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New City Tech/Goldman Sachs Technology Bridge Program Launched
City Tech Placement Director Adrian Griffith, Goldman Sachs’ Vivek Talwar and Kimberley Reimers, and Professor Josephine Braneky
New York City College of Technology Placement Director Adrian Griffith, Goldman Sachs’ administrators Vivek Talwar and Kimberley Reimers, and Computer Systems Technology (CST) Professor Josephine Braneky recently joined forces to launch the College’s Goldman Sachs Technology Bridge Program, which features six-week paid, credit-bearing internships that provide technical training and invaluable work experience to City Tech students interested in pursuing four-year technology degrees.
The program is designed to provide participating students with transferable skills in their fields of study, develop résumé-building on-the-job experience, prepare them for future career opportunities in information technology and introduce them to the Goldman Sachs corporate culture. The program is jointly administered by the global investment banking giant’s Human Capital Management Department and Information Technology (IT) Division, the City Tech Placement Office, and the College’s Department of Computer Systems Technology. Students accepted into the program are placed either into an application developer or infrastructure engineering and systems role at the professional level and work on technical solutions for complex business needs.
A capacity audience of students filled the Atrium Amphitheater to apply for Technology Bridge Program internships
The program evolved as a result of an initial meeting three years ago between City Tech and Goldman Sachs’ IT Division that culminated in a meeting this summer between Goldman personnel and College faculty and staff. Representing Goldman were administrators Nigel Faulkner and Marissa Hicks-Hussein, while City Tech Provost Bonne August, School of Technology & Design Dean Robin Bargar, CST Chair Candido Cabo, CST Professor Rafael Guidone, Griffith and Braneky, who coordinates the program, represented the College.
Following a well-attended presentation on campus in September, eight students were selected for interviews later this fall at Goldman’s Lower Manhattan offices. Four students – Lerone Bleasdille, Chervay Brathwaite, Jose Martinez and Pedro Peralta were accepted into the program, which will begin in January 2009. Bleasdille, Martinez and Peralta are majoring in Computer System Technology and Brathwaite is a Microcomputer Business Systems major.
“We are very excited about this new opportunity for City Tech students to acquire real-world training and experience through one of the top firms in its field,” says Griffith, “and we are working to expand these opportunities with Goldman and other major firms in the future.”
The program follows on the heels of the highly successful Lehman Brothers IT Internship Program that has resulted in dozens of internship placements for City Tech students each semester. The College is working to continue this relationship with Barclays Capital, Lehman Investment Banking Division’s new owner.
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