Dan McGrail is the Vice President of Product Development for CSI where he began as a Programmer Analyst in 1994. Over the years Dan has progressed through the ranks and in 1996 was promoted to Engineer/Architect where he designed most of the new systems CSI was producing for a Manufacturing and Accounting Application. In 2000 Dan became Production Manager for CSI and oversaw the workload of 12 programmers and architects producing all code for an array of applications. In 2002 Dan took over as Vice President of Product Development for CSI and its subsidiaries, thus acting as the visionary for all current and future products produced by CSI.

Dan received his training in electronics from the United States Army where he worked primarily on CH-47 Chinook helicopters with cross training on AH-64 Apache, AH-1 Cobra, UH-64 Blackhawk, and UH-1 Huey. Dan received his training in computer science from Manchester Community Technical College where he earned a degree in Computer Science and Engineering with a minor in Finance.

Over the years Dan has realized many achievements within his professional career. In early 1996 Dan authored a complete customer service tracking and billing system still used internally by CSI today. From 1997 to 1999 Dan co-authored 4 technical books related to the “Year 2000 Problem” and has been quoted as saying “Those 2000 pages nearly killed me”. Dan has experience with many different flavors of desktop operating systems, network operating systems, development languages, applications, toolsets and frameworks.

Dan is an avid sports fan and enjoys watching football, watching and playing baseball, vacationing in the Caribbean and taking all his friends' money playing poker. Dan lives in Connecticut with his wife Jackie and son Ryan.