Dean Gratton
Dean Anthony Gratton (born 1968) is an author and columnist, specializing in wireless communications.
He was born in Cardiff and secured his first software engineering role with Coinmaster Manufacturing Limited (later Coinmaster Gaming Products Limited), Penarth Road, Cardiff, which entered into administrative receivership, March 2003.
Gratton moved to Cambridge, England in the mid-1990s to further his career in software engineering. In 2000 Gratton became Editor of the Specification of the Bluetooth Profiles v1.1, Part K:9 (the LAN Access Profile) and in 2001 his work with Bluetooth wireless technology received a US patent. Later that year, Gratton received a publishing contract for his first book titled Bluetooth Profiles: The Definitive Guide, Prentice Hall (an imprint of Pearson Education) which was subsequently published in January 2003. He also participated in defining the initial Bluetooth Personal Area Networking (PAN) profiles, and was ACTIVE in the Near Field Communication technology and marketing committees.
Gratton studied for a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with the Open University and later in 2007 he received a Doctorate in Telecommunications.
List of works
- Just Touch! The Definitive Guide to Near Field Communications (NFC), Prentice Hall (an imprint of Pearson Education), 2015 (ISBN 0133574288)
- The Next Generation of Bluetooth wireless technology: Classic Bluetooth, high speed and low energy technologies, John Wiley & Sons, 2015 (ISBN 1119990483)
- The Handbook of Personal Area Networking Technologies and Protocols, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (ISBN 0521197260)
- Zero to 100,000: Social Media Tips and Tricks for Small Businesses, Que (an imprint of Pearson Education), 2011 (ISBN 0789748002)
- Developing Practical Wireless Applications, Digital Press Books (an imprint of Elsevier), 2007 (ISBN 1555583105)
- Marketing Wireless Products, Butterworth–Heinemann (an imprint of Elsevier), 2004 (ISBN 075065936X)
- Bluetooth Profiles: The Definitive Guide, Prentice Hall (an imprint of Pearson Education), 2003 (ISBN 0130092215)