Greg Flanders is employed by Flowers Foods, Inc. as a Help Desk Technical Support Analyst II. He earned his first degree from Southwest Georgia Technical College in 1999.

 

I received my Associates of Applied Technology Degree, and then I re-enrolled and earned a Microcomputer Specialist Diploma and also CISCO Certificate,” Flanders said. He just completed the Computer information Systems program and has graduated with an associates degree as a network specialist.

I love computers and find them fascinating, so I knew that is the career path I needed to take. I chose Southwest Georgia Technical College because a friend recommended it and my mother had gone to school here.

 

It was a great experience, the faculty and staff here are excellent and always very helpful. They really care about you and your success and I recommend technical education 100% to anyone who wants to get the training and hands on experience they need to hit the ground running in the career of their choice. I know it worked great for me!

Flanders graduated from Thomasville High School in 1997 and immediately enrolled at Southwest Georgia Technical College. I had taken basic keyboarding concepts in the 11th and 12th grades and was so excited to use a computer for the first time.

An enthusiastic student, Flanders no sooner completed one program than he had enrolled in another. I love learning more and more about computers. I have enrolled at Valdosta State University and am finishing up my Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems there.

I was very nervous and afraid when I first enrolled at Southwest Georgia Technical College, he said. I knew it was going to be more difficult than high school and that I would soon be facing the real world. At the same time I was very excited to learn more about computers and all the technical components of the IT industry.

 

I soon became very confident and determined that I was going to make a career out of IT and make myself as marketable and knowledgeable as possible. SWGTC prepared me to be a great employee.

Flanders now has a very successful career in the IT field and credits SWGTC with giving him the tools he needed to offer his employer the expertise and skills they demanded.

 

The instructors at SWGTC provided me with lots of individual attention and helped me master the skills necessary to be competitive in todays job market. SWGTC is the reason I am where I am today. It is a phenomenal place to gain the experience and skills that you can apply in your career the day you graduate.

I am employed by a Fortune 100 company and look forward to going to work every day. What more can you ask for?  SWGTC helped me get where I am today and I am better of as a person because I enrolled there.