John Wark

John started programming professionally at age 19. After a long and multifarious career in technology, he founded NSS in 2012. He believed that Nashville's technology talent shortage would never be solved by trying to import experienced developers from other cities or by waiting for colleges and universities to start graduating enough students and/or appropriately trained students. He also had faith that Nashville had an ample supply of motivated adults with latent aptitude who, if offered a chance, would eagerly pursue a career in technology.
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How Is Everyone Feeling About Returning To In-person Classes?
May 20, 2020
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Given all this uncertainty, how does NSS decide when and how to reopen? How do we judge when it’s safe to ask 30 people to sit shoulder to shoulder in a classroom for six or seven hours a day? To help us measure attitudes and sentiment, we took the first of several surveys of continuing students and of all staff last week. Read More
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Remote Learning For Remote Working
Apr 28, 2020
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With many freelancers working 100% remote and even more traditional organizations allowing developers to work remotely at least part of the work week, we want to prepare our students for opportunities of all kinds, including remote work. Read More
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Topics: Learning

What's The Plan For Reopening Nashville Software School
Apr 23, 2020
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Now that Nashville Metro government has shared their plan for how the local economy reopens, we know that our students and community want more insight into the plan for reopening NSS. Here’s what we know as of today. Read More
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Has the Job Market Caught the Coronavirus?
Apr 16, 2020
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Day-to-day life has stabilized a bit for our students and staff. It doesn’t mean we’re liking it, but we are adjusting to it. Now it’s time to lift our gaze, look to the future and try to anticipate and plan for what will, and may be, happening in the next weeks and months. Read More
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Topics: News

NSS Coronavirus Update - Week of April 6
Apr 7, 2020
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It’s our fourth full week of fully online/remote operation here at NSS. And it’s yet another week where we’ll have several chances to say, “Well, we’ve never done things this way before!” This week we tackled onboarding two new classes remotely and several career development events. Read More
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NSS Coronavirus Update - Week of March 30
Mar 31, 2020
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We are into the third full week of our response to COVID-19. Here's the latest at NSS. Read More
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Topics: News

An Update On Bringing NSS Online During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Mar 24, 2020
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It’s been a little over a week since our first big update on how we’re responding to COVID-19 and we’re settling in to our new normal. We hope you are too! Students and instructors are feeling more comfortable with their new online tools. And they’re even finding the silver-lining in the situation. Read More
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Topics: News, Community

What is NSS doing about COVID-19?
Mar 16, 2020
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It has been an interesting two weeks in Nashville. It started with a tornado that took lives and damages homes and businesses. Now we face the threat of the coronavirus, more formally known as COVID-19.  Here's what NSS is doing to help flatten the curve. Read More
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Topics: News, Community

NSS Awarded Best in Business Award by Nashville Business Journal
Mar 9, 2020
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Nashville Software School selected by the Nashville Business Journal as this year’s winner of the Best in Business award for small nonprofits. It’s a real honor for us to be selected. It’s recognition that we cherish and appreciate, even if this week feels like a strange time to be celebrating ourselves when our community and friends are suffering. Read More
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Topics: News, Community

1,000 Graduates | NSS Reaches New Milestone
Feb 18, 2020
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It’s incredible to me that we just graduated our 1000th graduate from Nashville Software School. We graduated number 1000, and a whole bunch more, last Friday, February 14 (yes, that’s right, Valentine’s Day!).  We started Valentine’s Day with 995 graduates, by 1 pm we were up to 1036 graduates. Read More
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Topics: News, Community, 10 Years | 2000 Journeys

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