Specialized Software Education
Consultant's Swagger

A significant aspect of the CETi mission is to legitimize our knowledge and codify it in the form of curriculum approved by the New York State Department of Education.

A consultant’s swagger is derived from:

• Having a first-hand insider’s knowledge of the source code and the evolution of the code into the next generation of products. It provides a foundation and privileged perspective from which explanations and detailed diagrams can be made. This is particularly relevant for legacy programming languages developed on first generation mainframe systems software in which information is either no longer available or readily discernible in vendor documentation, and which will be retrofitted for web enablement. The reality of our instructor demographics (50 plus years of age) is a major asset. And simply stated, we have the been there; done that experience.
• Being so busy on billable assignments and in such demand by our clients and third parties as subcontractors, there is no time or economic incentive to take all the source vendor certification products.
• Having been called in as subcontractors for leading software companies to teach their software without any well defined lesson plans, minimal logical structure in course materials nor adherence to the classic teaching methodologies. And being told that we did a good job! We now recognize that the courses did not follow the recognized standards set forth by the Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision, New York State Department of Education.
• Having written critically acclaimed IT text books.
• A realistic assessment that no software is perfect and there is no one single source of absolute knowledge on software. And that the source of excellence is scientific thought and the consistent application of purposeful hard work.
• As errors and bugs in the software and public source documentation are identified (the software companies refer to it as service packs and/or product fixes!), collect the errors and report the findings to our clients, and either disseminate/publish that information on SYS-ED websites or develop training aids that report the information or address the problem.