Two military veterans on our teams worked to help a nonprofit better serve former military personnel transitioning into civilian life.
Everyone at Centric spends much of their time helping organizations learn to communicate, collaborate and build effective teams — just like military organizations do.
So when two Centric team members — who also served in the military — saw the chance to stand up 微软365 for a nonprofit that provides mentoring and career development support to veterans, 他们欣然接受.
其中一个是Mike Rogers，我们的 哥伦布 运营团队和非营利组织的创始人， 看守伙伴关系. He served in the Ohio Air National Guard for 16 years, 最近一次是在178安全部队中队. Earlier in his career, he served with the 160th Aerial Refueling Group.
First Image: Outside Baghdad International Airport walking back from a memorial for an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bomb Technician. 第二印象:我当时18岁, sitting in the middle of the desert as part of Desert Shield, which then turned into Desert Storm when we officially kicked off combat operations on January 17, 1991. Third Image: All decked out in my dress blues and getting ready to speak at my daughter’s school for 退伍军人 Day.
“看守伙伴关系 supports the transition to civilian employment for veterans by providing a network of mentors and human resource professionals to enable an improved career transition,”罗杰斯解释说.
另一个为中心的兽医, 迈克McNett, did the “heavy lifting” on the IT side throughout the pro bono project. 他从美国退休.S. Army’s Signal Corps in 2012 after nearly 30 years of service.
麦克尼特说，这是因为Centric的工作, 看守伙伴关系 can now use modern collaboration tools to work better together, allowing the organization to continue helping veterans transition from active service to civilian life.
第一张图片:18岁时, 高中毕业一年后, attending Army ROTC Advanced Camp prior to being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1985. Second Image: This was from Desert Storm as I was assigned as the Communications Operations Officer within “Task Force Freedom,” responsible for providing all military communications between military coalition forces in Kuwait City and the rest of the theater. Third Image: My wife and I at my 29-year military retirement ceremony – everyone in a military family makes sacrifices, and my wife Debbie and daughter Kelsie (now serving as a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves) have been by my side throughout this adventure!
“We assisted in 看守伙伴关系’s licensing of users, migrating files from their G-Suite environment to 微软365, 并为他们提供最佳实践建议,”McNett说. “Our work will help 看守伙伴关系 establish 微软团队 as their primary tool to collaborate across their leadership team and between the mentors and mentees.”
“Social networks of veterans and non-veterans alike are critical to the organization’s ability to build networks of mentors and human resources professionals that enable an improved career transition and hiring for our veterans,”他补充道. “微软团队 and 微软365 enables those networks.”
McNett also worked with Centric 技术 Supervisor Sandeep Brar and other members of our IT team to donate used laptops to another veterans’ nonprofit, VCAS在俄亥俄州的特拉华地区. In addition, he currently serves in various leadership positions at the 哥伦布 chapter of 红白蓝三队 and was Executive Director of the 哥伦布 chapter of 邦克实验室. Like 看守伙伴关系, they help veterans transition from military to civilian life.
“We greatly appreciate having so much great support from Centric for veterans!”McNett说. “我们很荣幸能做到这一点 无与伦比的体验 for those who have served our country and the organizations that support them.”
In honor of our employees who have served in the United States Military, Centric also made a donation to the Wounded Warrior Project.