Our Approach
Our primary focus is providing the best SDN & Cloud training for our customers. As a training company we strive to keep our overhead as low as possible to ensure we can give our customers the high-end engineers, developers and trainers they need while still maintaining the lowest costs in the industry.
One way we do this is by exclusively leveraging independent contractors, small businesses and a minimal employee count. The nature of our business keeps us onsite at our customer’s locations – we come to you. Many of our courses are taught virtually as well. This means we maintain an almost exclusive work-at-home model, including our owners, ensuring we don’t need to account for unnecessary costs with maintaining office buildings, classrooms, etc. We measure success by seeing our customers move their businesses ahead rather than by bragging about how many buildings we own.
Another way we do this is by contracting recently separated US Veterans for our project management, editing and program management services. This allows us to help our nation’s heroes while they are transitioning into new careers. These Veterans bring a wealth of talent in these spaces. Many are pursuing careers in IT, so they get to work alongside our experts when they are not engaged in a project.
Our Story
Our owners met while working together in a national Veteran focused non-profit, Victory For Veterans. The focus of VFV is to provide housing, medical, financial and employment services to give US Veterans hope. The goal is to minimize Veteran suicide by giving them a foot forward. Several years ago they introduced an IT Apprenticeship program and it was through this program that they realized a major gap existed in the industry. Existing vendor training and certification programs were not providing the needed skills for the Next Generation of Network Engineers.
In January 2018, they began forming the idea around SDN PROS LLC., a company that would focus on developing SDN & Cloud focused courses. These courses would teach core networking topics while also including NETOPS and Automation through programming languages. Initially, the focus was on US Veterans but they soon realized this was a much needed service for major vendors and corporations globally.
Meet our Team
Steve Durgin
Co-Founder & CEO
As CEO, Steve brings decades of experience as a business owner and CFO for many top companies. Steve continues to spend his spare time heavily involved in the Veteran Non-profit space and has an incredible ability to bring people together. Click on the Facebook link to learn more of the Veteran and First Responder initiatives under way.
Shawn Jones
Co-Founder & COO
Shawn is a US Army Veteran and operates as the COO overseeing the project management of our course development engagements. Besides Victory for Veterans, he is actively engaged in many other projects in his spare time including (TX)NUG Central which aims to be a vendor neutral networking group for network engineers in Central Texas. Click on the Meetup link to learn more about this group or visit at txnug.org.