Michael Blonsky

Current

VP of Services and Support at GoingOn

Past

VP of US Operations at earthfaves AG
VP Operations at PacketTrap Networks
Senior Manager of Virtual Appliances and ISV Solutions at VMware

Director of Advanced Solutions at Cast Iron Systems
Senior Solution Architect at Zaplet, Inc.
Manager at Hitachi Consulting (Grant Thornton)
Senior Systems Architect at Naviant
Senior Consultant at Accenture
Programmer Analyst/Systems Analyst at VIPS, Inc.

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Education

Johns Hopkins University
Tufts University
Hackley School

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Michael Blonsky’s Summary

Michael is a veteran technologist who has 18+ years of operations, business development, software sales, software architecture, software development and consulting experience with firms like VMware, Grant Thornton and Accenture.

Michael joined the GoingOn team to lead the company's services and support organization and ensure a world-class experience for all of GoingOn's customers around the globe. Michael is a veteran of several Silicon Valley software companies and startups. His experience includes directing the efforts around building out the Virtual Appliances initiative for VMware (NASDAQ: VMW). By developing a successful ISV outreach program, Michael helped define a new category of software solutions. Prior to the last 11 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael spent 8 years in technology consulting with firms like Accenture and Grant Thornton.Michael holds a M.S. in Business and Technology from Johns Hopkins University.

Michael Blonsky’s Experience

VP of Services and Support

GoingOn

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)

GoingOn is a leading provider of open-source Social Learning solutions. Our mission is rooted in the belief that knowledge is socially constructed and that learning is best achieved through dialog, collaboration and transparent sharing of information. To this end, we seek to extend traditional eLearning systems, by providing the fastest and most affordable way for organizations to deploy social learning communities where participants can connect, contribute and collaborate. Designed for educational and corporate environments, GoingOn communities can be deployed as a stand-alone environment for both online and blended learning, or can be tightly integrated with existing LCMS/LMS systems. GoingOn is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support on top of a Drupal and Moodle-based software foundation. Our commitment to the open-source model allows us to utilize the efforts and innovation of thousands of developers, while at the same time ensuring that our solution is affordable, non-proprietary and continually evolving to meet best practices. GoingOn is an active contributor to the Open Educational Research (OER) effort and is committed to working with non-profits in the area of global education.
VP of US Operations

earthfaves AG

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

May 2009 — August 2009 (4 months)

earthfaves has been in business since 2007, was conceived and bootstrapped by a group of ex-SAP talent that has been quietly building an incredible new platform that adds a useful layer to the social networks that are currently exploding around the globe.

earthfaves is a platform that allows businesses to effectively build a community of promoters. earthfaves plugs into existing social networks and allows people to recommend their favorite places (restaurants, hotels, taverns, parks, virtually anything) to their network of friends. earthfaves allows people to perform "social searches" and find things to do, places to go, and amazing adventures that their network of trusted friends have favored. This social search delivers banded results that show earthfaves of a person's friends, friends-of-friends, subject matter experts, and then general Google search results. Instead of getting millions of results that were ranked by a third-party, users of earthfaves get trusted search results that leverage the collective intelligence and similar tastes of the people in their social networks.
VP Operations

PacketTrap Networks

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

August 2007 — May 2009 (1 year 10 months)

PacketTrap Networks is a provider of IT network management and reporting solutions, including free IT network management tools, and affordable enterprise-class network analytics, diagnostics, discovery, monitoring, and endpoint management platforms.
Senior Manager of Virtual Appliances and ISV Solutions

VMware

(Public Company; VMW; Computer Software industry)

February 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Responsible for starting up and building out the virtual appliances initiative for VMware (NASDAQ: VMW). Planned and executed all of the virtual appliance evangelism initiatives globally for VMware and was responsible for defining and managing the VMware Certified Virtual Appliance Program.
Director of Advanced Solutions

Cast Iron Systems

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

November 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 3 months)

Senior member of the Services organization. Responsible for both pre-sales and post-sales technical details of all key customer engagements globally.
Senior Solution Architect

Zaplet, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

February 2000 — October 2002 (2 years 9 months)

Lead Zaplet’s Solutions Architecture team and helped deliver the Zaplet Appmail Server to key enterprise customers. Assisted in architecting the Zaplet Appmail Server and the Zaplet Development Environment. Provided technical support to the business development process.
Manager

Hitachi Consulting (Grant Thornton)

(Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

June 1998 — February 2000 (1 year 9 months)

Managed the netSolutions consulting practice in the Bay Area. Responsible for business development and project delivery at several key accounts.
Senior Systems Architect

Naviant

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 5 months)

Lead architect for an Intranet based one-to-one marketing system based on a 2 million customer data mart for the Wealth Management Department of Royal Trust of Canada. Managed a team of five Java developers.
Senior Consultant

Accenture

(Public Company; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1994 — February 1997 (3 years 2 months)

Senior member of technical team responsible for delivering two, large-scale Multimedia Goal-Based Business Simulations for GE Capital. Designed and implemented an object-oriented application architecture and framework that was used to develop several Multimedia Business Simulations (using Object Pascal, Visual Basic and various multimedia libraries).
Programmer Analyst/Systems Analyst

VIPS, Inc.

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1991 — June 1994 (3 years )

Founding member of the R&D Group tasked with architecting a client-server approach to handling offline data analysis of complex mainframe data (used for audit and compliance). Member of implementation teams for large-scale mainframe system conversions at Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina and Transamerica Insurance in Los Angeles.

Michael Blonsky’s Education

Johns Hopkins University

MS , Telecommunication and Information Systems for Business , September 1993 — August 1995
Tufts University

MS , Art History and Architectural Studies , August 1987 — May 1991
Hackley School

1977 — 1987