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GRAND RAPIDS - The computer technology training business in this community has been intensely competitive until fairly recently, that is.
Currently, Daryl Kingrey said that aside from a miscellany of courses that area colleges and some private entities offer, the local office of New Horizons Computer Learning Centers of Michigan is pretty much alone in what it offers businesses and individual enrollees.
Kingrey is the vice president and general manager for the area's New Horizons operation, recently relocated in a new 17,500-square-foot facility in the Cascade Commons complex at 5315 28th Street Court.
New Horizons, a national firm (Nasdaq: NEWH), has five other Michigan offices: Ann Arbor, East Lansing, Troy, Kalamazoo and its headquarters in Livonia,
With a local client list including Alticor and Meijer Inc., along with many smaller companies, Kingrey explained that New Horizons instructs employees in everything from desktop basics to how to develop in-house programming architecture.
"Right now there's a big surge on the developer side with Microsoft. net," Kingrey said.
"The more advanced level of the languages allows a lot more flexibility, so people are developing their own solutions." Pushing the demand for companytailored solutions, he...