Information About Our Company
Innovation
Career Academy is the global leader in self-paced computer technology training solutions for the IT Professional and provides the most complete and up-to-date self-paced certification and job related training library available. By combining the finest instructor-led lectures with the latest Technological trends in content development and delivery, Career Academy has recreated the classroom experience for those students that are not able to fit a class schedule into their busy lifestyle.
Adapt and Develop
CareerAcademy.com, Inc was established in 1999 to help people deal with changes and acquire the knowledge and skills they need to compete in the 21st Century.
State-of-the-Art
Headquartered in Boston Massachusetts, Career Academy has established the state of the art digital production studio facilities staffed by a team of highly motivated, innovative multi-media engineers. It is here that the future of technical education is being formulated and put into production. The results of this unique blend of technical know-how and quality knowledge base are now being successfully implemented throughout the four corners of the globe. From Australia to California to Great Britain, you will find Career Academy's solutions assisting partner training organizations in delivering the latest cutting edge training solutions to their existing and potential client base.
Meet Our Experts
Mark Russell - SQL 2005 Trainer (MCT, MCDBA, MCSD.NET, MCSE Security, CEH, Security+)
Mark Russell has over twenty years total networking and programming experience with a current focus enterprise database development and training using Microsoft SQL Server tools and technologies. Mark is a Certified Technical Trainer. He has taught over 500 Desktop Applications classes and over 500 Technical classes. Mark has completed Microsoft approved Train-the Trainer Program. He was named Instructor of the Year in 1999 with New Horizons Worldwide. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Mark has maintained an overall class (Instructor score) average of 9.62 on a 10 scale.
Sandra Batakis - A+ Trainer, MCT, MCSE, CIW
Sandra is a Senior Microsoft Certified Instructor with over 10 years in
the IT certification training and courseware development field. She has
offered a wide variety of IT training and high level consulting projects
for Fortune 500 companies. She possesses extensive hands-on IT
experience including working with building computer networking
infrastructure, configuring LAN, WAN and Internet security gateways,
Implementing and migrating to Microsoft Exchange 5, 2000,2003 and the
new Exchange 2007. She has delivered numerous Microsoft, CompTIA and
Adobe classroom-based as well as online Boot Camps and Seminars across
the United States.
Bill Hatfield - Visual Studio.NET 2005 Trainer (MCT, MCSD.NET, CPD, CPI)
Bill is an internationally best-selling author of books on Internet, intranet and client/server technologies. Bill has 13 years experience in the software development industry. 11 of those years in consulting as architect/developer on Internet and client/server technologies, including 6 years of experience as a professional corporate instructor. Bill is the Bestselling author of five books on Internet and client/server development. He specialized at consulting engagement, project-management, Architectural design and Object-Oriented Analysis/Design. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for Visual Basic, Certified PowerBuilder Developer (CPD) and Certified Powersoft Instructor (CPI). He is also the editor of Visual Studio .NET Developer, a monthly technical journal from Pinnacle. He's an experienced corporate trainer and works in Indianapolis, IN where he also co-founded the local .NET group, the Indianapolis .NET Developers Association.
Shon Harris - CISSP, MCSE, is a security consultant, a former engineer in the Air Forces Information Warfare Unit, an instructor, an author, and President of Logical Security. She has written two best selling CISSP books, and co-authored Hacker's Challenge and Gray Hat Hacking. Shon has developed a new security book series, being published by McGraw-Hill, which will be sold to corporations, universities, colleges, and professionals throughout the world. This series will set the new standards in security training, education, and industry practices. Shon has taught computer and information security to a wide range of clients including RSA, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Security Agency (NSA), Bank of America, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), BMC, and more. Shon was recently recognized by Information Security Magazine as one of the top 25 women technologists, researchers and executives reshaping information security today.
Robert Brents - Mr. Brents is an extremely accomplished individual being a successful consultant, speaker, and trainer. He is also the author of "Shoot the Project Manager" and the forth coming "Frank Sinatra Didn't Move Pianos". Having created both rapid skills transfer for more effective instructor lead training and the 80/20 performance system that helps companies identify vital skills that produce outrageous success have made him a valuable asset to many companies. He is a member of the National Speakers Association and the American Society for Training and Development.
Richard Hundhausen -Microsoft Regional Director (MCT, CTT+, MCSD, MCSE, MCDBA)
Richard Hundhausen is the founder of the Idaho Delphi and the Boise Visual Developers User Group (now the Boise Software Developer's Group) . He has been a technical editor and has collaborated on numerous .NET developer study guides for Wiley Gearhead Press, Pinnacle Publishing and New Riders. He has been working in IT for about 20 years, the last 10 as an independent consultant.
Debbie Fierst - Has been actively teaching Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, and Microsoft Project for more than 5 years. She has been actively doing web design since it became a real force in the early 90's. Debbie has created over 100 web sites utilizing many different web technologies, including but not limited to ColdFusion, ASP.Net, HTML, XML, and JavaScript. In terms of project management she has effectively provided strategies to the US Air Force, National Security Agency, as well as other corporate clients. She has implemented many of these strategies in her own web development firm.
Tracy Berry - Has been involved graphic and web design for more than 15 years. She has utilized Adobe Photoshop on many different forms including the commercial print industry, however over the past years she has focused devoted its use primarily to web production. She has designed over 200 web sites, and in doing so has discovered many tips & tricks to improve both production and efficiency. In addition to Adobe Photoshop she is also an expert in Macromedia Flash as well as many other Macromedia products. In fact, she has been using many of the Macromedia and Adobe products since their genesis. Over the years she has demonstrated great versatility in these products, producing content of many different forms for many different types of clients.
Steven Borg, Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCSD.NET
Steve has over 14 years of experience creating technical solutions to a variety of civilian and military problems. He has been the primary .NET Solution presenter for Microsoft Academic at MIT, Harvard, University of Houston and several other noted institutes of higher education throughout the United States. Steve has been requested by different courseware development teams at Microsoft to teach the Beta versions of their new courseware. Steve has taught both Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) 2310 Introduction to ASP.NET, and MOC 2609 Introduction to Programming with C# to both students and the instructional designers. His recommendations have resulted in numerous changes to improve both Microsoft official curriculums. Steve has also taught the world-wide T-Prep of both .NET courses.
