John Gartside

John Gartside John is an Associate of the firm with more than 20 years of consulting and technology implementation experience. His professional history includes:

Gartside Consulting – Specializing in optimization of geospatial, work management, and mobile resource management systems for the utility industry.

Geospatial Innovations, Inc. – Responsible for project development through delivery of utility industry system implementations.

GE Energy – Provided project management and technology consulting on all GE Smallworld implementations with utility industry clients.

Recent Projects

Projects that John has developed and managed in recent years include:

Mobile Workforce Management System Evaluation for Municipal Utility. Assisted with the requirements definition and selection of a new mobile workforce management system. Responsibilities included the development new business processes, evaluation of potential vendors including software and Automated Vehicle Location requirements, and the establishment of a new wireless network to cover the operating territory.

Determined Viability of Inherited GIS for Large Australian Electric Utility. This was a two year assignment that involved the development of a GIS viability business case. Responsibilities included all aspects of system operations relating to mapping, design, asset management, and operational performance improvements.

Integration of GIS and Legacy System for Large Electric Utility. Led a major initiative integrating SAP system with existing corporate GIS and design system. Project required additional integration of a new web based Storm Management application with pre-existing autonomous operational systems.

Previous Experience

John has extensive information technology experience which encompasses business consulting, project management, and system implementation. His concentration has been on improving operational efficiencies through the optimization of GIS, automated design, work management, and mobile resource management systems.

Throughout his career, John has acquired broad management and technology consulting experience in the utility industry. He has successfully assisted utilities on all facets of major project initiatives, from conceptual design to rollout, to subsequent performance improvement efforts. He has also managed project teams in the design, application development, and implementation of a wide variety of utility operational systems.

Programming Expertise

John has worked in various platforms including but not limited to servers and workstations using Informix, Oracle, MS Access, and Smallworld VMDS. Additionally, he is proficient in various software packages including Oracle Financials, MS Project, and Siebel.

John has extensive experience in Geographical Information Systems (Smallworld, MicroStation, Intergraph, ArcInfo, MapInfo, and AutoCad).

A summary of systems, databases, languages and technologies Mr. Gartside brings to service our clients include:

Business Software
Oracle Financials
Siebel
MS Project
MS Office

Databases
Informix
Oracle
MS Access
Smallworld VMDS

GIS Software
Smallworld
MicroStation
Intergraph
ArcInfo
MapInfo
AutoCad

Education

AS, Specialized Technology, Pittsburgh Technical Institute