Donald Slanec

Donald Slanec has a diverse work experience spanning across various roles and industries. Donald is currently working as a Senior Sales Engineer at Chef Software since March 2021. Prior to this, they worked at New Relic, Inc. as a Solutions Consultant from July 2016 to March 2021. In this role, they were responsible for driving technical wins in the sale of New Relic's platform, supporting deals and account representatives, and identifying new revenue streams. Before that, Donald served as a Capacity & IT Performance Management Consultant at UnitedHealth Group from November 2014 to July 2016. Donald played a crucial role in implementing and expanding the New Relic monitoring environment for Healthcare.gov and United Health Group. Donald also has experience as a Senior Systems Management Consultant at Robert Half Technology, a Project Manager at Patterson Dental, an APM Guardian Consultant at Compuware, a Customer Support Representative at Thomson Reuters, and a Realtor at Keller Williams Realty.

Donald Slanec attended L'Anse Creuse High School from 2003 to 2007. Donald then pursued a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Information Assurance from Eastern Michigan University and completed it from 2007 to 2010. Following that, Donald pursued a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree with a focus on Accounting and Finance at the University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management from 2015 to 2019. In addition to their formal education, they obtained various certifications including ITIL V3 Foundations from EXIN in May 2011, A+ from CompTIA in June 2007, and Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services in August 2018.