Richard A. Gooding

APPOINTED: Richard A. Gooding of Cadiz has been appointed president of the Kaplan Career Institute in downtown Pittsburgh.

Gooding brings many years of experience in education to the position, having graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University and having done graduate work at Indiana University in Kokomo, Ind.

He has previously held positions at York Technical Institute in York, Pa., ITT Technical Institute in Mechanicsburg, Pa., and most recently as director of the ITT School in Pittsburgh.

He is married to the former Linda Shawhan of Steubenville, a daughter of the late Hobert Shawhan and Lessel Shawhan of North Carolina, former longtime Steubenville residents.

SCHOOL DIRECTOR: Richard Gooding

SCHOOL DIRECTOR: Richard A. Gooding

Rich Gooding - Technical Director

Richard graduated in Electronic and Computer Engineering from University of Portsmouth in 2003 but has been playing with computers and Linux machines in particular since around the time he could talk.

Always on the cutting edge of open source development, Richard has turned down numerous Hollywood offers for roles as "the hacker" on the grounds that their shutter speeds can't keep up with his fingers.OK, we lied about that bit.

Richard's skill set includes all the geeky stuff you might expect.And more ...

In between times Richard is to be found stoking the boilers of steam engines and or playing the guitar, neither of which have very much to do with developing leading-edge server systems, and that's their main attraction!