Texas Tech Fundamentals Fall 2021 Graduation Book

TECH FUNDAMENTALS

FALL 2021

OUR STORY

NPower is a national nonprofit that offers an alternative fast-track to tech careers for military veterans, military spouses and young adults from underserved communities in New York, Texas, California, Maryland, New Jersey, Missouri, and Michigan. Our six-month program fuels a diverse pipeline of digital professionals hired into entry-level and mid-level jobs by Fortune 500 companies throughout the U.S.

Our curriculum equips students to meet marketplace demand—engaging businesses, volunteers and nonprofits in their long-term success. We invest in the growth of our alumni with continued professional development and credentialing.

NATIONAL

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Matt Horner Chair Executive Vice President Global Enterprise Sales World Wide Technology, Inc.

Gail Fierstein | Vice Chair SVP, Global Head of People CaaStle

Stephen M. Murphy Secretary Sr. Managing Director, Financial Services Technology, Global Lead Accenture

Viola Maxwell-Thompson Treasurer CEO Emeritus Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF)

Luisana Estevez Board Observer

NPOWER NY GRADUATE VP, Data Center Production Operations Engineer Meta

Michael Fugett Board Observer US Army NPOWER TX GRADUATE VP, Production Management Citi

Gerald Charles Jr. VP and Head of Product for Omni Customer Servicing Capital One

Craig Cuffie Chief Procurement Officer HSBC

Dean Del Vecchio EVP, Chief of Operations and CIO The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

Guillermo Diaz, Jr. Founder and CEO Conectado, Inc.

Ami Desai Chief of Staff to Founder, Chairman & CEO Vista Equity Partners

Michael Fey Co-Founder & CEO Island

TEXAS

Keir Gumbs Chief Legal Officer Broadridge Financial Solutions

Kateau James Global Chief Operating Officer Deloitte Technology

Tony Kerrison Chief Technology Officer Bank of America

Debra King Chief Information Officer Bunge

Jennifer Kleinert Chief Operating Officer, Enterprise Infrastructure Operations & Technology Citi

Mark Patterson SVP, Chief of Staff to Chair & CEO Cisco Systems

Frank Pedersen Partner Apply Digital

David Reilly Tech Executive

REGIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Hermen Wegayehu | Chair SVP, Senior Information Security Officer Bank of America

Doug Barnes Vice President of Operations NETSCOUT

Jacqueline Bragg

NPOWER ALUMNI

REPRESENTATIVE Information Security Analyst Citi

Dana Branch Senior Vice President, AI Bank of America

Robert Elliot Senior Client Partner Nexient

Steven Guiliani Senior Engineering Analyst Citi

Diane Schwarz VP, Chief Information Officer Johnson Controls

Dwight D. Shepherd REAR ADMIRAL (RETIRED) Director, Federal Government Client Relations IBM

Anupam Singhal Senior Vice President and Business Head Tata Consultancy Services

Josh Sutton Chief Executive Officer Agorai

Peter Trizzino President Dell Technologies Select Sangy Vatsa Founder Digital Insights, LLC

Bertina Ceccarelli Chief Executive Officer NPower

Rashimi Jain CIO Careington International

Terry Jenkins NPOWER ALUMNI

REPRESENTATIVE IT Business Unit Sr Analyst Citi

Christopher Karp Director of Customer Service Chewy

Michael Lawson Senior Manager, Boeing Global Engagement Boeing

Bobbie Long SVP Digital Automation & Infrastructure Citi

Daniel Maslowski Global Head, Digital Automation & Infrastructure Citigroup

Ashley Neumeier Account Executive Optomi

Kris Norris Director of Strategic Partnership Kelly Services

Raymond Pitts Senior Vice President Data Center Migration Portfolio Manager Citigroup

Diane Schwarz

NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEMBER Chief Information Officer

Johnson Controls

Adrian Silva Senior Managing Director of Workforce Development and Apprenticeships Dallas College

Brashanda Walker NPOWER ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVE Jr. Network Engineer Service Experts

Chris Young U.S. Global Fi Strategic Resourcing Lead WWT

Tresia Eaves SVP, Program Manager Citi

TECH FUNDAMENTALS FALL 2021 STATISTICS

The curriculum for this program includes a NetAcad learning module courtesy of the Cisco Networking Academy.

90% RETENTION

60%

FEMALE ENROLLED

60%

VETERANS ENROLLED

NPOWER TEXAS

ADEMOLA ADEJIMI

MICHAEL AMOAKO

THOMAS BOWAH CHIBUZOR EKWURIBE

GABRIEL ADJETEY

KAORI AOKI

JOSHUA BROWNLEE

OLATUNDE ASIMIYU ALFRED DIXON

WILL GALEY

CHRISTIAN GARZA

ROBERT GUNTER

AARADHANA KARKI

DAVID KAZADI

ANTHONY MANSWELL

KEVIN HAZZARD

MYER HUNT CRISS HELMS

TERRY HOLLAND

MOSES NGAUJAH RICKY NGUYEN ZOOEY NGUYEN

JOHN JONES

JAMI JORDAN

ADEWUNMI OBASA PATRICK O'NEAL DEBORAH PARKER

CONGRATULATIONS!

TECH FUNDAMENTALS FALL 2021

ADEMOLA ADEJIMI

GABRIEL ADJETEY

AARADHANA KARKI

DAVID KAZADI

BRANDON RIVERA ROBERT SMITH JR.

SEBASTIEN TCHUIDJANG TCHOUAHA

PRAVIN SHRESTHA

DARIN THOMAS

WINFRED TSIGBE

MICHAEL AMOAKO

KAORI AOKI

OLATUNDE ASIMIYU

THOMAS BOWAH

JOSHUA BROWNLEE

ALFRED DIXON

CHIBUZOR EKWURIBE

WILL GALEY

CHRISTIAN GARZA

ROBERT GUNTER

KEVIN HAZZARD

CRISS HELMS

TERRY HOLLAND

MYER HUNT

JOHN JONES

JAMI JORDAN

ZACHARY WHITE

JULIE ZOUNGRANA

ANTHONY MANSWELL

MOSES NGAUJAH

RICKY NGUYEN

ZOOEY NGUYEN

ADEWUNMI OBASA

PATRICK O'NEAL

DEBORAH PARKER

BRANDON RIVERA

PRAVIN SHRESTHA

ROBERT SMITH JR.

SEBASTIEN TCHUIDJANG TCHOUAHA

DARIN THOMAS

WINFRED TSIGBE

ZACHARY WHITE

JULIE ZOUNGRANA

LAUNCHING TECH CAREERS. TRANSFORMING LIVES.

NPower’s model is a solution to building a diverse tech pipeline. Our graduates launch tech jobs with an average starting salary of $41,000–$60,000 and are positioned to advance their career path, enabling them to earn more than their peers in lower-wage jobs. Higher earning potential is the key to breaking generational cycles of poverty, positioning our students and their families to achieve long-term economic success.

WE ARE THE FUTURE OF WORK

Through partner and tech industry collaboration, our free training model is a workforce development solution for the future. In today’s economy, over 50% of all jobs require some degree of technology and digital skill. We prepare untapped, diverse talent to fill the number of technology-oriented jobs that will increase in the U.S. to 13 million by 2025, according to a recent Microsoft Data Science report that estimates that digital job capacity. Our graduates of over 4,000 veterans and young adults are hired at over 2000 companies and nonprofits as interns and full-time employees.

NPower is on a mission to create pathways to economic prosperity by launching digital careers for young adults and military veterans from underserved communities.

Part of this goal is our ‘40 by 22’ initiative, which aims to advance more young women of color in tech careers. This initiative is supported by the Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress initiative.

› Of students who enroll graduate

› Of alumni get jobs or continue their education

THANK YOU...

TO OUR FUNDERS

The Addy Foundation

BAE Systems

Bank of America

Boeing

Carl B. and Florence E. King

Foundation

Comerica

Communities Foundation of Texas

Globant

Google

Lyda Hill Fund of the Communities Foundation of Texas

Holloway Family Foundation

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Kirkland and Ellis LLP

Lockheed Martin

Motorola Solutions Foundation

WP & Bulah Luse Foundation

May and Stanley Smith

Charitable Trust

OneTen Coalition Inc

SkillUp

Texas Talent Connection

Texas Veterans Commission

Texas Workforce Commission

United Way of Metropolitan Dallas

USAA

TO OUR EMPLOYMENT PARTNERS

KPMG

Federal Reserve Bank

HCL

MTX Colabl

Citi

AND TO OUR VOLUNTEERS

Bank of America

Robert Ekuribe

BravoTech

Kurt Scholl

Citi Group

Bobbie Long

John Eydenberg

Michael Fugett

NPOWER ALUMNI

Rebecca Moss

EY

Luke Lively

NPOWER ALUMNI

Globant

Javier Bonnemaison

Robert Elliot

Samuel Ng

James Patterson

David Roland

GM Financial

Srini Raghavan

Kelly Services

Jessica Mendenhall

Kris Norris

Life Blue

Russel Dubree

LinkedIn

Romero Nelson

Mohawk Kind

Nellson Burns

MTX

Angela Georgiades

SIM-DFW

Doug Zahniser

SPGlobal

Reed Defever

Stefanini

Josh Lewis

Texas Instruments

TaKendra Elbert

USAA

John Hulett

Gayathri Kaligotla

Christal Lawrence

Virtual Tech Gurus

Ric Darquea

Votum Technologies

Mark Reynolds

Wells Fargo

Daney Forbes

NPOWER ALUMNI

WWT

Guy McDonald

Septimus Oglivie

PATHWAY BUILDERS

Pathway Builders are individual donors invested in the future of our country and changing lives for military veterans and young adults from underserved communities. To learn more about Pathway Builders or to join this group of changemakers, please visit npower.org/support or email hello@npower.org.

Ronald & Cynthia Gula

Charitable Fund

Tim Brien

Dean Del Vecchio

Mike Elmore

Gail Fierstein

Matt Horner

Stephen Murphy

Christopher Perry

Daniel Petrozzo

David Reilly

Julie Sweet

Peter Trizzino

SUPPORTERS

Mahir B AbdalRazzaaqEl

James Alcombright

Robert Anselmo

Linda Apsley

Jack Azagury

Peter Benzie

The Ramesh and Kalpana

Bhatia Family Foundation

Michael Blumstein

Brian Bohan

Chad Bope

James Carey

Steve Cass

Joseph Castro

Vittorio Cretella

Paul Daugherty

Anthony DeLisio

Richard DePalma

Bruce Derr

Anthony DiSanto

Darcy Down

FRIENDS

Noreen Fierro

Michael Fugett

Pedro Garcia

Betsy George

Doug Greene

Scott Harris

Jason Heckler

Jonathan Hicks

Matt Holton

Stuart Henderson

Florian Jaze

Patricia Karzai

Leif King

Aaron Lewis

Viola Maxwell-Thompson

Catherine McDonald

Robert Millstone

Paul Miranda

Brian Mize

Hunter Muller

Joe Murphy

Christine Parsons

Frank Pedersen

Greg Raimann

Michael D Robinson

Michael Rupinski

Diana Scott

Dwight Shepherd

James Smith

Joel Spieth

Harold & Diane Steuber

Nicole Tate

Susanne Tedrick

Rex Thexton

Cliff Thomas

Rah Thomas

Joel Unruch

Alphonse Valbrune

Robert Vaughn

Chris Wegmann

Casey Wells

Crystal White

Pete Agresta

Guillermo Diaz, Jr.

Diane Gherson

Candace Givens

Mark Heil

Debra King

Jennifer Kleinert

James Linnett

Tristan Morel L’Horset

Harry Moseley

Larry Quinlan

Diane Schwarz

Ellyn Shook

Einat Burshtine

Benjamin Ciaglo

Allison Crady

Amy Heydman

NPOWER SUPPORTERS

UNDERWRITERS | $750K+

SPONSORS | $250K+

PARTNERS | $100K+

AHEAD

Andreessen Horowitz

Atlas Data Systems

Beth & Ravenel Curry Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Centene Charitable Foundation

Check Point Software Technologies

Corteva Agriscience

SUPPORTERS | $50K+

The Achelis & Bodman Foundation

ADP Foundation

Ascension Information Services

Auth0

Baltimore Nonprofit Relief Fund

Blue Data

Carl B. & Florence E. King Foundation

Centene Corporation

The Centene Charitable Foundation

Craig Newmark Philanthropies

Dennis M. Jones Family Foundation

Emerson

Ernst & Young

Fiserv

Global Leadership Forum

Hewlett Packard Company

Ira W. DeCamp Foundation

KPMG

Llewellyn Family Foundation

Maryland Apprenticeship

Innovation Fund

Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development

MTX Group Inc

NetApp

NETSCOUT

The New York Community Trust

Palo Alto Networks

Patrick J McGovern Foundation

The Pinkerton Foundation

Rocket Community Fund

St. Louis Community Foundation

Tata Consultancy Services

Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan

Communities Foundation of Texas

Consumers Energy

Elasticsearch

Flextronics International USA, Inc.

Fortinet

France-Merrick Foundation

Henry & Ruth Blaustein

Rosenberg Foundation

IBM

Infinidat

JobFirstNYC

Kaiser Permanente

Kirkland & Ellis

Light a Single Candle Foundation

LinkedIn Corporation

Mainline Information Systems

Mass Mutual Insurance Company

Medidata Solutions

Morgan Stanley

TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS FRIENDS

Motorola Solutions

New York City Council

Northrop Grumman Corporation

OneTen

The Rockefeller Foundation

Royal Bank of Canada

SAP

The Saigh Foundation

Shippy Foundation

State Street Bank

Texas Workforce Commission

Twilio Inc

United Way of Greater St. Louis

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Veterans’ Educational Assistance Program

West Baltimore Renaissance Foundation, Inc.

Workday Foundation

St. Louis Regional Business Council

Tanium Inc.

Texas Mutual Insurance Company

Vmware

Vodafone

The William R. Orthwein, Jr. Foundation, Inc.

Wilson Sheehan Foundation

Veritas Zoom

Thanks to our government partners, the U.S. Department of Labor, Maryland, New Jersey and New York Department of Labor.