Glen Gardner
Executive Recruiter President at Gardner Innovation Search Partners
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGlen Gardner is a veteran executive recruiter and president with over 25 years building specialized search practices in technology transfer, IP licensing, and innovation leadership, now leading Gardner Innovation Search Partners from Columbus, Ohio. He has placed senior talent across universities, national labs, startups, and venture groups worldwide, drawing on deep domain expertise developed at his prior firm, Vortechs Group, which served marquee clients like MIT, Duke, Argonne, and Houston Methodist. A former submarine-qualified Machinist Mate and nuclear-trained engineer, Glen pairs disciplined operational rigor with a knack for translating technical specialization into strategic hires. He also contributes practical developer-facing examples to open-source (e.g., CoreWCF) that reflect an appreciation for engineering detail and documentation. Known for a consultative, process-driven approach, he combines sales and training experience with a long track record of scaling recruiting programs for complex technical organizations.
9 years of coding experience
Mechanical Nuclear Power Plant Operations, Mechanical Nuclear Power Plant Operations at Nuclear Power School - Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC)BS Nuclear Engineering Technology, BS Nuclear Engineering Technology at Thomas Edison State UniversityManagement Certificate Program, Management Certificate Program at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
Github Skills (8)
asp-net10
net10
dotnet10
wcf10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
soap10
webservice9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CoreWCF/CoreWCF
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Main repository for the Core WCF project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Glen primarily contributed to the Core WCF project by adding example code to demonstrate the use of Web Request for making SOAP requests. They added and modified code samples in C# to interact with WCF services using both the standard WCF client and WebRequest-based approaches. The user refactored samples to include both WCF and HTTP client tests, and also introduced complex type examples. The user also added Postman collections and documentation.
corewcfwcf
lastfm/lastfm-windows-desktop
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:99 commits in 1 month
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