Summary
Grant Dawson is a pragmatic CTO with 11 years of software engineering experience building enterprise and consumer-facing systems from mobile to web. Based in Santa Ana, he leads UwoTech after shaping vehicle and banking digital products at Hyundai Motor America and SchoolsFirst Credit Union, where he boosted site performance and enabled mobile deposits and dealer integrations. A full‑stack practitioner comfortable with Angular, C#, Cordova/PhoneGap and BackboneJS, he combines hands-on engineering with proposal-writing and team training to win and deliver projects. Passionate about automation, education, and practical fabrication, he frames software as a force-multiplier for societal impact beyond typical product goals. Known for mentoring and pragmatic optimizations, he also tutors and has helped clients—from K–12 students to corporate leaders—accelerate learning and results.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Transferred, Computer Science, Transferred, Computer Science at Orange Coast College
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology - Software, 3.81, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology - Software, 3.81 at Western Governors University
java, c#, c++, objective c, html, css, javascript, jquery, python, nodejs