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Center for Manufacturing Technology names Business Development Manager

Organization is helping to address the critical shortage of qualified advanced manufacturing personnel across the region.

Brian Duprey, CMT's newly-appointed Business Development Manager
Brian Duprey, CMT's newly-appointed Business Development Manager (Drew Crandall)

Brian A. Duprey has been appointed Business Development Manager at the Center for Manufacturing Technology (CMT), an advanced manufacturing training facility that offers a wide range of flexible and customizable, certificate-based, day and evening, on-site or off-site, in-person and online, paid and free programs to meet the critical training needs of candidates and manufacturers across New England. CMT is based at 30 Nashua Street in Woburn.

A native of Holyoke, Duprey graduated from Dean Vocational Technical High School and served as a U.S. Air Force combat engineer in England and Germany for three years. He then held several private-sector design engineering positions before joining MACDAC, a Mastercam CAD/CAD Reseller and advanced manufacturing training facility in Somers, Connecticut.

Duprey spent 23 years at MACDAC, being promoted from a Mastercam CAD/CAM software instructor to partner and director of operations and technology. When MACDAC was sold in 2021, Duprey worked as Product Director and in Enterprise Sales for TriMech.

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The Center for Manufacturing Technology is based in Woburn, ten miles northwest of Boston, in a 3,000 sq. ft. industrial facility consisting of classrooms and a hands-on manufacturing lab that gives students valuable experience with manual and CNC milling, Prototrak, manual and CNC turning, inspection, welding, sheet metal and grinding machines that are used throughout the machining industry. CMT also provides classes on machine shop best practices, NIM’s Credentialing, CNC programming and basic shop safety.

"If you are someone with a desire to enter the growing advanced manufacturing workforce, or an employer who needs to provide high-quality training to shop floor employees, please contact us today," says Duprey; "That's what we're here for." For more information, call 781.933.0049, email admissions@customtrainingcenter.com or visit www.CustomTrainingCenter.com.

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