Jim Gardner Can Write The Book On Communications

摘要

In the field of wireless automation, Jim Gardner is well known as a leader and an innovator. His employer, OleumTech, founded in 2000 and based in Irvine, CA, provides wireless solutions for applications in a host of industries, such as pipelines, refining, petrochemicals, utilities and water/wastewater. In fact, Gardner's middle name could be communicator. Whatever fashion he chooses, the Seattle, WA native knows how to get his message across. As we learn in this interview, that message describes the urgency to use advanced technology in the energy industry, along with an attitude that ultimately nothing is impossible. Gardner did his undergraduate work courtesy of the GI Bill at the University of Washington. In 1976, his GI Bill benefits had run out so to earn money for graduate school, he packed his duffle bag, bought a one-way ticket to Anchorage and went to work on the Trans Alaskan Pipeline. After working on drilling rigs in Prudhoe Bay as a roughneck, he took a laborer posi- tion with AMF Tuboscope, which did electronic pipe inspection for the drill pipe used on the rigs.