Doug Blankenship

Doug Blankenship.. I am currently working for a global container shipping company out of Tampa Florida as a Sr. IS Messaging Administrator.  I am origionally from East Tennesse and graduated from East Tennessee State University with a BS in Engineering with a minor in Computer Science.  I worked on the campus labs and got my first taste for networking with a peer-to-peer DOS based network call LANtastic.  After graduation, I was state certified to design residental and commerical facilities but quickly found that, after a internship, I would need a second job to pay my bills.  I was fortunate to find my first (real) job with the Tennessee Center for R&D where I got exposure to a substantial amount of various technologies and also had the opportunity to work in many different areas of businees to include purchasing, project management, marketing, and design.  Thank you Jerry Christian and George Dilworth for giving me a chance to grow and taking a newbe under wing. Over the next fifteen years, I worked with alot of great people and have been through some interesting times but have no regreats and love what I do for a living.

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