Nicholas Donathan Email & Phone Number

Who else got in trouble for taking their family’s PC apart when they were young? I know I did! I also managed to eventually get that computer back together with a lot of trial and error. The lesson I learned all those years ago was that failure is to be expected and that as long as you learn from it, you can get a lot of value from failure. It’s not the end of the world. Eventually, with enough failures, I learned to experiment while keeping the collateral as isolated as possible… most of the time anyway. The success of eventually getting that computer together and working sent me on the path I’m still walking along today. I have been working on computers for pretty much as long as I can remember now. My career started on my first day in high school. I showed up at 6:30 every day to work at the help desk before going to my normal class schedule. I spent some time converting some simple applications from pascal to c++. Soon after graduating, I went to work for Xerox. I spent 13 years in all kinds of job positions. Everything from Sr Network Administrator to Virtualization SME. I got to do everything from installing hundreds of servers, SANS, and network equipment to deploying a global managed file transfer platform. Xerox split in 2018 and I went with the new company, Conduent. There I started to focus on data center migration/consolidation, private/public cloud operations, and large-scale remote workforce through VDI. More recently, I was able to join a great team at Arkansas Bluecross and I’m excited to bring all my experience back to a company based in my home state.