Since Blacksburg is where all my success started, it is only fitting that I continue to reinforce that success in the Blacksburg area by working to help improve the chances for other new ventures that spring up each year out of the Blacksburg, VA and Virginia Tech area. Bob Summers has long been another SWVA success story and my thanks to him for founding 460 Angels and inviting me to join the group. The Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center has always been a great place to create new innovations… having started or saved nearly a dozen companies now, there is a lot to share. I know I am looking forward to the next generation of technology leaders and what they are passionate about.
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Miller Bets on Internships for Future Job Growth
One of the areas that we have always focused on at G3 is the role of the internship in the resouce identification and creation process. Our first internship class was 1999-2000 in our Blacksburg, VA Headquarters at Virginia Tech. One of the original two interns from that class at Virginia Tech is still with us today and even is Director of Systems Integration for G3. In 2009, G3 launched a high school internship program in support of the Center for Information Technology (CIT) at Deep Run High School in the Henrico County Public School (HCPS) system out of the Richmond, VA office of G3. Most of these 200 extremely bright and talented kids were born since1993 when G3 was founded. The end result is that G3 has great talent for 1-2 years before they go off to college and for some that choose to go to Virginia Tech, they can explore the option of 4-5 years at G3 as a college intern. That gives G3 5-7 years to help develop the talents of these already very talented kids and provide then an extra 2-3 years after graduation to get oriented. All in all, G3 might be able to say that in 2020 that we have a 25 year old employee that has 10 years of professinal and technical experience with G3 and the value of that person in the workforce, to G3 and to the individual is measured in more than just dollars and cents. This my friends is the Next-Generation of Economic Recovery on Jobs. We need to GROW those jobs from the inside out and that needs to start today.
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