Todd Banks, cofounder of Training Intelligence Solutions, headquartered in Newtown, will be headlining a series of countrywide Microsoft TechReady conferences through 2008.
Banks, who is also TIS”™s lead developer, has been asked by Microsoft to represent the computer software giant at many of the 2008 Microsoft developer conferences. Banks will be one of four developers to host a series of events through 2008 for Microsoft, teaching technical professionals how to integrate the new 2008 server with professional applications and intermediary solutions.
The TIS development team specializes in ASP.NET 2.0 visual blueprint for developing Web applications, and the enterprise data management platform, SQL Server 2005. The three missions of the company are to build Web-based applications for financial and manufacturing companies; training Microsoft-certified partners and IT staff in those applications; and IT and network support.
“It”™s the cutting edge of technology,” said Banks. “I get a chance to work with best and brightest. You get to be an evangelist for one of the best companies in the world, and are able to teach people how to use that technology.”
Banks was initially approached last year by HynesITe Inc., the company that manages Microsoft”™s events, to become a Microsoft certified technical trainer. After receiving his credentials, Banks began his entry into the world of technical learning guides at an education seminar last summer in Florida where he was one of 100 technical trainers from all over the world.
In this coming year, he is one of four trainers who have been asked to lead a variety of seminars across the country and at a tech summit in Las Vegas. Though it seems that Microsoft is not the only one that has taken note of the caliber of the TIS team.
“TIS is 14 months in the making and has landed multiple application development deals and training contracts in Fairfield County,” said Banks.
TIS works with a variety of businesses, including financial, government and pharmaceutical enterprises to develop for each customized applications. TIS has even partnered with the University of Connecticut”™s Information Technology Institute in Stamford and PCS in Shelton and offers open enrollment training schedules for Southern Connecticut Community College and Westchester Community College.
“You hear about all these companies going overseas to build these applications and we”™re building them right here in Fairfield County,” said Gavin Preis, director of business development and partner alliance for TIS and a company cofounder. “It”™s very unique because of the quality of work we”™re doing.”
Banks founded TIS two-years-ago with Preis and Robert Hardy two former co-workers.
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