Gregory Vaughn

Gregory Vaughn is our founder and lead instructor. Greg has more than 25 years of experience in the training and education field. Greg began working in training while an active-duty member of the United States Air Force. As a member of a Strategic Training Squadron, Greg provided live training to, and created computer-based training programs that reached thousands of students.

Also, while on active duty and realizing that he would like a career in training, specifically computer training, Greg worked diligently to achieve two Bachelor of Science degrees, while still fulfilling his military requirements. Greg gained Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science, and in Vocational Education. This dynamic duo of educational achievement was the perfect preparation for a career teaching digital literacy, minus one equally important component. That component being actual experience doing the job that he hoped to train students for.

Greg changed his Air Force career field into Computer Programming and spent his last nine years on active duty learning the trade. During those 9 years Greg worked with several programming languages, including COBOL, Assembler, Visual Basic, and more. The last of those years was spent as Database Developer using Oracle. We believe that the best instructors are those who not only have been trained in the science of educating, but actually have performed those skills that they train for "in the real world". Greg's education, and extensive experience prepared him excellently for his post-military career as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department of a Chicago-based two-year college.

During his 15 years at the college, Greg taught hundreds (maybe thousands) of students, perfecting his classroom demeanor, and consistently enhancing his knowledge to keep up with the quickly evolving technology field.

The next stop for Greg was as a Manager/ Lead instructor of workforce-based education at one of Chicago's oldest, largest, and most respected social service agencies. Here again, Greg was able to assist hundreds of community members achieve their goals of becoming computer literate, preparing for jobs that require office automation skills, get nationally recognized certifications, and get the skills necessary to start and successfully run businesses.

In additions to teaching classes, during his time at this organization, Greg also created several educational and workforce based programs to enhance the clients' job prospects. These included:

• Office Administration and Technology
• Data Analysis with Excel and Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Microsoft Word and Excel Core and Expert Certification preparation programs
• All Net, a youth based program that afforded middle and high school aged students the opportunity to learn web design technologies while also participating on a basketball team that competed in local tournaments
• Tech In a Day: Complete coverage of individual Office Technology Programs executed in one workday's time frame