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Information Technology Institute Ready to Take
Students at New Portland School
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T he P ortland O bserveh
Portland is about to get a new option
in education as the ITI Information
Technology Institute gears up to
take its first Portland class May 1.
ITI, a highly successful Canadian
company since 1984, entered the
United States last year, establishing
a U.S. headquarters and its first
A m e ric a n sc h o o l in D en v er.
Portland is the com pany’s second
U.S. campus. A third school will
open near Seattle in Bellevue,
Washington in August.
ITI has renovated and completely
updated the 12'h floor o f the Oregon
Dental Service (ODS) Tower in
downtown Portland into a state-of-
the-art facility which mimics almost
exactly a corporate information
te c h n o lo g y e n v iro n m e n t. T he
sch o o l fe a tu re s th e la te st in
technically-advanced class and team
teaching rooms.
Program aims to fill void of high
tech professionals
ITI has come to Portland to help
Oregon and southwest Washington
employers bridge the skills gap and
produce the kind ofhighly qualified,
tech n ical and b u sin e ss savvy
professionals they are in need of.
Offering an unm atched, proven
successful approach to filling the
critical void ofqualified information
technology (IT) professionals, ITI
is oneofN orth A m erica’s premiere
postgraduate e-business schools.
The school offers a nine-month,
fu ll-tim e p rogram in A pplied
Information Technology (AIT) to
c o lle g e g ra d u a te s from any
discipline. The curriculum is built
on a w o rld-class collab o rativ e
le a rn in g m e th o d o lo g y w h e re
students learn the technical and
professional skills required to excel
as e-business pros and work on team
p ro je c ts th a t sim u la te a ctu al
business situations.
Students become lifelong learners
Students become “expert, lifelong
learners," enabling them to pick up
new technologies in the workplace
once they graduate from ITI and
launch into their new careers.
T he p ro g ra m ’s m a rk e t-d riv e n
curriculum incorporates all aspects
of
b u sin e ss
a p p lic a tio n
development, specifically in the area
o f e-commerce. Students work on
real-world e-business projects, such
as building fully functioning web
sites and back end databases, and
working on enterprise development
and systems analysis and design.
In add itio n to the very latest
technical tools, ITI goes beyond
that to give students the team
building, professional development,
p ro je c t
m an ag em en t,
co m m u n ic a tio n and problem
solving skills that organizations
demand today.
The ITI school is set up to simulate
alm ost exactly a professional,
corporate information technology
working environment, so a student
can easily transition from ITI to the
workplace once they graduate. ITI
graduates are highly sought after by
corporations across North America
and the world, with starting salaries
ranging from the mid-40s to the 60s
and even higher, depending upon a
s tu d e n t’s sk ills and c a re e r
aspirations.
Numerous job types available to
graduates
Among the many types o f jobs
available for ITI graduates are
a p p lic a tio n s d e v e lo p e r and
programmer, technical trainer, web
developer, program m er analyst,
sy ste m s a n a ly st, e -b u sin e ss
s p e c ia lis t, te c h n ic a l su p p o rt
sp e c ia list, sales en g in e e r, IT
consultant, application architect,
business analyst, project leader,
softw are tester, QA analyst, e-
c o m m erce c o n su lta n t, GUI
developer and more.
ITI also works with industry leaders
and corporations such as IBM from
around the world to develop a
curriculum that m eets to d ay ’s
market needs. The curriculum is
updated every 90 days and as a
result many students have new IT
careers waiti ng for them before they
even com plete the nine-m onth
program.
Students get a laptop computer with
full Internet access and e-mail
accounts as part o f their tuition.
Classes begin every three months,
in May, August, November and
F ebruary. W hen fully up and
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running, the Portland school will be
able to accommodate up to 320
students at a time and graduate 400
e-business professionals a year.
For more information, contact ITI
at 503/274-0988 or at www.it.com.
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