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At the 2020 NTC Holiday Party, we announced the finalists of the 12th Annual NTC Awards. Judges have narrowed it down to three finalists in each of the 15 categories. Congratulations to all nominees and finalists. The winners in each category will be announced on April 15, 2021 at the 12th Annual NTC Awards!

On Tuesday, December 8, the NTC Foundation (NTCF) held its first annual fundraiser, “Connecting the Dots for our Future Tech Workforce” virtually bringing together more than 100 registrants to support the cause of local tech workforce development. The program’s interactive keynote address was given by Jaime Casap, the digital education visionary who served as Chief Education Evangelist at Google, on the Digitalization Age. Chris Martinez, 3D Technologies Group Founder & CEO, was recognized with the NTCF’s first Visionary Award.

“Today’s fundraiser allows the NTC Foundation to build on our mission—to support tech ed and the workforce—one student or worker at a time,” said Hoff. “I’m so grateful for the support of so many organizations and individuals today who continue to  enable us to be that “connector” in Middle Tennessee’s tech community.”

Contributions to today’s fundraiser from sponsors and individual donors totaled more than $40,000 on its way to the NTCF’s $50,000 goal for the event. Donors can support the NTCF’s work by volunteering their time and talent and/or contributing funds to the mission. Funds raised support the sustainability and expansion of NTCF tech education programs to fulfill students’ needs all year round.

 

Join WiCyS Tennessee Affiliate to bake Holiday Security Incident Response Cookies!

 We will be working through the recipe of a Security Incident, from preheating your SIEM logs to Decorating your security program with Lesson’s Learned.

Grab a cup of coffee and join us for our morning session.

The NTC Tech Camps will be brought right to your door!  All of our camps will be virtual – allowing students to connect wherever their feet are planted!  Our line-up gives K-12 students an engaging, fun way to learn tech and encourage creativity, collaboration, problem-solving & logical thinking (without even realizing that they received a big dose of tech knowledge).

Learn more about the Minecraft Modding with Java Tech Camps for your 3-8 graders the week of December 28th – January 1st.

We’re excited to welcome SlickText as our newest member. To tell us more about the organization, we spoke to Meg Scales, Chief Marketing Officer for SlickText.

Part of NTC’s mission is to promote Middle Tennessee’s technology community and our members efforts.

Have you added your events to the NTC Tech Community Calendar for 2020? Submit your webinars and virtual events to the calendar here and we’ll help to spread the word.

 Share your news and press releases too! It’s as easy as filling out this form, telling us the details of your announcement, and we’ll help to post the news to our website, spread the word on social, and push it out in our newsletter. Need help contacting local news outlets? We can help with that, too!

Have you checked out the NTC Member Portal recently? We have posted the videos in the Resources area from recent Tech Talks and Virtual Events and as we produce more virtual events, you can find videos in the Member Portal.

Is your organization is hiring? Find a new list of job seekers who have recently been displaced. Job seekers can find jobs posted by NTC member companies.

Update your personal profile, your company profile (update your logos or company addresses), post a special member-only offer, or learn about other NTC members. So…

From Project Return:

“Project Return is an organization dedicated to helping people live a full and free life after incarceration. We equip our participants with job readiness skills and help them secure and retain employment.  One of our job readiness classes is computer literacy.

This is a weekly, rudimentary course around the basics of setting up an email account, using job search sites, and avoiding phishing scams. We hold this class for our participants every Wednesday from 3:15-4:30. Individual volunteers would not be expected to teach every week, and we can work out what you’re able to commit to when you reach out.

Let me know if you’re interested!

This is an in person volunteer opportunity, and we are very serious about our COVID safety precautions. This includes a mandatory face mask policy, face shields when necessary, markers for social distancing whenever possible, and plexiglass barriers. If you’re interested in this opportunity, I can send you the full text of our safety plan and answer any questions you may have.”

Contact Joshua Everett if you are interested: jeverett@projectreturninc.org

On October 2^nd, these 10 students completed the IT Infrastructure Support Professional program as part of the Go Tech initiative -funded by the GIVE grant – designed to diversify and grow tech talent. We are proud and they are pumped to get started!

Is your organization ready to launch these great new candidates into a tech career? Sign up now to learn more!

Are you looking for new ways to learn more about and engage with black founded, owned, or led organizations? We’re highlighting this group in the NTC Member Directory, click the link below.

Should your organization be on this list? Update your profile in the NTC Member Portal or contact our membership team for help.

 

Youth Villages, a local nonprofit organization that helps children with emotional, behavior and mental health issues live successfully throughout Middle Tennessee, including youth in the child welfare system. The LifeSet program serves young people aging out of the foster care system by helping them with housing, education, employment and independent living skills they need to become successful.

The youth in the LifeSet program have been hit the hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these youth have lost their housing, their jobs (mostly in the service industry) and new barriers interfering with their education. The sudden shift to online learning has created a new set of technology needs for our young people. Not only devices such as laptops and tablets, but also internet access needs have skyrocketed.

Many of our youth relied on internet access on campus or at public places that are now closed or unsafe due to COVID-19. Most of these youth do not have vehicles so using parking lots to access public Wi-Fi becomes a challenge and safety issue. A few of our youth have had the cops called on them for loitering when they were just trying to access public internet from the library/Starbucks/McDonald’s to complete an online class from their mobile phones.

Our biggest need is laptops…42 laptops to be exact for LifeSet youth accessing higher education in Middle Tennessee. New laptops are preferred, but gently used laptops would be welcomed as well. If you would like to make a donation to help purchase the laptops and Microsoft office for the LifeSet youth, please make an online donation here (put laptops in the comment section). For more information regarding this request, contact Lyndsay Wilkinson at Lyndsay.wilkinson@youthvillages.org

The Greater Nashville Technology Council is excited to announce new partnerships that will provide our members with exclusive member benefits!

HR & ACCOUNTING SERVICES

The NTC has partnered with XMI to provide an exclusive 15% discount on their services.

HEALTH BENEFITS

The NTC has partnered with Technology Councils of North America (TECNA), National General and Nicholas Hill Group to provide an affordable and quality health care plan exclusive to our members.

401(K) PROGRAM

The NTC has partnered with the 401(k) Tech Collective to provide a 401(k) offering to our members. This is a national retirement program built by our colleagues at the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), a fellow tech association, and has been constructed specifically for tech organizations.

WANT TO PARTNER WITH NTC?

For companies interested in forming partnerships to provide exclusive offerings to NTC members, please fill out this form and a representative from the NTC will be in touch. For members that want to offer limited-time discounts on products and/or services, add your member-only offer by logging into the Member Portal now.

NTC Members Organizations Can Post Their Open Job Opportunities by Logging into the NTC Member Portal.

Post your open job positions: log into the NTC Member Portal and click on “Job Postings” (under shortcuts on left-hand side) then “Add Job Posting.”

The NTC Lists Those Job Opportunities Here in the Newsletter and on the NTC Website.

Missing your member log in? Let us know!

View submitted Resumes from Job Seekers: click on”Resources” in the top row of buttons, then scroll down to download the “Talent Seeking Work (updated)” PDF with the latest job seeker submissions. See the image below for where to click (the link may be on the second page of resources):

Missing your member log in? Let us know!

If you are looking for a new opportunity after being recently displaced, the NTC would like to help by sharing your resume and details with 500+ tech community members. Click the button below to submit your details now!

Once we receive your resume, you will be invited to the #jobseeker Slack community and soon added to our “Community Member” account in NTC’s Member Portal so you can access our events calendar, job postings, membership directory, as well as any other member-only material at no cost during this period of transition.

To see available opportunities, click here.

We’re encouraging our members to find their unique ways to give back during this difficult time. So many members have found ways to do just that, and we’d like to help share information with the greater Nashville tech community.

Click on a link below to learn more or add your organization’s offers!

Tornado Relief | COVID-19 Resources | Help Displaced Job Seekers looking for Employment | Provide Services to the Public | Provide Offers for other NTC Members | Listing of Public Offers by NTC Member

NTC Members Organizations Can Post Their Open Job Opportunities by Logging into the NTC Member Portal. The NTC Lists Those Job Opportunities Here in the Newsletter and on the NTC Website.

 

Managing Editor (Security) – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 11/29/2020 – Job Category: 11-2021 Marketing Manager

 

Managing Editor (Software Engineering) – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 11/29/2020 – Job Category: 11-2021 Marketing Manager

 

Functional Data Analyst – Bridgestone Americas
– Posted 12/10/2020 – Job Category: 13-1111 Management Analysts

 

Data Analyst – Data Conversion Designer – Bridgestone Americas
– Posted 12/10/2020 – Job Category: 13-1111 Management Analysts

 

Sr. Security Engineer- Vanderbilt University – Vanderbilt University
– Posted 12/06/2020 – Job Category: 15-1122 Information Security Analysts

 

Junior C# Developer-Upgrades – Insequence Corp
– Posted 11/15/2020 – Job Category: 15-1131 Computer Programmers

 

Salesforce Developer (12 Month TERM)- Vanderbilt University – Vanderbilt University
– Posted 12/06/2020 – Job Category: 15-1132 Software Developers, Applications

 

DevOps / AWS Engineer – FreightWise LLC
– Posted 12/06/2020 – Job Category: 15-1132 Software Developers, Applications

 

Software Developer in Test – The Mechanical Licensing Collective
– Posted 12/04/2020 – Job Category: 15-1133 Software Developers, Systems Software

 

Lead Business Intelligence Developer – Bridgestone Americas
– Posted 12/10/2020 – Job Category: 15-1133 Software Developers, Systems Software

 

Senior Data Engineer – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 11/12/2020 – Job Category: 15-1134 Web Developers

 

Mid-Level Software Engineer – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 11/29/2020 – Job Category: 15-1134 Web Developers

 

Salesforce Administrator (12 Month TERM)- Vanderbilt University – Vanderbilt University
– Posted 12/06/2020 – Job Category: 15-1142 Network and Computer Systems Administrator

 

Senior Data Engineer – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 12/06/2020 – Job Category: 15-1142 Network and Computer Systems Administrator

 

Migration Support Specialist (12 Month TERM)- Vanderbilt University – Vanderbilt University
– Posted 12/06/2020 – Job Category: 15-1151 Computer User Support Specialists

 

Identity and Access Management Engineer (12 Month TERM)- Vanderbilt
University – Vanderbilt University
– Posted 12/06/2020 – Job Category: 15-1199 Computer Occupations, All Other

 

Media Support Specialist- Vanderbilt University – Vanderbilt University
– Posted 12/06/2020 – Job Category: 15-1199 Computer Occupations, All Other

 

Accounting Internship – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 11/24/2020 – Job Category: Internship

 

Program Coordinator Internship – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 11/29/2020 – Job Category: Internship

 

Digital Marketing Strategist – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 11/15/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

Program Coordinator – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 11/20/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

Data Analytics Instructor – Nashville Software School
– Posted 11/20/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

Mid-Market Customer Success Manager – SocialSurvey
– Posted 11/22/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

SMB/ Renewal Specialist – SocialSurvey
– Posted 11/22/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

Ad Operations Manager – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 11/24/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

Enterprise Customer Success Manager – SocialSurvey
– Posted 11/24/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

Client Success Coordinator – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 11/29/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

Digital Editor – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 11/29/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

Marketing Content Writer – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 11/29/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

Staff Accountant – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 11/29/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

Backend Data Engineer – Perception Health
– Posted 12/01/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

Digital Account Executive – TechnologyAdvice
– Posted 12/06/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

IT Infrastructure Instructor (Part-time) – Nashville Software School
– Posted 12/06/2020 – Job Category: Other

 

FOR FURTHER PROMOTION, THE NTC CAN PROVIDE A FEATURED HIGHLIGHT FOR YOUR TECH JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NEWSLETTER AND SOCIAL MEDIA. LEARN MORE ABOUT NTC PROMOTIONS HERE AND SUBMIT YOUR FEATURED JOBS HERE.