Eugene W. Blasko

*** ******** ***** • Ten Mile, TN 37880 • 865-***-**** (C)

geno.blasko @gmail.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

A seasoned IT professional with a proven track record of highlighting and resolving issues in a diverse

technical environment and coordinating team efforts for installations, upgrades and problem resolution.

Possesses excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell and Berkowitz Knoxville, TN

Engineering Services Manager (2006 July 2014) Network Engineer (1996-2006)

Responsible for managing and mentoring nine engineers and twelve technicians to include all

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phases of interviewing, hiring, providing annual performance reviews and salary

recommendations as well as developing yearly staffing plan.

Daily responsibilities were 60 70% hands on engineering/system administration and 30 40%

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supervision

Voting member of the Change Control Board which reviewed and approved changes to the IT

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environment.

Participated in Mobile Device Management including Blackberry, iPhone, android, iPad and

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similar technologies.

Facilitated numerous office moves to new facilities including both data centers. Coordinated and

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managed all phases of construction, Telco circuit relocation and cur over, and equipment move

and installation.

Was a major participant in designing and implementing our Business Continuance/Disaster

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Recovery infrastructure

Responsibilities include performing data center activities, including physical installation and

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cabling of new hardware, performing root cause analysis for VMware ESX hosts, Virtual Center

and physical and virtual Windows servers,

Provide support in configuration, performance monitoring, back ups, reporting problem

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identification, management, and resolution for the VMware environment

• Virtualization POC done with a combination of Microsoft VirtualPC 2005/VirtualPC2007 and the

various free versions of VMware that sat on top of Windows Server. This was in the days before

the Hypervisor.

• Installed a new Compellent SAN in both primary and secondary data centers. Set up to support

both fiber channel and iSCSI connections. Fiber Channel was set up through a pair of redundant

20 port Qlogic switches. Installed the first four VMware hosts at each location during this time.

• Installed 12 Compellent SANs and a pair of Vmware hosts in 12 remote office locations.

Virtualized hosts at each locations. Most were done with VMware's P2V conversion tool. Many

of the large, critical servers were converted using our NeverFail Disaster Recovery software in an

effort to minimize outages.

• Installed and configured most of the approximately 50 VMware hosts in the environment.

VMware management was done through a linlked mode pair of vCenter servers. I have

additional experience building, upgrading and recovering vCenter servers.

• Was responsible for designing and implementing our DR/BC efforts using NeverFail . We started

with our most vulnerable sites. These were Washington DC, New Orleans, Mandeville and Baton

Rouge.

Our NeverFail environment supported 200+ DR/BC server pairs which were 99% VMs. This was

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the largest single installation of NeverFail in the US

Successfully managed a 13 city replacement of the entire server infrastructure while

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simultaneously converting from a Novell based environment to a Microsoft server based

environment.

Designed and deployed a firm wide 10 server RightFax solution to provide desktop faxing.

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Responded to the 2005 Katrina event and opened a new office in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in

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order to keep our New Orleans operation functioning while we prepared to reopen our New

Orleans office.

Theta Systems Oak Ridge, TN

Network Engineer/Consultant (1995 1996)

• Engineering of enterprise network designs at customer requests

• Trouble shooting and problem resolution of elusive customer network issues

• Evaluation of new network technologies, management, and analytical tools

• Provide core OS support to customers

Amoco Performance Products Augusta, GA

Network Engineer (1991 1994)

• Evaluated, designed, and implemented the first local area network at this manufacturing location.

• After a successful pilot in the administration building, the design was spread to the rest of the four

plant facility.

• Responsible for managing the facilities infrastructure.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Network Systems and Support Software

Novell Netware 3.x/4.x, Microsoft Windows NT 3.51, 4.0, and 2000, Microsoft Server 2003, 2008, 2008R2,

VMWare 4.x/5.x, vCenter 4.x/5.x, vCenter Converter, vCenter CLI, VMWare workstation 7.x/8.x, CactiEZ,

VMTurbo

Cisco and Nortel routers and switches, Raptor, Watchguard and Fortinet Firewalls, Nortel Option 11C

PBX, Cisco VoIP

Active Directory, Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2003, Blackberry Enterprise Server Good Technology,

Microsoft SQL server 6.5/2000/2005/2008, Citrix

NeverFail Heartbeat Failover Engine, NeverFail IT Continuity Architect, Evault Backup. Veeam Backup &

Replication, Backup Exec, Dell Compellent SAN, Nexsan SAN, Drobo Storage

Application Software

OpenText eDocs, Microsoft Office, Summation, MailMarshall, Vipre, Sophos Endpoint Security, Symantec

Anti Virus, Omtool Accuroute, Crescendo Digital Dictation, RightFax, Zantaz EAS, eFax, Immigration

Tracker, Mimecast, DTEAxiom

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