The Gabor Gulyas Platform

A career without a straight line.

Emergency response, entrepreneurship, public service, technology, business and research — different chapters that gradually became one story.

Professional and learning journey
WHO I AM

I have never been defined by one job title.

My professional life did not follow a plan drawn in advance. I started in emergency response, where decisions had to be made quickly, communication had to be clear and responsibility was immediate. Later I built my own business and then moved into UK public service. Each environment was different, but they kept bringing me back to the same questions: how do people, processes and organisations work well together?

Over time I also learned that an answer is rarely final. It usually creates another question. That is why I keep returning to learning, and why technology, business and eventually research became increasingly important alongside practical experience.

Independent transport business
DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS, ONE PERSPECTIVE

Practice came before theory.

Emergency response, running a business and public service look very different from the outside. For me, each was about responsibility, people, decisions and understanding what actually works in practice — and what does not.

EDUCATION & LEARNING

Learning has always developed alongside the work.

I did not build a career first and then start learning. The two have always developed together. Each stage of education gave me a different way to understand questions that had already appeared in practice.

CLINICAL FOUNDATION

Paramedic / Ambulance Care Studies – Pécs

This was where I first learned what responsibility means in uncertain situations, how to work as part of a team and how to make decisions when time matters.

TECHNOLOGY

BSc (Hons) Cloud Computing – UWTSD

First Class. It added a technology perspective to practical problem-solving and helped me move from simply using systems to understanding how they are built and connected.

BUSINESS & ORGANISATIONS

MBA International Business – UWTSD

Distinction. This is where technology, operations, strategy and organisational decision-making began to connect much more clearly for me.

MBA graduation
RESEARCH

DBA – UWTSD

My current doctoral direction moves beyond asking whether organisations use AI and focuses instead on what enables that use to become sustainable business value.

EARLIER LEARNING & QUALIFICATIONS

Not all useful learning happened at university.

My earlier learning also includes computing, agricultural and security qualifications. I do not place them alongside my university degrees, but they are part of the same story: I have always tried to learn new skills and understand unfamiliar areas.

WHAT CONNECTS IT?

Curiosity, questions and the willingness to start again.

I do not see these chapters as a perfectly planned career. They are accumulated experiences — from people, work, mistakes, learning and the questions that followed. What I am doing now is trying to connect them more deliberately.

“From Experience to Evidence” is not just a motto for me. It is a short description of the direction I want to keep taking.