ABOUT US
Created for a reason
Our organization specifically was created to deliver on our mission: "Giving a chance to those who would not otherwise get one"
Deliver on the "Right" training
To help our students with internship and/or job placement, we base our curriculum decisions on direct input from employers.
Fast track networking for jobs
We provide 100% of our students direct access to our internship/job networks.
OUR LEADERSHIP
OUR TEAM
- Vickie Patterson, CEO & Founder
- David Costales, Executive Director
- Michael White, Director, Operations
- Kris Capezzio, Director, Marketing & Media
- Ravae Mayhair, Director, Community Relations
- Christina Reeder, Director, Special Projects
OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
- Ashley Cawthorn, Director of Marketing & Communications, Biz West Media and previously Executive Producer at TedX Vail
- Niels Kronborg Andersen, CEO & Founder, Kontact Intelligence and VetCV
- Carolyn Pasti, President & CEO, Redline High Performance Computing Solutions
OUR ADVISORY BOARD
- David Patterson, Co-founder, Invictus Knowledge Institute
- Rama Govindaraju, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, Platforms Engineering and Previous IBM HPC Power 775 HPC Software Stack Chief Architect
- Lorraine Herger, CIO of IBM Research, and IBM Research Director of Integrated Solutions
- Eman El-Sheikh, Director, Center for Cybersecurity, University of West Florida
OUR HPC SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR TRAINING ADVISORY BOARD
- Mark Payba, Senior HPC System Administration Engineer, Maui Supercomputing Center
- Paul Szepietowski, HPC Senior System Administration Engineer, IBM
- Bryan Pugh, Senior HPC System Administration Engineer, IBM
- Gary Crouse, Executive Director, Society of HPC Professionals
- Earl Dodd, CTO, Society of HPC Professionals