Don Gulling

Don Gulling is the Founder and CEO of Verteks Consulting. Don is an experienced IT professional, project manager and system architect with over 21 years of experience in the IT field. Don began his IT career in 1987, working as an application programmer for a company providing ad agencies and publishers with customized word processing and ad creation software. An interesting fact about Don that you may not know – his first IT job involved working with a combination of the newest and oldest technology, and he frequently worked with paper tape readers, 8” floppy disks – and also ultra-high-resolution digital imaging equipment.

Over the past 21+ years, Don has worked with clients in a wide array of industries - including Insurance, Banking, Medical, Government, Distribution, Transportation, and Education. Don has pursued ongoing technical education, as well as additional project management and system design training. Don is a trained and certified VoIP system designer with 19 years of experience working with VoIP for business and government. Don has extensive system design and project management experience with IT projects of all kinds – including server virtualization, application customization, network infrastructure, wireless networking, document management, storage-area-networking, and unified communications.

Don is active in improving the local community and participates in several non-profit causes. Don serves on the Board of Directors of the Marion County Boys and Girls Clubs, Grace School Board of Trustees as a member of the Development committee, Growing with Grace committee, and the Technology Task Force and was awarded the Man and Youth Award in 2002 for his efforts to improve and revitalize the Club’s technology lab and tutoring program. Don is a member of Leadership Ocala/Marion Class XXIII (The Best Class Ever), graduating in May, 2010.

Outside of work, Don enjoys spending time with his family more than anything. Don and his wife Michelle have two sons, David aged 15 and Sean aged 13.