosaic works.
And we're now proud parents as we've had a couple very cute boys together, Ethan and Tristan.
It's a lot of work negotiating with a toddler!
More recently, I've been working as a Software
Engineer for
Philips Ultrasound (formerly ATL Ultrasound) in sunny Bothell, WA.
As their name implies, they make ultrasound devices used to image soft tissue in the human body for medical
diagnosis. You might already know ultrasound is used to take a look at pregnancies and the heart, but I bet
you didn't know it's also used to image practically everything in the human body from the eye balls
to the vascular structures in the brain. I've primarily worked in graphics and image processing,
where I help design and implement software which visually displays the system's
images to the user. I've implemented significant software for several releases of
their iU22, iE33 and HD11 XE ultrasound systems.
The company is one of the market leaders and the work is rewarding, challenging,
and interesting, to say the least.
Some of my other personal interests include programming, golf (invite me to play, I
haven't played much recently so you're sure to beat me and feel better about
yourself in the process), basketball (3 time champs of Philips league),
softball, poker, rootin' for Husky football, and computer gaming.
You can check out a couple of the programming projects I've worked on from my
UW CSE pages.
Don't be shy, feel free to e-mail me about anything at all, just send to
grantsjo@yahoo.com. Don't worry, if I don't find your message of
interest I'll simply ignore it, no harm done. Though I'll likely
respond unless it's Vu, Noely, Baerwaldt(aka Beerboy), PeiPei, Jon, Bean,
Justi-r, Yates, or any of the "Lucky 7 ex-imandi crew"
cause you guys have already wasted enough of my time in the past ;)