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John Blanchard, a U.S. Navy veteran and a former IBM employee, founded National Association of System Administrators, Inc. (NASA) in 1994 to bring comprehensive, hassle-free computer maintenance to businesses at significant savings compared to what OEMs and other third-party maintenance organizations charge for their services. The company was so successful that in 1998 John launched National Association of System Administrators Corporation (NASA Corp.), a software development company, and in 1999 he founded National Association of Systems Administrators Education Corporation (NASA Education), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was created to provide tuition for deserving individuals who want to pursue IT-related careers.
NASA Education recently launched Project Fresh Start, a program that prepares displaced, disabled and other transitional workers for careers in the IT industry. John considers offering these work-study opportunities to veterans a priority. Ed Bolf, a U.S. Air Force Vietnam-era veteran who suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, completed training and accepted a position in an IT role from an International company in March. Another U.S. Air Force veteran, Ron Taucher, will soon complete training. Both men were referred to NASA Education by Pete Castillo Jr., the Disabled Veterans Outreach Program Specialist at Illinois Department of Employment Security. John Blanchard, Pete Castillo and Ron Taucher will participate in Veterans March 2006 on April 25 in
NASA’s services include 24/7 access to technical support via a toll-free phone number and a Web-based customer portal, hardware system maintenance, operating system support, disaster recovery and business continuity services, co-location services, spare parts stocking on site, proactive notification of patches and fixes and more.
NASA Corp. offers customized programming, specialty design and complete system integration as standard with all of its easy-to-use software products. NASATrack™ is a line of case management software for judicial entities (CASETrack™), customer service centers (CALLTrack™) and medical/rehabilitation facilities (CARETrack™). Each product is paired with a fully integrated Web-based interface that permits viewing of non-confidential data to the customer’s protected intranet or to the Web. These interfaces, CASEView™, CALLView™ and CAREView™, can be used with their corresponding NASATrack products or with other case management software products.
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OFFE 2008 Veteran Advocate Check Out John's Own Initiatives |
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NASA Education Summary |
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NASA Education Standown |
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NASA Spring Standown |
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