SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT POWER GRIDS After cold weather messed with Texas, how worried should we be? Philip Dale Huff, Ph.D.,Assistant Professor, Emerging Analytics CenterUA Little Rock BEFORE I WAS asked to come develop a cybersecurity degree program at UA Little Rock, I worked in the power industry for 15 years, starting as a programmer right […]
MEET KELSEY HEDRICK Age: 43 Hometown: Tucson, AZ Apprenticeship: ACDS MY BACK STORY I was born in Tucson, but my father and both grandfathers were miners at the San Manuel copper mine about 30 miles from Tucson, so my first home was a little house in the San Manuel copper mining community. It was just
I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE to read Jim Morgan’s piece announcing the new publication ITARKANSAS, a magazine for younger Arkansans who might be interested in an IT career. The magazine is aimed at high school students, their guidance counselors, and their parents. It will also be distributed to college campuses throughout the state. ACDS has been, and
WELCOME TO ITARKANSASIntroducing a tech careers magazine for the Natural State James Morgan,Senior Consulting Editor, ACDS IT WAS WAY back in December 2019 that we first started talking about a magazine about tech careers in Arkansas. Some people from Arkansas Times were on the list to receive the ACDS newsletter, and that sparked the idea
Stephen Addison, Ph.D.Professor of Physics Dean, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics University of Central Arkansas ALMOST A YEAR ago, Steve Addison wrote the very first COVID-related Guest Column that this newsletter published, about the UCA faculty having to switch to total remote learning over a single weekend. Now that the vaccine is slowly making
Lonnie Emard, Apprenticeship Director ACDS IS IN the business of developing tech talent and matching it to the job requirements of Arkansas employers. We work with people who’ve finished four years of college, two years of college, and no years of college. But no matter who we’re presenting to employers, the one thing those employers
MEET JUSTICE BAKER Age: 24 Hometown: Cabot, AR Apprenticeship: Metova MY BACK STORY I grew up with three siblings, two sisters and a brother. We lived in Cabot my whole childhood, but we moved around a lot. We grew up a little poor. Basically, school and computers were the only things that kept my attention
‚ÄúWHAT DO I DO WITH ALL THIS DATA?‚ÄĚ If that‚Äôs your question, the first thing to do is call ACDS G.B. Cazes EVERY BUSINESS HAS data, but relatively few companies are truly harnessing its power. How about you and your business? As ACDS works with employers throughout our state, we hear lots of questions about
HAPPY NEW YEAR and welcome to 2021! In these all-too-divisive times, I wanted to start off the new year with a subject that‚Äôs anything but divisive‚ÄĒgreat IT career opportunities right here in Arkansas. While lots of companies still prefer computer science and data science degrees with three to five years of work experience, there are
Charles Morgan,CEO, First Orion, and Chairman of ACDS OVER THE PAST two years, Charles Morgan has appeared in the ACDS newsletter several times, but never as the interviewee of the month. We thought it was time to rectify that, especially considering the moment we’re living through. Morgan has long had his finger on the pulse