About Celestine Technologies Inc.

Celestine Technologies Inc.™

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At Celestine Technologies we focus our efforts on assisting companies and self-employed individuals who depend on technology for their business success.

Principal Bio

President & Founder: David Grenier, B.Sc.

Dave has been actively involved with technology since 1972 when he moved away from his family home in a small Ontario town to pursue computer courses in Toronto. He began working full-time at Dataline Inc. while still attending high school and graduated with the second highest grade. He chose to pursue his degree part-time so he could continue his "on the job" training at Dataline and Star Data Systems, which provided a much greater wealth of technology, and challenge.

Dave and his wife have nine children and several pets. He relaxes by motorcycling, reading and listening to a wide variety of music. You can see his motorcycling journal here.

Dave formed Celestine Technologies Inc. in 1994 so he could have the flexibility to be with his family as it grew.

1994 to Present:

Designed, developed and deployed an internet-based real estate listing, contact management and lead generation service (SaaS).
Worked closely with sales, marketing and support of Celestine's resellers to ensure our products and services satisfied the needs of their clients.
Acted as the technical lead and key designer and developer for the transition of major components for an international financial service provider from a large-scale mainframe environment to a distributed Linux farm.
Leader of a team responsible for the design of a next-generation financial service. Created and presented the final report with recommendations.
Leader of the deployment team responsible for the successful technology conversion at a major Canadian bank.
Designed and developed an extensive order entry system for a financial services company, permitting automation of most order processing; the project received an award for outstanding contribution.
Design and development of internet sites, including quote/order system for a telecommunications equipment provider.
Provision of technical expertise for a number of organizations, including audits of existing and planned systems.
Design and development of an inventory control system, including electronic entry of orders, purchase order generation and integration with an existing accounting system.
Development of telecommunications billing system incorporating integration with client's accounting system.

Star Data Systems Inc. (1985 to 1994)

One of nine co-founders with an initial goal of providing a competitive real-time stock quotation service to the retail financial brokerage community ("Starquote").
Worked closely with sales and marketing to ensure the products and services met and exceeded client expectations.
As a key member of the strategic planning team provided technical direction for the company's products and helped determine the best method to integrate Star Data's technology with that of current and potential clients.
Part of the management team responsible for the acquisition and integration of Dataline Inc.
Led a team responsible for cost containment of network and computer operations expenses.
In 1993, our team received Profit Magazine's award for the fastest growing company in Canada with 5-year revenue growth in excess of 11,000%.

Dataline Inc. (1975 to 1985)

Started out as a junior operator and software developer while attending high school and worked up to senior systems programmer responsible for operating system development and the Canquote stock market service.

Celestine's Skills

C/C++, SQL, Visual Basic, Javascript, Java, VBScript, JScript, FoxPro, Fortran, Assembler
HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, CGI, ASP
Computer systems analysis, design & development
Integration with exisitng systems, off-the-shelf and custom designed
Web site design, development and hosting, including e-commerce
Business management
Strategic planning
Business plan analysis and preparation
Project management
Computer system audits, especially to verify work done by third parties
User guides and technical writing
Training
Windows, Mac OS, UNIX, Linux
PC, Mac, DEC and IBM/370 mainframes