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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; 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

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

The Training Development Model

Skills Development Fund Alamo Colleges AFCEA Membership

Expertise Training Funding

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Thank You!