AR147 apprenticeship week proclamation

1:36:35So we have a Walk on. I'm gonna I need a motion to hear that, don't I? Let me see here.

1:36:40On the addendum of the No,

1:36:41you're not on the emotion. It's on the addendum. Is it on it is on the addendum? Okay, great. Um AR147. And I think I'm gonna pass that to Commissioner Starkey, aren't I?

1:36:51Yes, and um let's see if we can get this Zoom thing working. Um we have a Um today we give a proclamation. It is manufacturing month or apprenticeship month, one of those two. Um so we have a special award this morning and can we s can we get that up? Please and you know, because we can't have the public in our uh boardrooms, we um We are

1:37:22doing this virtually and I see Peter Brzezinski's. There they are. There

1:37:27you go.

1:37:28So there is Peter Brzezinski. Is that that far or where you work?

1:37:35I'm at the uh Starkey Ranch. Ha ha. Now this is my

1:37:42I'm uh I'm working from home today, actually. So that's the rest of the crew over there. Hey.

1:37:48Okay, so um I think Tom is ready to go. And Tom, can you uh explain uh what we're doing this morning real quick?

1:37:55Yes. Are you able to hear me okay?

1:37:58Yes.

1:37:59All right. Well, good morning. My name is Tom Madano. I'm the CEO of AM Skills Manufacturing Training and Apprenticeships. I want to first thank the Pasco County Commissioners for your support of AMSkills and for recognizing National Apprenticeship Week. As we celebrate apprenticeships around the country, we also would like to recognize someone who has recently finished his AMSkills apprenticeship here at Farmer Works in Pasco County. Justin Bose, who's here at the head of the table, is one of our first

1:38:29high school students who started with the AM skills in 2015. Justin attended an engineering program. When he learned about the AMSkills program and he attended it after school during his junior and senior year. And upon graduation, he knew he wanted to go into manufacturing. Anskills helped him to secure a job at a local manufacturer. However, they did not have an apprenticeship program. So after

1:38:59a year working there, he requested a transfer. And it was at that time that Justin interviewed with Peter Brzezensky, who was president of PharmaWorks at that time. Throughout the interview, Peter saw the potential in Justin and was impressed with his enthusiasm and work ethic and hired Justin on April 16th, 2018, as an Amskills apprentice. PharmaWorks is committed to helping all apprentices and provided Justin the opportunity to be a part

1:39:29of all aspects of the company. Justin was able to move from basic tasks to more detailed tasks, precision type task and eventually became a part of the setup crew to prepare machines for customer visits. During the training and of setting up the equipment, Ingo Federal vice president and technical director spent valuable hours, and he's behind me, I believe, back here. Spent valuable hours teaching Justin lifelong

1:40:00skills on setting up equipment, troubleshooting equipment, and involved him innumerable, innumerable tasks that helped him grow in his career. The knowledge and experience have had led Justin to quickly advance to his current role as service technician, currently working with Bill Sugg, service manager, who's also here. At the age of 22, Justin has installed multimillion dollar machines at several key Pharmaworks

1:40:30customer locations across the country, including Mexico, Hungary, and many cities across the United States. In fact, Justin's work travel schedule And um because of that, Amskills was not able to present him last year because he received the Apprentice of the Year Award from Amskills and was selected by his peers. So today, Justin Amskills wants to congratulate, congratulate

1:41:01you on your accomplishments by presenting to you your Florida department. We have Jim here. Uh his born Department of Education Apprenticeship Certificate. As an industrial mechanic, as well as a $500 check in recognition for him as Amskills Apprentice of the Year.

1:41:22Yeah.

1:41:23Today we have many people with us, uh including Ben Brouwer, who's the general manager of PharmaWorks and many of his uh team members here. And I want to now introduce Peter Brzezinski, Vice President of FarmWorks, who wants to say a few final words.

1:41:40Yeah, I Well first of all I just want to say Thank you so much to the county. I mean, the county has been so extremely supportive of this program that was just been a rolling snowball of development and a lot of unanswered questions. And so we really appreciate your patience. And and we know this is a long term approach to um to really a successful Justin is a great example. of how apprenticeships work. And

1:42:10it's uh it's really great just to see that uh, you know, he gets a really great, well-rounded foundation through the people that are in the room there, through others that are mentors. And um, you know, that allows him to have up opportunities. I mean, we're able to see the benefit from him immediately. And uh and and Justin's got a bunch of great uh you know, multiple career pathways if he chooses, because of that foundation. So Um You know, The investment pays off. And we want to be able to show

1:42:41case, basically just into students, parents, educators, and industry that this works. You know, it is, it is an effect an extremely effective solution towards growing our future talent pipeline. And uh and AMP Skills is the de facto resource to help support and educate industry. Yeah, you know, in in doing our part. in uh in providing these apprenticeships. So uh we appreciate you know the support of AMP Skills, the county, uh, everybody that's you know contributed

1:43:11to this young man. And uh we just see that it it works. It's just this this is the model for the future for growing growing our talent. So it's it's really great recognize um Yeah, Justin and and uh appreciate everybody's help. It's been fantastic to see that. Thank you.

1:43:28Thank you, Peter. And what a great opportunity that we have a 22 year old Pasco County resident. Who's now traveling the world? I mean, God, it just chokes me up. I'm so Congratulations to all of you and thank and thank you, Justin, for uh going through our program and again I appreciate the board support of programs like this and the businesses uh Peter like yours that step up and um You know, we are now one

1:43:58of only two registered apprenticeship programs in the state of Florida. We were the first. So um It's

1:44:04and it's actually the nation's really looking. The nation is really looking to see what we're doing here, you know, in Pasco County. It's really impressive to hear that. So

1:44:13Yeah, so thank you everyone. Thank you. Thanks, Tom. Thank you, Justin. Is just is he is he gonna

1:44:18congratulations, Justin. Thank you.

1:44:23Thank you.

1:44:24All right.

1:44:29Hi, thanks everybody.