Walter G. Pasko

Walter G. Pasko age 70, died peacefully on Friday August 18, 2017 at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is survived by his fiancée Rachelle Faul, his sister and brother-in-law Joanne and Ron Sanna and his step-daughter and son-in-law Julie and Bob Brinkman, and many friends. He is preceded in death by his parents Walter E. Pasko and Rita F. Morissey Pasko. He was born in Brooklyn New York. The family moved to Wharton, New Jersey where he attended elementary and high school. After high school he joined the Air Force where he trained to be a communication equipment repairman. He served in Vietnam and was Honorably Discharged in June of 1971. He worked in computer programming, development and maintenance thru- out his career with Burroughs Corp, Harris Corp, SEC and Encore. He rose to Corporate Manager and worked with flight simulators for the military and NASA shuttles. He also had his own business – P. C. Enterprises for many years.

He enjoyed 32 years of sobriety, many of them riding with a sober motorcycle club. He trained in blacksmithing with the John C. Campbell Folk School for several years and had a continuing interest in the craft. He was also an avid shooter and enjoyed firearms from a young age. He traveled extensively world-wide with work and thru much of the United States on motorcycle.

Walter’s funeral will take place Saturday August 26 at Kraeer Funeral Home at 200 N. Federal Hwy, Pompano Beach, Florida. Visitation is from 10:30am to 12:30pm. The Funeral service will follow at 12:30pm presided by Father Anthony Mulderry from Saint Gabriel’s Catholic Church. Burial will be Monday August 28 at 1:45pm at South Florida National Cemetery, 6501 St Rd 7 Lake Worth, Florida. Walter supported the Salvation Army for many years, please make any donations you wish to your local charities.

Walter G. Pasko Most Recent Resume

Experience:

Encore Computer Corp. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Manager Professional Services/Custom Support 1990 to Present

As manager of Professional Services I am responsible for the

management of a department of 20 people world wide. The duties

include the management and direct technical involvement with the

selling, evaluating, proposing and executing of the projects and

programs bid by the group. This can range from a simple upgrade to a

complex multi-year application project. I am also responsible for

generating product offerings which can be delivered by field personnel

and easily sold by field sales personnel. To date I have been able to

generate about 350 Professional Service products with model

numbers. These products and projects provide substantial independent

revenue and mainline product drag. All of the Fortune 500 integrators

and many commercial names such as Sherwin Williams are satisfied

Encore Professional Services customers.

Gould Computer Systems Division Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Manager of World Wide HW & SW Support 1986 to 1990

As manager of Gould's World Wide Support organization, I was

responsible for Hardware and Software technical support in every

country. Gould / SEL in its three decade history has over 8,000

customers world wide. My group was responsible for solving all aspects

of customer product issues. These included design changes, marketing

strategy, customer satisfaction, and sales assistance.

Gould Computer Systems Division Ft. Lauderdale , Florida

Manager of HW Support 1984 to 1986

As manager of the Hardware Technical Support group, I was

responsible tor all hardware product issues. These included design

participation, engineering interface on Beta, and post FCS engineering

support, The duties included maintenance of customer satisfaction

indices at the high plus level.

Gould I Computer Systems Division Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Technical Support 1980 to 1984

Technical Support Engineer in charge of the 32/87 ECL system

production phase in.

Harris Computer Corp. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Technical Support Engineer 1977 to 1980

Duties included doing the engineering and product introduction

including training, FCS installation, NCC show support and overall

technical support for the H500 system. While with Harris I also

provided all support for a prestigious technical account - Bell Labs.

During this period at Bell Labs I helped in porting UNIX and services to

the Harris demand paged OS VULCAN. UNIX ran as a guest O.S.

L&P Computer Service, lnc. Wharton, N.J.

Principal 1972 to 1977

L&P Computer was a computer sales and service company

specializing in Engineering computers. I had about 1,000 accounts

and launched a new product based on the DG Nova systems.

Clary Data Comp. San Gabriel, Calif.

Engineer, Manager 1970 to 1972

As engineer and manager for Clary Data Comp., I was responsible for

directing service efforts on deployed systems.

Burroughs Corp. 110 wall street, New York, New York

Field Engineer 1969 to 1970

I was a field engineer for Burroughs Corp at their Wall Street office.

USAF Palermo, N.J.

Sgt. Technical 1966 to 1969

Sgt. in charge of maintenance on Time Division Data Link equipment.

Also part of the support team for Burroughs computer systems.

Education:

Gould/Encore/Harris/BurroughslUSAF I compteted courses in

management, quality process, program management, management of

software projects, software development and management.

I presented my most recent paper to the 14th Training and simulation

conference on DIS and High Level Architecture.