Lonnie Emard, Apprenticeship Director WHEN YOU HAVE 10,000 tech jobs to fill and only 700 tech grads in a year—statewide—you have to get creative, and that’s where registered apprenticeships come in. The entire concept of apprenticeships flies in the face of all the tired old patterns of traditional hiring. In the past, when companies wanted […]
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SCOTT SPRADLEY, EVP and Chief Technology Officer, Tyson Foods ARKANSAN SCOTT SPRADLEY spent many years in Silicon Valley, where he distinguished himself in leadership positions at Chevron, Intel, and Hewlett Packard, becoming known in the tech industry as a transformer. Two years ago he returned to his home state to lead the “modernization” of Tyson
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Bill Yoder, Executive Director, presented at the AR NSF EPSCoR Meeting in May. WE HAVE BEEN fortunate over the last few months to be able to meet and work with a number of Computer Science and Engineering leaders, both at our state’s colleges and universities as well as in corporate IT. The common denominators are:
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ARKANSAS GRAD MAKES GOOD Unfortunately, he had to leave the state to do it Debanjan Mahata, Ph.D, Research Scientist, Bloomberg FOUR YEARS AGO, I was just receiving my doctorate from UA Little Rock’s Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology (EIT), and like most young tech grads, I had plans. This is the story of
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