At SMU PRO, we provide diverse, innovative and affordable corporate or contract training to students of all ages and backgrounds. Our corporate program services equip students with the knowledge and skills to transform their lives and organizations. Whether you’re looking to build your team’s soft skills, increase technical know-how or improve the group dynamic, we have a solution for you.
We offer training services in communication, data analytics, digital marketing, leadership and project management for corporations, not-for-profit organizations and government agencies. We can also provide customized business and technology solutions and training at your location or on campus.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Digital marketing and social media
- Data analytics
- Supervision best practices (team building, communication, soft skills)
- Public speaking and presentation skills
- Customer experience and customer journey mapping
- Change management and team dynamics
- Project management/Agile
- Written communications and technical writing
- Guidance for business solutions from our Corporate Programs experts
Innovative Courses for 2019:
- Cloud Application for Complex Systems Integration
- Data Mining and AI
- Data Visualization
- Deep Learning
- IP Security
- Natural-Language Processing
- Security Basics<
When you partner with SMU PRO, you benefit from:
- Expertise of SMU PRO instructors
- Custom training at your location or ours
- Group discounts on our public courses
- Tuition reimbursement options for your staff
For more information on group rates for open-enrollment courses, or to design a custom program for your organization, please call 972-473-3469 or contact us.
Our Mini-Certificate Program
Our mini-certificates are custom made by leading professionals in the field of Data Science and Cybersecurity. Tailored to fit your company needs, these short 15-hour courses focus on topics ranging from Cloud Application, Data Visualization, IP Security, Natural Language Processing, and more. Using a combination of asynchronous instruction from industry professionals and tactical, on-site training, your employees will gain more knowledge and insight into the latest in cutting edge technology and engineering.
SMU Mini-Certificates (custom) brief descriptions:
- Cloud Application for Complex Systems Integration
Topics include: understanding the shift to cloud computing, storage (all tiers), cloud security and networking, and disaster recovery within cloud.
- Data Mining and AI Topics
Topics include: loading into Python, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, deep learning involving artificial neural nets, gaming, data security, natural language processing, trend recognition, information systems design, and algorithms-what, how, who, when, etc.
- Data Visualization
Topics include: the science and best practices of visualizing data, choosing chart types, key mistakes designers make in data visualizations, and building your data visualization toolbox (applications, websites, programming, and languages).
- Introduction to Deep Learning
Topics include: exploring what neural networks and deep learning are, where and how to run deep learning, classifying images using tensorflow and the cifar10 dataset, natural language processing using DNN’s, generating text using RNN’s and Keras, putting deep learning modles in production, and creating web service URL endpoints for object detection using custom vision cognitive services.
- IP Security
Topics include: network fundamentals (layers and operations, topologies, and devices), IPv4 and 6, TCP/IP, TLS, Mac addresses, ARP Poisoning, introduction to firewalls, Dos attacks, and networking monitoring/mapping.
- Security Basics
Topics include: basic security terminology, threats (employee, malware, criminal, competitor, and lone cyber attacker), Cyber war and terrorism, ethics, compliance laws and regulations, corporate security organization, risk analysis, and information hiding fundamental.
- System Level Security
Topics include: hardware fundamentals, virtual machines, OS fundamentals (file systems, accounts, system commands, and more), command line execution, passwords, two-factor authentication, directory servers, firewalls, host and application security, and backups/archiving.
- Important Tasks within Natural-Language Processing
Topics include: applications of NLP (search and speech applications, machine translation, question answering, and more), levels of analysis of NLP, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis.
