Brett Gillan Email & Phone Number

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Helping combat veterans recover from their unseen wounds of war. Dealing with all facets of the organization from website design/security (creativets.org), payment processing, event planning/coordination, Salesforce design/implementation, songwriting with veterans, music production, teaching songwriting to veterans, strategic partnerships and more.Some partners of the organization include: Big Machine Label Group, Music Has Value, The Grand Ole Opry, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Zac Brown's Camp Southern Ground, University of Southern California (USC), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Constantly working his craft of songwriting. Has a bunch of indie artist cuts. In September of 2018, won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest with a song called "Lighthouse" in the gospel/inspirational category. In 2019, the USA Songwriting competition chose his song "Nothing Between Us" as a finalist in the country category.

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

Founding member, front-man and primary songwriter for Midwest country band. Shared the stage with nearly 100 major label acts and SOLD OUT many 1,000 capacity venues as a headliner. Highlights were playing a benefit concert with Styx, REO Speedwagon, Richard Marx, Ted Nugent, Survivor, Head East and Larry The Cable Guy. Also, playing Spring Break at Spinnaker in PCB, FL w/ Luke Bryan for 5 straight years. Did very well financially as an independent band. Brett was in charge of every aspect of the business from merchandise to web presence to media to album design and touring.

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

Developed large web applications and frameworks within a team of developers using Websphere and OO concepts.

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

Developed small to mid-size web applications (usually outside of a team setting) that interacted with DB2 databases to help business partners with their daily tasks. Some examples of applications that were built include: An absence request application (that allowed business partners to submit absences and time-off); Multiple surveys to retrieve and display feedback; A subrogation application to help State Farm’s subrogation unit keep track of outstanding balances.Began doing managerial tasks such as interviewing new candidates for web positions in the unit and conducting department wide meetings.

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

Began as a highschool intern: Developed a web-site to communicate the importance of information technology to high school students. (Web-site no longer in production)Moved on to Hardware support: Maintained computer hardware to increase business partners productivity. Tasks included: setting up workstations; installing printers, hard-drives and compact disc drives; troubleshooting hardware issues (printers and other hardware not working properly).Went back to web design: Developed small web applications to help business partners with their daily tasks. Also, found ways to improve the usability of ClaimsNet (a section of State Farm’s intranet). Conducted a survey of end-users and implemented the changes suggested.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Organizational Behavior Studies

Activities and Societies: Member of Men's Basketball Team Completed part-time study while working full-time at State Farm Insurance..

Applied Computer Science, Telecommunications Management

Activities and Societies: Member of Men's Basketball Team Multi-time recipient of Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete award.