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SECTOR SPOTLIGHT - DIGITAL CAREERS
Case Study
Lori French is an Emerging Technology Developer
Consultant at IBM, studying a degree level 6
apprenticeship in Software Engineering. Lori helps to
deliver and develop projects such as building chatbots
and working on other emerging tech.
Lori says: “I work with IBM research, building what’s
called proof of concepts – essentially demos that prove the
technology is viable. I’m doing a job I absolutely love and
I’m getting my degree through my apprenticeship.”
University Case Study
Entrepreneur and games programmer Adam Boyne
set up BetaJester with two friends he met at University,
where he did a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
with Games Development (with Industrial Experience).
Now Adam works with businesses across the UK to build
exciting virtual and augmented reality experiences. He
continues to also work on games with his co-founders in
between contracts.
“When I was younger, I was told that the games industry was
only for the hyper-competitive elite, an unobtainable pipedream.
It was only when I studied Computer Science and made
my first text-based game that I realised that this was something
I could do as a career, and now with all the opportunities for
young people, anyone can break into the industry!”
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