MEET MARY JANE – REGIONAL DIRECTOR AT THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (WDI)
(Council of Industry, 5/21/19)
Mary Jane is the Regional Director at the Workforce Development Institute (WDI) in the seven counties: Sullivan, Orange, Ulster, Dutchess, Columbia and Rockland. Her job is to work with partners in the region on expanding, promoting and retaining the workforce. Mary Jane works with non-profits, unions, businesses, government and education providers to identify regional workforce challenges and find solutions to those problems. WDI also gathers data on the jobs of tomorrow and uses that information to help prepare the future workforce and employers in an effort to keep those jobs in the region.
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Faces of New York State Manufacturing: Fabwell Studios
(Fuzebhub Blog, 5/16/19)
Fabwell Studios of Rochester, New York provides metal fabrication and welding services for custom projects. The company specializes in food-grade steel and tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding, but also makes hand rails, exhaust systems, signage, artwork, and safety screens for professional baseball teams. “We truly are a custom shop,” says Philip De Mattia, the company’s owner. “We’re too dumb to be engineers,” he jokes, “and too smart to be fabricators.”
De Mattia, a native of Wales, understands the value of hard work. As a teenager, he attended trade school in the United Kingdom. “The education is very different there,” he explains, and spanned 12-hour days and six-day workweeks. “That would probably be considered child abuse in the U.S.,” he half-jokes. But when De Mattia was just 13, he decided to enroll in trade school because he knew he wanted to build things.
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