Omaha, October 8, 2018 - The Metropolitan Community College (MCC) has been named EPI-USA National Training Center in the United States. Through this partnership, MCC and EPI-USA will offer EPI’s globally accredited certified data center training courses in Omaha at the College’s Center for Advanced and Emerging Technology on the Fort Omaha Campus.

This partnership helps address the shortage of trained data center professionals in the central region of the country and throughout the USA.

Edward van Leent, Chairman & CEO, EPI Group of Companies, “We are very excited to have MCC as a teaching site for EPI’s data center certification courses. We are confident that the EPI/MCC partnership will serve the USA data center market well and will solidify Omaha’s position as the central destination for globally-accredited data center training throughout the USA and Canada. This is an important strategic partnership.”

Beginning this fall, industry professionals and MCC students can attend onsite classes at MCC or participate via the online training option. The courses lead to industry recognised data center certifications on facility infrastructure design, operations management, and audit/certification. Each course includes a globally accredited exam from EXIN, an international accreditation and examination organization. EPI certifications are a mark of excellence for data center professionals and recognised by data center operators/owners, including many Fortune 500 companies who have chosen EPI training as the best way to gain the competences required in this everchanging field.

According to David Montalbano, President of EPI-USA, “By partnering with EPI, MCC is able to serve the need for trained professionals in the rapidly growing data center market in the Omaha region and beyond.”

Dr. Tom Pensabene, Executive Director of the Center for Advanced and Emerging Technology said of the relationship, “MCC is providing students with an educational environment where students will be able to experience a real-life data center with world-class training, which is unique offering in the data center training industry.”

From left: MCC Project Manager, Robert Caldwell; EPI team, David Montalbano, Sandra Levin, Jack Pyne, Don Byrne.

About EPI-USA

EPI-USA is the official representative for data centre training of EPI in the North American region. Since 2011, EPI-USA has trained thousands of data center professionals. Headquartered in California, the company offers public, onsite, and online training classes.

About MCC

Metropolitan Community College, accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, is a comprehensive, public community college that offers affordable, quality education to all residents of Dodge, Douglas, Sarpy and Washington counties. Founded in 1974, MCC has the largest enrollment out of six community colleges in Nebraska and is the second largest post-secondary institution in the state. MCC serves more than 40,000 unique credit and non-credit students.

About EPI

EPI is a global data centre specialist company with 9 offices worldwide.  Of European-origin, EPI has over 30 years of experience, operating in over 60 countries and 130 cities through direct operations and a large partner network.  EPI offers an extensive range of data centre expert services which include accredited data centre and IT training, audit and certification, and the DCOS® (Data Centre Operations Standard).   EPI is a registered Certification Body (CB) and the world’s largest provider of accredited data centre training and ANSI/TIA-942 conformity audit and certification services.

EPI’s reputation has been built on delivering high quality technical expertise with a continuous drive for excellence and innovation.  Always on the leading edge in its areas of expertise, EPI has released many world’s first innovations including the DCOS® - Data Centre Operations Standard®, Data Centre Framework®, DCCF® - Data Centre Competence Framework®, DCPT^© - Data Centre Career Planning Tool, Data Centre Training Framework®, and the EPI IT Training Framework®. For more information visit www.epi-ap.com.

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