Ivory Patent
The approval of the Patent for Ivory is one of those milestones that a lot of companies strive to achieve. Having a great group of very creative developers take a set of ideas created on a plane trip from the UK written on a scratch pad and building Ivory is truly amazing.
Roland Martin – the co-author of the patent – was very quick to understand the concepts required to build such a great software product. Roland and I hit it off the very first time we together, at the time my role at GT was mainly development, after the interview was over I told the manager of GT Software development we need to hire this guy! But the timing was just not right as Roland accepted another offer before GT could get their offer on the table.
About a year or so later, Roland came back and GT Software management wasted no time in making him an offer, so Roland must have seen something at GT Software he liked as well. Since then we both designed and developed several other products for GT Software.
Enough of the reminiscing about how Roland and I came to work together at GT Software and back to Ivory. After Roland and I worked up more details on the product we discussed the idea in detail with the owner of GT Software. Joe Ganem has always looked forward to next big product for GT and he liked the idea enough to allow me to build a team of developers and invest in creating Ivory.
We started networking around the office to get leads from our existing staff on who they considered to be a good fit for GTSoftware and the Ivory project. Now after several years of work the GT Software Development Team is very proud that they helped take an idea from the scratch pad to the market.
Several enterprises have adopted the Ivory process for services, ranging from mid-sized insurance companies, large financial and banking institutions — to the aviation industry.
After seeing such praise in the press about the first GT Software patent, I am honored to have worked at such a great company for all these years.
Thank you to all people that have said such moving words about this accomplishmen — and to Joe Ganem and the GT Software Development Team that made it all possible.
We will continue to improve Ivory, but we will keep the scratch pad close at hand, for that next idea.
Cheers,
Steve
