Dave Graham

Current

Writer and Publisher at Battle Game Sports and Hobbies, LLC
Principle Software Engineer at PTC

Past

URL Content Manager at Co-Active Leaders Linked (CALL, Inc.)
Founder at www.ExtremeStandardization.org
Volunteer Presenter at The Climage Project

LLC Member at Creative Sword Play (PLAY LLC)
Senior Software Engineer at CoCreate Software, Inc
Director of Geospatial Applications Development at i-cubed
Senior Software Engineer at Sixth Dimension, Inc.

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Education

Coaches Training Institute
Colorado State University
Florida Institute of Technology

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Industry

Management Consulting

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Dave Graham’s Summary

Dave Graham has a strong sense of purpose and is looking to be a high impact leader in making technology truly work for humanity and the earth.

Not daunted by difficult challenges, he is optimistic. He has used his strong software engineering skills to the benefit of several companies in transforming the possible into current reality. He now applies that strength in several non-profit areas to the benefit of humanity.

One area of focus for Dave’s life work is involved mentoring individuals to become the most impactful leaders that they can. With the Co-Active Leaders Linked he uses his technical skills as well as his life knowledge to facilitate an online learning community called “The Ultimate Resource for Leaders”. With Toastmasters International he speaks regularly on the subject of leadership. He is a fan of Steve Farber’s Extreme Leadership model.

As a mechanical engineer, Dave has spent the last several years employed to understand industrial product life-cycle management (PLM). From this knowledge and his work in the environment, Dave has developed the theory of Extreme Standardization. A theory that basically states: More standardized parts = less choice for the product designer = more choice for the consumer. He is now working to make Extreme Standardization a reality that can help humanity through a time of resource scarcity.

Dave enjoys public speaking extreme standardization, turning problems into opportunities, leadership, and issues of the environment.

Dave Graham’s Specialties:

extreme standardization, leadership, facilitation, disruptive technology, business concept innovation, training workshops, community building, concensus process, appreciative inquirey, entrepreneurship, small business development, energy, renewable energy, solar, control systems, software engineering, computer aided design, geographic information systems

Dave Graham’s Experience

Writer and Publisher

Battle Game Sports and Hobbies, LLC

(Sports industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

Dave Graham is currently working on publishing his new book "Battle Gaming: The New American Sport." The book covers battle gaming as played in Amtgard, Belegarth, Dagorhir, and Darkon. It will be self published in the Fall of 2009 under his new company Battle Game Sports and Hobbies, LLC. It will be marketed in a black and white paper edition and color E-book addtion. The project for 2010 is the follow on book "The Referee and Coaches Guide to Battle Gaming."
Principle Software Engineer

PTC

(Public Company; PMTC; Computer Software industry)

December 2007 — Present (2 years )

With PTC’s acquisition of CoCreate Software, Dave Graham is continuing in his role as a Software Engineer. He is currently working on the new Windchill ProductPoint product for Microsoft SharePoint Services.
URL Content Manager

Co-Active Leaders Linked (CALL, Inc.)

(Management Consulting industry)

November 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Dave Graham volunteers as the content manager for the Co-Active Leaders Linked (CALL, Inc.) online community known as The Ultimate Resource for Leaders. He oversees the both the IT infrastructure for the community as well as soliciting content from around the world to truly build "The Ultimate Resource for Leaders."
Founder

www.ExtremeStandardization.org

(Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

August 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 5 months)

Dave Graham is Founder of Extreme Standardization, Interconnect, and Integration (ESII) a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a new paradigm for the manufacturing industry.

The simplest metaphor for extreme standardization is to think “What if our world was made of LEGO blocks?” Although this metaphor simplifies the problem quite a bit, it captures the meaning of what extreme standardization is about.

Drawing heavily upon the leanings of the software industry, ESII is looking to begin an open source program for mechanical design for the purpose of building the world’s largest repository of standardized interlocking part designs. In addition, such standardized parts will not be arbitrary but ESII will leverage heavily the Microsoft model of co-opting existing standards and extending them for the purpose of better integration.

Dave is currently working with a small team to create this new non-profit dedicated to changing how humans relate to their built world.
Volunteer Presenter

The Climage Project

(Renewables & Environment industry)

January 2007 — December 2008 (2 years )

Climate Change Challenges and Our Bright New Future

Selected to be one of 1,000 people to receive training by The Climate Project to be an educational presenter, Dave Graham takes the audience on an exciting ride through the shocking reality of our looming climate crisis, ending with a powerful call to action. His audiences leave feeling empowered and part of the solution. Graham discusses the human-and-earth relationship and how, as a species, we came to this change point. He invites his audience to dream into a bright future and virtually takes them there. A dynamic and entertaining speaker who delivers a compelling presentation with beautiful graphics, Graham has received strongly positive feedback for this presentation.

Graham has learned the power of the marketplace and the role of the business community in shaping our world. He has a way of casting dire problems into opportunities. This is reflected in his previous speaking campaign, entitled “Peak Oil Economic Opportunity”
LLC Member

Creative Sword Play (PLAY LLC)

(Sports industry)

January 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 6 months)

www.CreativeSwordPlay.com

Dave Graham is one of the owners of Creative Sword Play. The business provides youth summer camp programs that involve the sport of sword play conducted with foam padded mock weapons.

Dave has drawn on his past intrest in medieval recreation and live action battle gaming to help create a unique exprience that children can enjoy and remember for a lifetime.
Senior Software Engineer

CoCreate Software, Inc

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 9 months)

Dave Graham contributed to several projects at CoCreate Software Inc. prior to the purchase of the company by PTC. In his position as Senior Software Engineer he applied his problem solving skills to create customer value and move CoCreate’s products forward in both technology use and feature set. Dave participated in using the eXtreme Programming methodology while developing with CoCreate teams. Projects that Dave was involved with included: the OneSpace.net Project Work Space online collaboration system, the OneSpace Model Manager, OneSpace Manager Server, and a verity of connectivity projects involving web services running in both .Net and Java.
Director of Geospatial Applications Development

i-cubed

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2001 — July 2003 (2 years 1 month)

Dave Graham oversaw the early development of the i-cubed DataDoors project. A project that involved the integration of multiple GIS engines, scripts, database, and user interface into a single end to end data processing engine.
Senior Software Engineer

Sixth Dimension, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

March 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 4 months)

Using eXtreme Programming methodology, Dave assisted in the construction of an electric power control network for distributed generation and load control over the internet.

Dave Graham’s Education

Coaches Training Institute

Leadership 2005 — 2006

Activities and Societies:

CTI Leadership Program
Hawks
Colorado State University

MS , Mechanical Engineering , September 1995 — May 1998

Thesis: Solar Domestic Hotwater System Designed for Installation

Activities and Societies:

Solar Energy Applications Lab (SEAL)
Florida Institute of Technology

BS , Sp[ace Sciences , September 1985 — May 1990

Activities and Societies:

Alpha Phi Omega, Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy (FITSSFF)