Texas native Kayci Parcells is a woman of many talents. At Truman State University, she majored in physics, minored in computer science, and competed in track and field events. But at heart, she has always been a designer. Through Revature, she found a way to combine her passion with a high-octane career in tech.

Upon graduation, Kayci started looking for a software engineering job that would include practical, on-the-job training. She found it.

“Revature ended up being the perfect fit,” she says.

The training in Java was in-depth, state-of-the-art, and directly related to the client project she was about to undertake. Equally important, the program gave her a major confidence boost—one that enabled her to go into the project with self-assurance, teach the skills she had learned to her fellow developers, and lead her team to success.

After training, Kayci was placed with a prominent financial company. They liked her work so much that they hired her full-time even before her Revature contract ended. She was quickly promoted from software development engineer in test to software engineer II. Still yearning for a career focused on design, Revature proved to be a crucial stepping stone to that long-term goal.

Today, as a user-experience (UX) designer for a major life-sciences company, she has managed to merge her passion with her training in software development. “The knowledge I gained during my years as a software developer has made me a more highly sought after UX designer,” she says. “Revature set me on the right track to achieving my goals."