Vermont Tech Employee Named Vermont's Outstanding Older Worker

Vermont Tech Employee Named Vermont's Outstanding Older Worker
RANDOLPH CENTER, Vt - A Vermont Technical College employee has been honored as Vermont's Outstanding Older Worker for 2008. Awarded to a single older employee in each of the 50 states, the Outstanding Older Worker program recognizes the important contributions of America's working seniors while providing numerous positive examples of productive aging.
This year's Vermont recipient, James J. McNichol of Essex Junction, is a Learning Partner at Vermont Technical College who works with IBM, helping the company capture and transfer knowledge to a global internal audience.
The Outstanding Older Worker program is part of Experience Works, a national, charitable, community-based organization that helps seniors get the training they need to find good jobs in their local communities. McNichol, who was associated with IBM for more than 35 years before joining Vermont Tech, has made significant contributions to the company in the areas of e-learning, engineering, and computer technologies.
"I am both delighted and humbled to win this year's Vermont OOW award," McNichol said. "I have always been interested in education and I have been fortunate to be able to blend this interest in education with my industrial experience - in the midst of rapidly evolving technologies I might add - while working for Vermont Technical College."
Started in 1965, Experience Works is a leader in providing training, job placement and community service for America's older workers. It offers programs designed to help mature individuals enter the workforce, secure more challenging positions, move into new career areas, and supplement their incomes.
The Technology Extension Division (TED) at Vermont Technical College was established in 1991 to meet the education and training needs of Vermont employers. Drawing on the resources of the Vermont State Colleges and nationally recognized training vendors, TED provides educational and training programscredit, non-credit and onlinein supervision and management, health care, computer technology, and other content areas.