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Adrianna Holden-Gouveia has been surrounded by technology for as long as she can remember.<\/p><\/div>\n

While other children were playing with toys, a young Adrianna Holden-Gouveia was playing with technology.<\/p>\n

Decades later, she is still playing with technology only now it is at the front of an NECC classroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been into technology,\u201d the NECC computer and information sciences (CIS<\/a>) professor says. \u201cI can\u2019t really remember a time when we didn\u2019t have something tech related in the house to play with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite having grown up with technology or maybe because of it, Holden-Gouveia says, the subject never, ever gets old. Now one of the CIS department\u2019s longer serving faculty, she is a serial learner who absorbs the latest technology and presents it in a relatable way to her students. She is also quick to identify trends and share technology buzz with anyone who has the good fortune to follow her on social media.<\/p>\n

Holden-Gouveia has been instrumental in keeping the CIS program current and within the reach and needs of local employers. In addition to offering top-flight courses, NECC this year unveiled its new networking and security associate degree program<\/a> that all but ensures a high-paying position upon graduation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always changing. I never teach the same course twice\u2026my courses change between 20 and 50 percent each year because I introduce new topics, new books, new assignments, and new skills. Even week to week there is always some breakthrough in technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

With this evolution in mind, Holden-Gouveia has her students bring a tech news item to class each day. She practices what she preaches – often Tweeting news articles relating to technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first 10 minutes of each of my classes begins with tech news,\u201d she says. \u201cWhether it\u2019s gaming, biotechnology, assistive technology, or even a cool, new gadget, something is happening every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she teaches a variety of CIS, information technology, security and networking classes, Holden-Gouveia has a soft spot for the introductory classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so much fun to see the students get into technology if they weren\u2019t already or get more into it if they already were,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Holden-Gouveia was, herself, already into technology when she enrolled at Clark University where she double majored in theoretical math and computer science and minored in art. She also earned an MBA from Rivier University.<\/p>\n

She is continually inspired, she says, by both the diversity of her students and the diversity of her work days. Her classes, she says, are not lecture heavy. She employs helpful hands-on activities and projects, and exposes students to lots of new technology<\/p>\n

\u201cTech is so cool by itself, I don\u2019t have to work too hard to find fun things to do and get students interested,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are literally hundreds of thousands of computer networking and security jobs that are going unfilled,\u201d she says. \u201cThere aren\u2019t enough trained workers to fill the jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now is a great time to enter the CIS field, she says, There were 200,000 unfilled cyber security jobs in the U.S. last year; Some of which not even one person applied, she says. One industry report, she says, indicates that the shortage worldwide is closer to 1 million unfilled jobs in cyber security and data analytics.<\/p>\n

What type of jobs will graduates be prepared to fill? Junior network administrators, system administrators, and anything in disaster recovery or computer security incident response team are a few of the career options.<\/p>\n

Northern Essex offers a variety of computer information sciences associate degrees and certificates. for additional information visit the CIS webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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