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Dave Gilligan

Private AI. Jazz rooms. Civic weather. Pataphysical field notes. IA privee. Salles de jazz. Meteo civique. Notes de terrain pataphysiques. Privat AI. Jazzrom. Samfunnsvaer. Pataphysiske feltnotater.

A bright retro paper for machine rooms, multilingual weather, Norway, family rights, live culture, and the deliberate misuse of the impossible. Un journal retro-lumineux pour les salles des machines, le temps multilingue, la Norvege, les droits familiaux, la culture vivante et l'usage delibere de l'impossible. Et lyst retroblad for maskinrom, flerspraklig vaer, Norge, familierett, levende kultur og bevisst misbruk av det umulige.
The interface changes language first. Long-form features stay in their original edition until translated. L'interface change de langue d'abord. Les longs articles restent dans leur edition d'origine pour l'instant. Grensesnittet skifter sprak forst. Langartiklene blir staende i originalutgaven til de er oversatt.
Section 11 / curriculum vitae

The formal record, but still edited like a cover story.

Finance, reinsurance, systems engineering, private AI, multilingual business study, and children's-rights advocacy belong on one page only if the through-line is legible: build the machinery, understand the money, keep the language human.

Current Mandates
The live front of the work: one civic desk, one Norwegian ENK, one AI infrastructure house.
2026 to present Owner Philadelphia to Paris, with EU infrastructure

Blue Note Logic Inc

Private AI platforms, document intelligence, and sovereign infrastructure designed to turn working knowledge into owned systems rather than rented dependency.

Current work centers on CorpusAI, document-grounded retrieval, corporate memory extraction, and EU-hosted deployments that keep data, models, and outcomes under client control.

Source: Blue Note Logic official sites
2025 to present CEO & Founder Kongsberg, Norway

Do Better Norge

A civic and advocacy organization focused on parental rights, children's rights, due process, and the treatment of immigrant and international families in Norway.

The public work includes rights explainers, source-based legal materials, media-facing advocacy, and a broader reform effort aimed at family unity and procedural fairness.

Source: Do Better Norge
2018 to present Owner Kongsberg, Norway

Gilligan TECH ENK

AI systems engineering for Nordic SMBs: architectural audits, system builds, and fractional CTO support anchored in practical ROI rather than consultant theatre.

The current Gilligan Tech positioning is explicit about sovereign European AI, dedicated infrastructure, and the mix of strategy, SQL, RAG, transcription, and deployment work needed to make AI useful in the real world.

Source: Gilligan Tech
Career Record
Earlier chapters are kept compact here so the timeline stays readable without losing the hard details.
2013 to 2016

Oslo, Norway

Kvaerner

Technical Consultant - Finance

Worked with corporate finance, HR, purchasing, cost estimating, MS SQL Server, Promineo, and QlikView to make large industrial bid and cost systems more useful to decision-makers.

  • Reported to the Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance.
  • Helped build the Cost Estimating Project (CEM), a major change in how tenders were issued for offshore platforms and jackets.
  • Linked finance logic, operational data, and what-if analysis across multiple departments.
2008 to 2011

United States

Chloe & Colin

Owner

Operated a general IT consultancy serving small businesses and organizations across practical technology needs before the current AI era.

  • Worked as a hands-on generalist across infrastructure, applications, websites, databases, and operational problem-solving.
  • Helped clients improve reliability, efficiency, and day-to-day use of their systems without unnecessary complexity.
  • A broad-spectrum owner-operator chapter that fills the gap between larger corporate roles and later venture work.
2006 to 2007

Hamilton, Bermuda

Ariel Re

Assistant Vice President

Built the IT support structure for AIR and RMS catastrophe risk modeling and ran stochastic analysis on large insured property portfolios.

  • Worked at the junction of underwriters, analysts, and internal software teams.
  • Supported catastrophe modeling across hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, and other modeled events.
2001 to 2006

New York City, New York

Folksamerica / White Mountains Re

Assistant Secretary

Analyzed property treaty reinsurance risk while helping design the infrastructure around large-scale actuarial and underwriting work.

  • Worked closely with senior management, underwriters, and actuarial staff on pricing and risk analysis.
  • Helped shape a multi-tiered risk management environment with roughly 30 data-analysis engines and 4 MS SQL database servers.
  • Supported both Windows client and IIS-based global web interfaces.
1998 to 1999

Paris, France

Zurich France / Zurich Financial Services

Intern for CFO

Graduate internship in the CFO's orbit during the French Franc to Euro transition and the Year 2000 remediation cycle.

  • Worked on specialist project teams related to Euro conversion and Y2K readiness.
  • Built the "Euro 1999" client and partner sub-site in Lotus Notes.
Source Notes
Current roles are paraphrased from official sites. Earlier employment history is grounded in the standing public profile and your supplied LinkedIn text.
Current public profile API

Used for the standing public experience history, headline language, education chronology, and contact references from the current local site.

Gilligan Tech

Used for the current Gilligan TECH ENK positioning, Kongsberg-based identity, and the AI Dispatch / Systems Forge / Systems Command model.

Blue Note Logic / CorpusAI

Used for the current Blue Note Logic mandate around private AI, document intelligence, and source-cited retrieval.

Do Better Norge

Used for the public advocacy scope around parental rights, children, family unity, and due process in Norway.