Graduate Connections

Graduate Connections – Meet Curtis Ambrose

Curtis, 55, graduated the nine-month Electro-Mechanical Technologies (EMT) program at RSI in 2016. Curtis is a member of the Navajo Nation tribe and is originally from a small community called Wide Ruin, Arizona, north east of Holbrook. Today Curtis resides and works for himself in Kayenta, Arizona. Thanks for sharing your story, Curtis. What brought […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Bryan Ellis

Bryan, 41, from Walnut Creek, CA, graduated from the nine-month Electro-Mechanical Technologies (EMT) program at RSI in March 2021. Thanks for your time Bryan; tell us about your career before coming to RSI? I previously worked in sales and education. I worked for Home Depot for many years selling to contractors and construction companies. After […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Chris Standifer

Chris, 39, from Phoenix, AZ, graduated the nine-month Electro-Mechanical Technologies (EMT) program at RSI in 2012 and completed the Mechanical Maintenance Engineering degree program six months later. Thanks for sharing your story, Chris. Did you have another career before RSI? I’d been working in the field for about six months when I came to RSI, […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Seth Manuelito

Seth, 20, from Gallup, New Mexico, graduated from the nine-month Electro-Mechanical Technologies (EMT) program at RSI in February 2021. Thanks for your time, Seth. What did you do before you came to RSI? Out of high school in 2019 I got a scholarship to play baseball at a Christian school in Kentucky. I did that […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Kevin Kinnard

Kevin, 32, from Colorado Springs, CO, graduated from the six-month Refrigeration Technologies (RT) program at RSI in March 2021. Thanks for your time, Kevin. What you did you do after high school? I went to community college to take my basic prerequisites. After that I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, so I […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Scott McArthur Jr

Scott, 28, from New Jersey, graduated from the Refrigeration Technologies program at RSI in January 2021. Thanks for your time Scott; how long have you been in Arizona? I moved here in 2019; it was a restart, a reset for us. We had some personal things going on back in Jersey. So, I bought a […]

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Graduate Connections – Alexis Lopez Garcia

Alexis, 23, a Phoenix, Arizona native, graduated from the Electro-Mechanical Technologies (EMT) program at RSI in October 2020. Thanks for your time, Alexis. What you did you do before you came to RSI? After graduating high school, I went straight to ASU. I wanted to get a degree and become a Physical Therapist, but that […]

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