Videos with our Partners and Supporters

In October 2021, 130 bright, determined, and entrepreneurial participants completed the Reskill Americans inaugural 2021 software development training program. On December 7, we hosted a Final Demo Day as an opportunity for a few of our participants to showcase their projects so that the tech community could learn a bit more about our program and our participant base.

On October 21st, HBO Max, a WarnerMedia company, hosted a Job Fair with Reskill Americans to share details about more than 100 of its open roles ranging from software developers and UX roles to product designers and program managers.

On September 27th, Teddy Buriss, a LinkedIn Strategist, Trainer and Coach, hosted a Job Fair for our participants about using LinkedIn as a career transition tool. Teddy’s offered tips and insights for ways to leverage LinkedIn to help your job search and career transition and shared some of best practices for building a professional LinkedIn Profile, a relevant LinkedIn Network, and building a professional brand on LinkedIn.

We sat down with Marina Nitze, a former CTO and entrepreneur, to address questions from our participants that are considering freelancing or starting their own businesses. Marina started her career in 2000 with a business as a web developer for celebrity websites, and 13 years later, she was serving as CTO of the U.

At our Town Hall on September 14th, David Fowler, Software Architect at Microsoft, shared insights and advice about how to prepare for a technical interview. David started his career at Microsoft as an intern, and has over 13 years of experience working on developer frameworks and tools.

On September 13th, we chatted with Danielle (Dani) Storlie, Senior Director of Design at Procore Technologies, a construction management software company. Dani has worked for more than a decade in software design, including at Sonos and Deloitte Digital, and consulted for early-stage startup and fortune 500 brands while at Deloitte such as Target, Amazon, and FoxSports.

On August 18th, we hosted a Job Fair with SoftwareONE, the global cloud software management and consulting company, which was recruiting for its SoftwareONE Academy, 12-week paid apprenticeship program. Nina Unger, Talent Acquisition Partner at SoftwareONE shared details about the program, the four-step interview process, and links to apply.

As we entered the ninth week of the Project Phase of our program, our 18th Town Hall featured two leaders in software at Sonos, Inc: Andrew Kwatinetz, Director of Software Product, and Eric Patey, Senior Director.

On July 12th, we spoke with Mike Coleman who works for Google Cloud as a developer advocate where he’s focused on helping to inspire people to do amazing things with Google Cloud’s technology.

On Monday June 28th, we invited Tony Wright, CEO, entrepreneur and UI/UX designer to speak at our Town Hall. Tony, CEO of Rescue Time, has a long career as an entrepreneur, founding numerous startups, including through the famed Y-Combinator startup incubator.

On Monday, June 14th, we hosted our 14th Town Hall with Laurent Pierre, General Manager of Customer Experience, Engineering Support (CXP) for Microsoft Azure. Laurent shared his background, the positions that his department is hiring for, the opportunities for candidates that have nontraditional (non-tech) backgrounds, and advice for how to grow your career in tech.

On Monday, June 7th, as participants started the Project Phase (Phase II) of our program, we hosted our 13th Town Hall with SoftwareONE employees Nina Unger, Talent Acquisition Partner, and Bill Winans, Regional Director.

On Monday, May 24th, as participants started their 11th week of course instruction, we hosted our 12th Town Hall with guest speaker Kedasha Kerr, a Design Systems Engineer at a large insurance company.

On Monday, May 17th, as participants started their tenth week of course instruction, we hosted our 11th Town Hall with guest speaker Dev Nambi, Principal Data Engineer at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (@fredhutch).

On Monday, May 10th, as participants started their ninth week of course instruction, we hosted our 10th Town Hall with Eric Johnson, Director of Innovation at Bright Machines, which is an industrial automation start up that’s building the digital infrastructure for modern manufacturing.

On Monday, May 3rd, as participants started their eighth week of course instruction, we hosted our ninth Town Hall with Columbus Steward, a principal software engineer manager at Microsoft who was looking to hire a software developer to join his ten-person team.

On Monday, April 26th, as participants started their seventh week of course instruction, we hosted our eighth Town Hall with two software engineers who work in technology groups at BlackRock, Inc.

On Monday, April 19th as participants started their sixth week of course instruction, we hosted our seventh Town Hall with guest speaker Deborah Russell, from the Workforce Investment Council, a national governmental organization that provides people with job resources to help them enter the workforce.

On Monday, April 12th as nearly 1,000 participants started their fifth week of course instruction, we hosted our sixth Town Hall with guest speaker David Ortiz, CEO and Founder of SimWin Sports, which develops groundbreaking experiences at the intersection of fantasy sports, sports betting, and E-sports.

On Monday, April 5th, we hosted our fifth Town Hall which featured our guest speaker, Nick Curry, Head of Military Initiatives, Technical Apprenticeships, and Diversity Internships at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

On Monday, March 22nd, we launched the first week of learning for our software development training program: participants made a decision about which track they would select, and began their journey installing their development environment and completing their first assignments.

On Monday, March 15th, we officially launched our software development training program: a week-long orientation where participants were introduced to the details of each track (Front-End, Back-end, Mobile, and User Experience & Design).