From: "Glenn Ballard" To: > Hi, > > My name is Glenn Ballard. > > I was a MRGC - Radio / Radar student between the years of 1977 and 1980. > > Upon completion of my studies, I worked for CASE Communication (later Dowty > and then CRAY communication) in Watford between the dates of 1980 and 1991, > starting in Field Service, and working up to International Technical > Support. > > At that time, I happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time (i.e. > Moscow) when the company decided to "Right size"....... > > Since that time - until present, I have lived and worked in the Middle East, > mainly in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but also in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. > > I proposed and designed what has become the Internet backbone for Saudi > Arabia whilst I worked with Lucent Technologies. > > I was poached by General DataComm (GDC between 1998 - mid 1999) to work in > Dubai where I was the Middle East Regional Support Manager to support Lucent > and other distributors on the equipment they had purchased. > > In 1999 Lucent Technologies poached me back, to return to Saudi, in order to > advise on the installation and maintenance of the Internet, and run the > Technical Support Departments. > > At present I am the 'Project Director' for another company, partnered with > Nortel Networks here in the Kingdom, installing and maintaining the Internet > Network Expansion projects. > > Married and divorced a terrific person from which I now have a wonderful 14 > year old son, and have now re-married an equally terrific Canadian. When I > finally decide it is getting too hot in this part of the world (temperature > in summer +50C and above, and political - well that is always hot), Canada > will probably be my final destination. > > I attended a college reunion back in the late 1980's, and would love to hear > if anyone should plan another some time. If so, do let me know, but please > give me plenty of notice in order to arrange travel details from this end. > > > > > Would be nice to hear from some of you.