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Creating World Class Training Opportunities Overview The Texas Skills Development Fund Success Stories Facilities and Infrastructure Training Options Process and Implementation Texas Legislature created in 1995;


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Creating World Class Training Opportunities

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  • Overview
  • The Texas Skills Development Fund
  • Success Stories
  • Facilities and Infrastructure
  • Training Options
  • Process and Implementation
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  • Texas Legislature created in 1995; Implemented in 1996
  • State General Revenue appropriation
  • Funds customized training for a business, consortium of

businesses, or trade union

  • Goal is to increase the skills levels and wages of the Texas

Workforce

  • Fiscal Year 2010-11 biennium, $90 million appropriated to

Skills Development Fund

* Information Courtesy of Skills

Development Fund

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  • Public community or technical colleges, the Texas Engineering

Extension Service (TEEX), or a 501(c)(3) Community-based

  • rganizations (CBOs) in partnership with a college
  • Colleges partner with a business, a consortium of businesses or trade

union to develop customized training; customization can include instructional, scheduling, and site-specific adaptations specific to employer needs

  • College completes and submits grant application to TWC for award

consideration

  • College coordinates delivery of training and is expected to directly

provide most of the instruction * Information Courtesy of Skills

Development Fund

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In addition to public community or technical colleges, partners include:

  • Businesses
  • Private for profit entities with one or more employees, or private

non-profit hospitals

  • Work with college to develop training program
  • Ensure workers available to attend training and provide required

data to college for training

  • Pay prevailing wage for the occupation in the local area

* Information Courtesy of Skills

Development Fund

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  • Local Workforce Boards: convenes business partners; advises business of

Skills Development Fund, provides comment on Skills projects.

  • Employment Service (ES) and Business Services Unit (BSU) assist Skills
  • utreach by:
  • Introducing local employer partners to Skills
  • Connecting employers to eligible training partners

for potential projects

  • Assisting with posting job openings for new trainees on

WorkInTexas.com

  • Economic Development Entity: Inform new and expanding businesses of

Skills opportunities; maintain relationships with colleges and workforce boards.

* Information Courtesy of Skills

Development Fund

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  • Cost per trainee target of $1,420
  • Single-business project can be up $500,000
  • Equipment costs for training purposes may be allowed for

multiple business projects.

  • 12-month training period

* Information Courtesy of Skills

Development Fund

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http://skills.texasworkforce.org

  • Complete application package with submission instructions
  • Prevailing wage tutorial
  • Business partner information
  • Board comment form
  • FAQs

* Information Courtesy of Skills

Development Fund

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The Training Development Model

Skills Development Fund Alamo Colleges AFCEA Membership

Expertise Training Funding

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The Rackspace Workforce Skills Development Grant

  • Awarded in 2008, $4.7 million grant to train new Rackspace employees
  • Project funded by Texas Workforce Commission Skills Development Grant
  • Skills in advanced technology such as networking, information security,

and operating systems

  • Over $700,000 budgeted for new equipment including Cisco Lab, and

mini “cloud” to conduct virtualization training

  • Northeast Lakeview College is the lead college, but training has been

conducted by 4 out of 5 colleges in Alamo College system

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Accomplishments to Date:

  • 6 professional vendor-certified instructors with skills in Information Security,

Operating Systems, Networking, Project Management and Open Source

  • Northeast Lakeview College official Microsoft Learning Provider, official EC

Council Learning Partner

  • Northeast Lakeview College only academic institution in the world to achieve

Cisco Learning Partner status.

  • SDF in 2010-2011 with San Antonio premier defense industry contractor

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems.

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7 Fully Equipped Classrooms

  • Over 100 computer workstations
  • Cisco Certified Network Training Lab
  • Standalone security lab for network security, attack/defend training
  • The only “cloud” computing training environment in San Antonio
  • Hands on training in networking and computer building, configuring and

troubleshooting

State of the Art Infrastructure

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Certification Training Options

  • Cisco Certified Learning Partner
  • Microsoft Certified IT Academy
  • Project Management
  • Linux Red Hat RHCE

CCNA CCNP Certification Prep CSSOC Intro to Project

Management

PMI PMP Certification Test

Prep

ITIL Foundations Microsoft Project

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DoD 8570 Training Options

  • EC Council Certified Training Partner (Certified

Ethical Hacker)

  • CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+
  • CCNA Security (and other exclusive Cisco

Training options)

  • Related training platforms
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Cyber Security Training Options

  • Wireshark TCP/IP Traffic Analysis
  • CISSP Test Prep
  • Cyber Security Awareness
  • IPv6 Fundamentals
  • IPv6 Troubleshooting in a Windows Environment
  • IPv6 Troubleshooting in a Linux Environment
  • Customized Training – 47 Courses Built to Date
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Development

  • Establish Consortium Working Group (1 month)
  • Define Training Requirements
  • Determine trainee numbers
  • Assemble required documentation
  • Create proposed training schedule
  • Write Grant Proposal (1 month)
  • SDF Review and Editing (2 weeks)
  • Formal Submission
  • Processing (1 month)
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Implementation

  • Create Board of Advisors
  • Consists of HR Representatives, Subject Matter Experts and

Alamo Colleges Instructors

  • Creates MOU document for consortium and Alamo Colleges

defining roles and responsibilities

  • Works with Alamo Colleges Grant Liaison to implement project
  • Verify training schedule
  • Procure materials
  • Commence training
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TWC Skills Development Fund Business Outreach and Project Development Team: 877 463 1777 skills@twc.state.tx.us http://skills.texasworkforce.org

BILL JEFFERS

512 475 0582

bill.jeffers@twc.state.tx.us

Contact Us

TOD BRUNING

Rackspace Grant Liaison Alamo Colleges 7990 Pat Booker Rd. San Antonio, Texas 78233 Tel: (210) 485-0708 | Fax: (210) 485-0622 Tbruning1@alamo.edu

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Thank You!