About Sugarolly Mountain
We are an IT Management Consultancy with over 30 years of experience in IT strategy, project management, solution design, development, and maintenance.
With our cloud-native and agile-first approach, we offer expertise that spans from idea incubation and product design to strategies for delivering Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) through to fully featured customer focused solutions. Our capabilities extend to providing framework and implementation plans for fully-featured transformational solutions.
Our experience encompasses a diverse range of customers, including State & Local Governments, large and small enterprises, and education institutions.
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The Sugarolly Mountain Story
Sugarolly Mountain was the nickname for a dumping ground for chemical waste near the old Monklands canal in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland. Local children including my dad and his brothers and sisters used the area as their playground, sliding down it on bits of cardboard.
The name “Sugarolly” comes from sugarolly water, which was a homemade drink made by mixing liquorice with water (or lemonade). The waste mounds got their name by either having a smell similar to liquorice or because they in some way looked like liquorice.
The name resonated with me due to two main reasons:
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it is a connection to my dad and his family and as I get older that connection seems more important than ever.
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I just like that even in such poverty where a chemical and coal waste dump is your playground the local kids still had the joy and playful spirit to call it something joyful such as Sugarolly.
A big thank you to my uncle Jim McCluskey for sharing part of his history with me.
Get to Know Us
Kieran McCluskey
I still remember the first time I saw a home computer. It was the summer of 1982 in England, and like most summer holidays, my brother, sister, and I spent a couple of weeks at my Uncle Rob and Aunt Chris's house with our cousins. Uncle Rob's next-door neighbour was Mike Angus, and on that fateful day back in July, I walked into his house, and my life changed forever. Mike had a BBC Micro 32, and I spent the rest of the holidays in front of it, learning and playing as much as I could. It was at that point I knew I wanted to work with computers.
Later that year, my parents bought me the same computer for Christmas. I excitedly pulled it apart and showed them every component, explaining what each part did. It was only years later, hearing the story from their perspective, that it dawned on me that their 12-year-old child had disassembled the most expensive thing they had ever bought or owned, using the back of a kitchen fork. Neither of them could breathe or relax until I had put it back together and turned it on to demonstrate that it still worked.
I spent many days and nights in front of my BBC Micro 32, building apps, writing code, upgrading components, and thoroughly enjoying myself. I even wrote a few programs for my aunt and uncle's business.
Now, 40 years later, I still enjoy collaborating with people to explore how we can use technology to improve their lives and the lives of their customers. While the technology has changed, my deep joy in working with it and helping others remains as strong as ever.