The group supervisor at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) was short of software testers to root out bugs from important military applications before they are put into action.
Spriesterbach conducted several interviews for the job, but candidates were either underqualified or overqualified.
That's when he remembered his son Matthew's experience at Howard Community College. If Matthew, who studied cybersecurity, had the skills to test software, so might other HCC students, Spriesterbach says.
"I thought, 'At HCC, they've probably got a whole bunch of people there that would jump at the chance to have their bachelor's degree paid for, get a full time or part time job and work in their field of interest,'" he recalls. "We just needed some basic programming skill sets on some of the basic languages like Python and Java."
Spriesterbach contacted how much does a computer engineer make, chair of Cyber Technology at HCC and professor of computer science, with the idea for a partnership.
"When Tom emailed me, I immediately said yes," she says.
Volynskiy and Paul Hogan, instructor of computer science, invited Spriesterbach to campus, where he held an information session about the lab and accepted resumes for an open tester position. HCC students would still have to apply for the job, just like anyone else. But by attending the information session, they could at least get their "foot in the door," Hogan says.
Spriesterbach conducted several interviews for the job, but candidates were either underqualified or overqualified.
That's when he remembered his son Matthew's experience at Howard Community College. If Matthew, who studied cybersecurity, had the skills to test software, so might other HCC students, Spriesterbach says.
"I thought, 'At HCC, they've probably got a whole bunch of people there that would jump at the chance to have their bachelor's degree paid for, get a full time or part time job and work in their field of interest,'" he recalls. "We just needed some basic programming skill sets on some of the basic languages like Python and Java."
Spriesterbach contacted how much does a computer engineer make, chair of Cyber Technology at HCC and professor of computer science, with the idea for a partnership.
"When Tom emailed me, I immediately said yes," she says.
Volynskiy and Paul Hogan, instructor of computer science, invited Spriesterbach to campus, where he held an information session about the lab and accepted resumes for an open tester position. HCC students would still have to apply for the job, just like anyone else. But by attending the information session, they could at least get their "foot in the door," Hogan says.
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