Greetings and Salutations,

 My name is Grant, but my eFriends call me Wav. I first developed a fascination for cars at an early age. Probably because my father always drove European sports cars. After high school, for nearly 20 years my days were consumed working as a certified Maseratti and Mercedes Benz mechanic. My nights and weekends revolved around building and racing various Chevy and Mopar muscle cars from the 60's and 70's.

 After many speeding tickets and constantly abused fingers, my choice of hobbies migrated toward theatre, audio mixing and computers. I started running the sound mixing board for friend’s bands, then got involved in theatre production. This was about the same time that I was starting to get exposure to the world of computers. When I was running the sound board for plays, most of the sound queues that I used were recorded and played back on cassette audio tapes. I started recording the sound effects on my computer and saving them as wav files. Now when I went to queue my next sound during the production, it was just a mouse click away instead of changing tapes. This is how I acquired the name WavMixer.

 My first computer purchase started with a phone call to Jeff Levy, host of a computer talk show locally here in Los Angeles KNX 1070 AM. I was planning on purchasing a computer in the near future, so I called his radio show to see what he recommended. I was the very first caller, on his very first radio broadcast and soon became a regular caller to the show. When Jeff needed a website, Grant McBride aka WavMixer was his choice for web development. After a brief hiatus from working on Jeff's site, we are proud to welcome Jeff back to the list of WavMixer clients.

 In 1996 I went to work as a tech support rep for a little start up company called EarthLink. I soon worked my way up to head of the web support department until the dot com rage started calling my name. After three years with EarthLink, I ventured out on my own to grab my share of the dot com dream. I am one of the fortunate few that actually walked away from the dot com crash well ahead of where I started. I own it up to me being Irish.

  Aside from my web development endeavors, I work for the information technology department in the bio-medical field. My employer is a world leader in insulin pump therapy and continuous glucose monitoring. I recently found out that I am diabetic, so I could not be working at a better place. I'm fortunate to be involved in field where I can be a part of helping people, and working with computers, which happens to be my favorite hobby. If I ever had to offer advise to someone, it would be to follow your dreams and remember that the impossible just takes a little bit longer. 

Happy Surphing,

-=Wav=-