Information Technology

Nick Waddell

Network Engineer

High School: Appomattox County (’04)

Career & Technical Ed. Program Studied: Computer Information Systems, Agriculture

Additional Studies/Training: AAS/Central Va. Community College; BS/Rochester Institute of Technology; pursuing master’s degree from Virginia Tech online

Connecting CTE to a Career

As a high school senior, Nick Waddell took a Telenetworking class through a dual-enrollment program at Central Virginia Community College. Two weeks after completing that class, he was an employee at Tyco Electronics—and his employer soon had him back on the campus of CVCC in a work/study plan that eventually extended to the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Now a network engineer, Nick is still quick to point out the value of his high school dual-enrollment experience. “Being on campus helped you get into the college environment a little bit, it helped with time management...and then there was the actual course content itself: those telenetworking classes were the foundation of what I do every day now.”