Garry Putland Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, Us

Just recently a client who was experimenting with our Mixed Reality Health Care Apps said, 'I must have the best job in the world.' When I asked why, she said, 'I must hear so many oohs and ahhs when showing our products'. Its true, I have a great sales job helping clients to go beyond the ohhs and ahhs to combining people, pedagogy and technology to create powerful 3D immersive experiences for their learnersGIGXR is a company created by the recent spinout of the Extended Reality(XR) assets of Pearson Education including personnel. The company offers a SaaS Platform and Library for XR education and training in medical, nursing, health science, and anatomy schools in higher education, vocational education, hospitals, industry, government and college prep markets. Our health care Mixed Reality applications started with two innovative products, HoloPatient and HoloHuman and now has a platform with another 8 appliations. HoloScenario-Respiratory, Basic and Advance Cardiac Life Support, Dicom XR Library, Insight Heart, Lung and Kidney and Conversational AI. Combined, these applications address clinical skills practice, anatomy and physiology learning. They are designed to replicate, enhance and extend already existing pedagogical approaches. Our tools support active and collaborative learning, simulation and visualisation of 3D concepts. The experiences are available on the Microsoft Hololens 2 device.Simulation is recognised internationally as a safe and effective way to teach health and science professionals. Our goal is to grow our Library for XR content to engage educators and learners to achieve better outcomes.We have customers in the United States, Australia/New Zealand, UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan and UAE. Our team includes highly experienced educators, curriculum developers, educational technologists and XR developers. The company is headquartered in Venice, California. I am based in Australia.

Pearson Immersive Learning is an innovative group whose vision is to transform learning through the innovative use of immersive technologies. The Head of Global Sales is responsible for the development of sales of VR/AR/MR educational content in key regions initially including Asia, Australia/New Zealand, UK/Europe and US/Canada. Microsoft and Pearson have partnered to develop the educational content and the role nurtures and builds on this relationship. The role will build sales channels and reseller arrangements to achieve our goals. Pearson Immersive are leaders in the field of educational content in VR/AR and 360 deg video and the role will build and expand on this leadership role. The role will contribute and develop the marketing strategy to be successful provider of educational VR/AR/MR content.

Pearson is the world's leading learning company, with over 40,000 employees in more than 80 countries, working to help people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives through learning. We put the learner at the heart of everything we do. We provide consulting services to help educational institutions, schools, leaders, teachers and learners to achieve their goals and are committed to your success through our efficacy framework. Our expertise spans learning materials, online learning and management platforms, diagnostic, formative and summative assessment systems and professional services.

London, Gb

Build & develop online platform and service sales at institutional levelResearch, prospect, qualify, tender and secure institutional contracts/projects.Build trusted & profitable relationships with senior institutional/policy decision markersUndertake a consultative solutions selling process to identify opportunitiesCollaboratively develop solutions drawing on local and global teams.

Consulting in strategy, trends, policy impact and leadership;Analysis of complex issues related to technology adoption and uptake including recommendations.Designing and implementation of innovative solutions using technology for the workplace, learning and teaching;Brokering connections and negotiating key relationships for business opportunities;Presenting and facilitating workshops and seminars

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Dulwich, Sa, Au

Represented education.au nationally and internationally on technology led initiatives.Consulted with and provided strategic advice to stakeholdersManaged a team to achieve targets set by the Board.Initiated, designed and led 3 successful funding bids for national online projects.Worked for the European Commission as an international reviewer on a pan-European digital learning project Lead evaluator for the FP7 round of funding for digital projects in Europe for the European Commission.

Dulwich, Sa, Au

Established and led a Business Development unit within education.auProvided strategic advice to senior leadership and the Board.Developed and built key stakeholder relationships nationally and internationally.

Dulwich, Sa, Au

Project Director of national services including Edna, Education Portal and .edu.au domain.Coordinate development of services with key stakeholders.Manage team to develop and implement services.Manage contracts with funding agency and vendors.

Dulwich, Sa, Au

National coordination of the development of Edna serviceNational engagement with stakeholders in each education sector (ie Schools VET and Higher Education)Manage the development of the Edna servicesmanage contracts with external suppliers

Garry was an international reviewer for a pan-European national e-learning project Kaleidoscope from 2004-2008, an evaluator for e-Research projects in Technology Enhanced Learning in 2009 for the European Commission.

Strategic Development of ICTs for schools and the Catholic Education OfficeManaged implementation of Networked System for OfficeRepresented Catholic Education nationally on Edna Reference Committee and Schools Advisory Group

Curriculum Coordinator - TechnologyYear Level CoordinatorICT and Network ManagerTeacher - Senior Physics, Senior Mathematics, Senior Information Technology, Computing and Science.Timetabling

Graduate Diploma In Information Systems

Graduate Diploma Of Education, Secondary Education

Bachelor Of Science, Physics, Mathematics