Derick Blankenship
Derick’s contact information:
dblankenship@powerplaydestination.com
1066 West Hastings, Suite 2000
Vancouver, BC, V6E 3X2 Canada
Main: +1 (778) 373-5550
Fax: +1 604-669-3844
Permanent Status:
Before I started this job I use to ride my bike over 200 miles a week!
What most people would never guess about me?
I worked on the Hubble Space Telescope Ground Control System for three years.
Basic Information:
Birthday:February 24
Hometown:Waynesville, NC
Education:
College:Western Carolina University ’89
Major:Computers and Finance
High School:Tuscola Senior High School ’84
Interests:
Family, Camping, Music, Playing Guitar, Cycling (Mtn. and Road), Programming, Catching up with friends, Working in the yard, Muscle Cars and Fly-fishing
Favorite Music:
too many to list
Favorite TV Shows:
Lost
Official Biography:
Over the last eighteen years I have had the pleasure to work in an exciting industry that has brought about “Global Change” in the way we work, communicate and live. I have served in many “client facing” roles as a technical liaison, and I bring to the table a wealth of experience from some of the most definitive corporations and government departments/agencies.
Leveraging strong technical and leadership skills coupled with a strategic work approach has resulted in a successful career designing, deploying and managing enterprise web application infrastructure projects and solutions.
Corporations:
* IBM
* EDS
* MCI
* Michelin
* The Bank of New York Mellon
* NASA
* Department of Defense (DOD)
Specialties
* Drupal, Joomla, WordPress,WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server
* Apache, IHS
* Google Analytics, Mercury LoadRunner, AWstats
* Eclipse, ASC, ANT, XML, XHMTL, CSS, JavaScript
* Perl, Shell, Jacl, Java, PHP,
* IBM WebSphere Process Server
* LDAP
* DB2, Oracle, SQL, MySQL
* BMC Patrol
* Tivoli Enterprise Management, Tivoli Work Scheduler
* AIX, SUN Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, SGI IRIX
Memberships and Organizations:
E-Commerce network, Social Media Club, WebSphere, SMEs
Accolades:
IBM Distinguished Engineer; NASA: Outstanding Commitment Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 3; SANS Institute, GSEC IT Security Certification; EDS, Systems Engineering Development Program.
