Who Am I?
Geek, fixer, builder or more formally technologist, engineer, project manager, problem solver and innovator. I’ve been described as all of these things and worse. My current favourite is latitudinarian (A person who is broad-minded and tolerant; one who displays freedom in thinking). ),thank you to dictionary.com for word of the day
26 years ago at the age of 13 a badly broken arm and an advertisement in the Sunday Times lead me into technology. I was given a Sinclair ZX81 as a way to occupy me while I was out of school recuperating. I learnt to program and developed the love hate relationship with technology that has carried through to this day.
All I want to be,
is someone that makes new things.
And thinks about them
Over the years I have worked
- with organisations ranging from multi-nationals through to start-ups
- in a variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, engineering and consumer electronics
- as a programmer, an IT manager, a project manager, an executive
- in the UK / Ireland, in Germany, in the USA
- on the design and implementation IT systems (both software and infrastructure), developed strategies, identified ‘next generation’ technologies, built production lines and lead process improvement projects.
Although I’m a technologist at heart I have always focused on delivering benefit to the business through the combination of empowering people and improving processes and deploying technology as an enabler.
The greatest pleasure I’ve had during my career has been my role as a mentor. I have been lucky enough to work with a number of very gifted individuals some of whom have gone on to great things professionally but all whom have taught me more I ever taught them. Perhaps the greatest compliment they have paid me is that I am now privileged to call them friends.
Outside of work, I’m a keen photographer and having recently moved to the country I’m discovering the highs and lows of the ‘good life’. Highs eating organic vegetables straight from the garden, lows finding your entire potato crop is dead because of blight.
Contact Me
web at garygilliland dot com
Disclaimer: Just like the movies "the events depicted here are fictitious. Any similarity to any person living or dead is merely coincidental." More seriously the articles that appear here are my own work and are based on cumulative experience. In no way do they reflect my experiences in any single organisation. The content and opinion posted here is mine and does not represent past, present or future employers.