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From geeks to masters
Metro State prepares students to meet demands
of
growing technology field
Cell phones, iPods, BlackBerrys and laptops. Everyone from today’s youth to Baby Boomers has grown dependent on some type of technology, and rarely do they think about how they work until they don’t work. That’s when the behind-the-scenes people are sometimes revealed.
Long thought of as the geeks of the business world, they are now considered masters, according to results of the nationally accredited Information Systems Analyst (ISA) exam. Students taking the test can earn two different levels of ISA certification. A score of 50 or higher yields the title of ISA practitioner. At 70 percent or higher, they earn the title of ISA master.
Metropolitan State College of Denver Computer Information Systems Department has a history of producing masters.
Spring 2008 graduate Chad Kropf, 28, had the highest test score in the country on the nationally accredited ISA exam, and the second-highest score in the exam’s history at 79.457 percent on the test given in April. He now works in Hutchinson, Kan. as an application developer for Data Center, Inc. Kropf’s part of a fast-growing field...
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