CEO of a small company doing big things.
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
- Current
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- CEO at The Garland Group
- Past
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- Call Center Supervisor at Telvista
- Technical Support Rep. at CompUSA
- Education
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- University of North Texas
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Brad Garland’s Summary
My expertise is where people and technology collide.
My goal is to change the financial industry as we know it by creating sites like Banktastic.com that break down the walls of sharing knowledge in the banking industry and improving the individual through the support of many.
My passion is for the Web and how it is fundamentally changing our society today. Social media is changing the way we conduct business and our customers now have the control over our image and I pride myself on understanding those niches and where technology can fit and where it doesn't.
Although I hold the title of CEO I'm always working to be better and always have something to learn. I'm blessed to have a strong team and family around me to help along my career.
Brad Garland’s Specialties:
Social Media, Internet technologies, SaaS, Business Development, Web Apps, Core Systems, Ancillary Products from branch to backoffice to web, AS/400, social media application, social software, blogging, Infrastructure, Wires, Operations, ACH, thin client architecture, WANs
Brad Garland’s Experience
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CEO
The Garland Group
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2004 — Present (4 years 6 months)
My role is to lead this organization and to set a vision for the continuing growth of our company. I wear many hats but all our people do. Our goal is to provide a solid, dead-simple yet comprehensive software and services to our clients.
We are a IT software and services firm that works directly in the financial institution market.
Our consulting services consists of FFIEC technology reviews, risk assessments, and IT security testing (penetration testing, vulnerability assessments and social engineering).
On the software side, we build products exclusively for bankers. We currently have two products, one is a social software product for bankers called Banktastic.com & the other is a risk assessment tool called RiskKey.com. -
Call Center Supervisor
Telvista
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 2005 (7 years)
Originally hired as a Technical Support Rep. and did that while attending college. Once I received my bachelor's degree, I quickly got promoted to full-time trainer where I trained agents to do their jobs. Then, within a 6 month timeframe, I was promoted to supervisor where I managed a team of 40 agents and oversaw all their work, performance reviews, etc.
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Technical Support Rep.
CompUSA
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1998 — May 2002 (4 years 5 months)
Provided technical support expertise for a variety of companies from Internet companies to hardware/software companies.
Brad Garland’s Education
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University of North Texas
Bachelors, Communication, Computer Science, 2000 — 2004
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Brad Garland’s Interests:
New Technology, The 'new' Web, compliance, security, banking, running businesses, soccer, Apple
Brad Garland’s Groups:
ISACA, TBA, IBAT, ICBA, DAC, Banktastic, BarCampBank
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