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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 Oct 2011).
ian [dot] glendinning [at] gmail [dot] com
(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
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.... and, Now
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Name
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Ian Glendinning
(contact as above)
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Domicile
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Guisborough, UK
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Family
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Married with two grown boys.
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Nationality
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British
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Place of Birth
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Barrow-in-Furness, UK
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Date of Birth
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25th February 1956
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Educated
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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)
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Qualifications
& Awards
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BSc(Eng)
Hons, ACGI, Aeronautical (1977)
CEng, MIMechE, MWeldI
(1983)
MBA, DIC, Innovation, Change & Culture (1991) (Dissertation)
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Employment Experience
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Over 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.
12 years in information systems analysis, development and implementation.
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Employers
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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.
Oct 2008 to 2010 DNV -
Information Risk Management via standard web reference data
architecture-based services, Oslo, Norway.
May 2010 to Present GlencoIS –
Reference-Data-Based Interoperability Services, Guisborough, UK
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Interests
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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
- 1980 Shetland (Enterprise), 1999 Turkey (Lasers), 2000 & 2002 Greece
(Lasers), 2001/2 Grenada (Laser 3000), 2002/3/4 Burghfield
(Buzz), 2009 Ionian Flotilla.
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)
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Let's Get Personal
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[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.)
You’ll also find me easy to connect to on WordPress, FaceBook,
LinkedIn, FriendsReunited, Twitter, Buzz, GooglePlus, Diaspora and several other fora. (My personal blog feed routes to Twitter, with
selected posts also going to my FaceBook and
LinkedIn feeds.)
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