(photo) John Gilman joined the BioInformatics department in August of 1999 as the Network Administrator.
He graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology after attending the University of New Hampshire and New Hampshire Technical Institute. After graduation, John continued to avoid life in a cubicle by working in the high voltage power distribution field constructing power lines. Then, on a cool sunny fall day in 1990, while stringing high voltage wire while hanging upside down from 200 feet in the air and with only his safety belt preventing gravity’s victory, he decided life in a cubicle had its appeal, after all so he gave his notice and returned to NH.
From there, John went to work for an Autodesk software reseller providing technical support. In 1995, tired of the traffic and ‘big city life’ in Southern N.H. and Massachusetts, he moved back to his home town of Lincoln, NH and spent three years as the Technology Coordinator for the public school there. In the summer of 1998, he moved his family to the Upper Valley to work at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center as the NT Systems Administrator in the midst of a system-wide Mac-to-PC migration project before finally being enticed to join the BioInformatics group.
John lives across the river in Vermont where he and his wife Julie are kept busy raising their four wonderful children and renovating the house that owns them (does anyone really own their house?). He enjoys playing soccer, skiing (both X-Country and downhill), traveling, playing "Power Rangers" with his children and when possible, having a quiet night out with the wife. Without the children.
"Don't say can't"
