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VisionPerry, in collaboration with cTechnology, Inc. of Nashville, South Central TN Workforce Alliance, the Town of Linden, the City of Lobelville, and Perry County Government, will be implementing a pilot training program to develop a “Digital Factory” in Perry County. The “Digital Factory” will take advantage of the Internet’s digital highway and will be divided into various production lines requiring increasing skills, similar to a standard factory concept.
VisionPerry headquarters has been outfitted with high-speed Internet and has the technical capabilities to be utilized as both a training and work-center facility. Training programs will initially place an emphasis on the development of customer service representatives. The self-paced training program will develop a skilled, certified workforce who will be in a position to support nationally based companies with call center services. In addition to the customer service line, a digital “piecework” line and a more highly skilled program line will also be developed.
The highly skilled Digital Factory line will also be known as Lamp Programmers. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Php/PERL which are the most popular open source programming languages in the world. Tennessee has a large shortage of programming talent in LAMP and the Nashville market in particular is making every effort to encourage its growth. These workers will require approximately six months of training and internship with Nashville-based companies.
VisionPerry was chosen as a first launch site due to the major progress already made to create a community-based center for new economic development. Long term plans include the development of a large technology-savvy, regional digital workforce who can work remotely from centralized work-centers. The presence of such a workforce in the region will act as an attractor for new companies to the area.
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