Donald Turbanisch

Donald Turbanisch has over 16 years of experience in the IT industry. Donald is currently working as the Director of IT Security & Infrastructure at MEI Pharma since October 2022. Prior to that, they served as the Sr. Manager IT, Infrastructure at Pacific Biosciences from March 2020 to September 2022. Donald also worked as the Sr. Manager IT, Infrastructure at American Specialty Health from May 2017 to March 2020.

Before joining American Specialty Health, Donald held various roles including IT Infrastructure Manager at Sequenom, Inc., Senior Systems Engineer at Atomic Data, and IT Manager at BofI Federal Bank. Donald also worked as a Business Systems Engineer at Bridgepoint Education and served as a Technical Customer Services Liaison at Golden Hour Data Systems.

Donald began their career in the industry at Time Warner Cable as a Business Technical Services representative. Throughout their career, they have gained expertise in implementing and managing infrastructure systems, network design and deployment, virtualization, and security solutions.

Donald Turbanisch attended Ashford University from 2012 to 2014, where they obtained a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Business Information Systems. Prior to that, they studied at the University of Phoenix, earning an Associate of Arts (A.A.) degree in Information Technology. In terms of additional certifications, Turbanisch has completed the VMware Certified Professional 6 - Network Virtualization (VCP6-NV) program at VMware in August 2019. Donald also obtained the VMware Certified Professional 6 - DCV certification in March 2017, the CCNA Security certification from Cisco in December 2015, and the CCNP Data Center certification from Cisco in July 2015. Other certifications include the VMware Certified Professional 5.5 - DCV (March 2015), Red Hat Certified Engineer (2013), Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (2013), VMware Certified Professional 5.1 - DCV (December 2012), ITIL Foundations v3 (no specific completion date provided), MCITP - Windows 2008 Server Administrator (no specific completion date provided), MCSE - Windows 2012 Server Infrastructure (no specific completion date provided), MCTS - Windows 7 (no specific completion date provided), NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (no specific completion date provided), and VMware Certified Professional 4.1 - DCV (no specific completion date provided).