Contact
If you don't know who I am, it might help if you did.
On the other hand, it may just be vanity publishing.
This site is run by
Ian Glendinning. In general you can communicate via the feedback links in the Blog. If you wish to communicate directly, e-mail me at the address
below (Last update Jan 2008).
(I am NOT however the Ian Glendinning of High Performance Parallel Computing
fame. Click here to be
re-directed.)
Below are a few details you may be interested to know about me.
Then ....
.... and, Now
Name Ian Glendinning (contact as above) Domicile Reading, UK Nationality British Place of Birth Barrow-in-Furness, UK Date of Birth 25th February 1956 Educated Guisborough Grammar School (1967-72)
Prior Pursglove College, Guisborough (1972-74) (Class of 1972 / 1974 site.)
Imperial College, London (1974-77)
IC (Tanaka) Business Management School, London (pt 1989-91)Qualifications
& AwardsBSc(Eng) Hons, ACGI, Aeronautical (1977)
CEng, MIMechE, MWeldI (1983)
MBA, DIC, Innovation, Change & Culture (1991) (Dissertation)Employment Experience 30 years an engineer, project-manager and line-manager of up to 120 staff, of which:
2 years in aircraft dynamics analysis and testing,
18 years in energy industry process plants, technology selection, pressure systems design, fabrication, construction, and pre-commissioning handover.
10 years in information systems analysis, development and implementation.Employers Summer 1975 French Kier - ICI Teeside PTA Plant Cooling tower construction.
Summer 1976 BAe / BAC - Warton - Prototype "Tornado" testing and re-configuration.
1977 to 1078 BAe / Hawkers - Kingston - "Harrier & Hawk" dynamics, analogue, digital and testing, including first Harrier "ski-jump" take-offs.
Sep 1978 to 2000 Foster Wheeler - Process plants engineering, Reading, UK.
Jan 2001 to 2005 CADCENTRE / AVEVA - Software & services, Cambridge, UK.
Jan 2005 to 2008 INTERGRAPH - Software & services, Perth, WA & Huntsville, AL.
Dec 2008 to present DNV - Information Risk Management via standard web reference data architecture-based services, Oslo, Norway.Interests Football (soccer) - variously Jack Charlton's Middlesbrough, Harry Basset's Wimbledon, Glen Hoddle's Swindon, and more recently Reading FC season ticket-holder and STAR supporter's trust founder member. Also Woodley Saints' Boys football manager 1991/98, including FA coaching certificate. Sailing (dinghies) - 1980 Shetland (Enterprise), 1999 Turkey (Lasers), 2000 & 2002 Greece (Lasers), 2001/2 Grenada (Laser 3000), 2002/3/4 Burghfield (Buzz).
Professional Engineering - Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Member continuously since 1982. Welding Institute - 1983 - 1996 Thames Valley committee, chair, secretary, programme secretary, active member, now lapsed.
Knowledge Modelling - 2001 onwards, a personal project researching and understanding information from a human organisational decision support view. (See Psybertron Blog) (Presented papers on web standard Reference Data Architecture information models in the energy engineering business since 1996, at industry conferences in UK, Netherlands, Norway, USA & Finland, and on pragmatic "Quality", see Pirsig Pages)
Let's Get Personal [This didn't start off as a personal home pages project, but it looks like I'll have to get that side of things organised sometime soon ... maybe one day.] Link to personal / family pages. (HOLD - under construction one day.)
Link to music pages and photo gallery. (Old and new tech mixture of subjects - really must get organized one day.)
Link to other heroes and formative personal highlights. (HOLD - re-building some day.)