It was Brandon Lyons’ father who told him about the Nashville Software School. Lyons had been laid off from his job as a Tennessee Department of Child Services officer and needed work. Given his early interest in computers, his father encouraged him to apply to the new nonprofit’s six-month program.
Since graduating in 2014, Lyons has become a software developer at app builder Metova in Franklin. He is mentoring new programmers and has more than doubled his salary since he left the child services department. Attending the software school was the best decision he has ever made, he said.
“At the time, I was a college dropout, I was just basically going and working jobs,” Lyons said. “Now I work in an industry where I’m constantly being challenged. … It’s changing my life.” (continue reading at Tennessean)