Our goal is to have two Advisory Committee meetings each year, one in the fall and one in the spring. Each meeting will be conducted online using this blog. I will post 2-3 questions, then notify you by email so you can respond by using the comment link found below each post.
Please begin by leaving a comment that includes the following information:
- Name
- Job title
- Company name or Employer
- Education/Training
- Certifications acquired
- Years of experience in Information Technology
I really appreciate your time and support!
Cheyenne Koch
Information Technology instructor
Marshall County Technical Center
341 High School Road
Benton, KY 42025
270-527-8648
8 comments:
Randy Luecke
Software Engineer / Student
RCLConcepts / University of Kentucky
Pursuing a bachelors of science in computer science
5 years of software engineering experience.
Additional information can be found here: http://randyluecke.com/content/resume.pdf
John Vos
Professor Information Technology
West Kentucky Community & Technical College
Paducah, KY
john.vos@kctcs.edu
Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CCAI
VMware VCP410
Microsoft MCSE, MCT
Cheyenne, Thanks again for allowing me to participate on the Advisory Team.
I think MC has been doing an excellent job of preparing students for post secondary education. Some of the concerns at the post secondary level are the increasing number of students that are unable to enter directly into college level algebra without needing additional developmental mathematics courses.
I believe the cost of taking certification exams is a big deterant to many young students. If there are ways from business and industry representatives to provide some positive earnings abilities and early entry into a workforce position due to success in obtaining a certification, then more students might be interested in pursuit of the credential.
Dual credit programs offered at the post secondary level are a definite positive effort at students entering college level courses. I believe it is still key to students that education beyond the secondary level is crucial to professional careers in Information technololgy.
Russ Buchanan
Chief Information Officer Marshall County Schools
2nd year in current position
14 years teaching experience in Math
10 years in administration.
Looking forward to being part of the committee.
Thus far in working with students from MC in the COOP program the IT classes are producing very productive students.Thanks for the job you do.
Wesley Spencer
Lecturer - Telecommunications Systems Management
Murray State University
I have 7 years of experience in network security, specializing in open source technologies such as Snort, Squid, IPTables, MetaSploit, and Nessus.
I would like to strongly echo John's comments, and let you know I am very excited to help the MC Technology program in any way I can. On behalf of Murray State and the Telecommunications Systems Management program, we are very excited to be able to continue support of this program, both through this committee and other avenues as well. We have been continually impressed at what your technology program has done so far for your students at MC.
Willie Kerns
Managing Member, SmartPath Technologies, LLC
Calvert City, Ky
Wkerns@smartpathtech.com
A+, Network+, CCNA, MCSE, various hardware certifications from Dell, IBM, and HP
We provide outsourced managed services IT support to businesses in Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee.
We pay for certification exams for our employees (including interns, etc). We see issues with people who can do the tests and pass them but have very little actual knowledge. To me, it's more important that someone can do the work and understand the technology than if they can take a test. I have had several unsuccessful employees who were certified to the n'th degree, but couldn't migrate Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 to save their lives. One of the big things that will help out I'm any industry but especially IT is research skills - someone else has probably dealt with the issue and information is available about it - but they need to know how to research and find relevant information while wading through all of the junk.
Tyler Temple
Computer Network Technician
Marshall County School District
tyler.temple@marshall.kyschools.us
5 years experience in Workstation & Network Support/Repair,
3 years consulting in Business Technology Solutions
Telecommunications Systems Management Student @ Murray State University
Glad to be a part of this advisory committee. This program shaped my career path in the past - I'll offer all I can to ensure the MC IT Program continues to blossom.
Jill Burkeen
VP,Information Security Officer
Community Financial Services Bank (CFSB)
CISSP, Security+, MCSE, Network+
I have been at CFSB for 15 years where I started the Information Technology department. I recently changed positions to start the new Information Security Department that will work closely with our newly created "Fraud Center".
Technology is a challenging and rewarding career field. It is a career of constant change.
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