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My Work You can find my business site at GraniteHillsDesign.com, including a portfolio of recent UI and graphics projects. This page is about my work philosophy, work I've done at past companies, and the people with whom I've had the pleasure of working. The folks from Radish Works.        I designed and created game menus at Radish Works. We completed a series of 3 games that were published by Activision, and are still available at tack stores across the country - Extreme Rodeo, Extreme Bullriding, and Daily Racing Form Horseracing. The Rodeo game included of the more visually interesting help systems I've created - the "Rulebook" for the events - as realistic as possible. The IntelliCAD group, in Santee, after Visio purchased the project, including the original core group, plus documentation and test. IntelliCAD was (after a very long story I'm leaving for later) released as a Visio product. One key member of our team couldn't be there for the photo, so we added him in - can you find him? Someone else was deliberately left out - do you know who? After Pacific Petroleum Equipment, I joined IntelliCADD, in the marketing department of what was then a small drafting and third-party AutoCAD software company in La Mesa. Over time we focused more on software development. I moved into documentation, help systems, then into testing, programming and user interface (UI) development. It was the team from this company that went on to develop IntelliCAD, an AutoCAD-compatible drafting package. It even included ADS, LISP, and 3D functionality - not to mention many improvements, like being able to work with multiple drawings at once. Oh yeah, our UI was much more user-friendly (and yet completely compatible). One of the high points of my working life was watching the nice folks in the Autodesk booth go ashen the first time they saw an out-of-the-box third-party application run on IntelliCAD at a major trade show. They never thought we - a renegade little group in east county, would be able to do it. The gang from Pacific Petroleum Equipment, who finally smiled when they thought I was done taking photos for the web site. Pacific Petroleum Equipment (now under new ownership) was my family's business. I started out in outside sales, then did inside sales, bidding, and project coordination. Finally I worked up to Operations Manager - ran the warehouse, shipping/receiving, personnel, inventory, purchasing, database management, two relocations... It was fun work, mostly, with really good people (both the employees and the customers), but it started to get old after about 8 years.

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