North Georgia Tech Hires New Full-time Instructors

North Georgia Technical College announces several new full-time faculty members for the fall semester of 2019.

Deanna DeFoor is an instructor of nursing and recently was employed as a registered nurse at Stephens County Hospital in Toccoa.

DeFoor has more than 40 years of experience as a registered nurse and received a master of science degree specializing in nursing in adult gerontology primary care nurse practitioner from the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

Kelly Rhoades has moved from part-time adjunct biology/general education instructor to full-time.

Rhoades has previously worked for the Georgia Cyber Academy, as well as school systems for Habersham, Lumpkin, White and Hall Counties.

Haley Adams also moved from a part-time instructor at North Georgia Tech to full-time and is a clinical laboratory technology instructor.

Jack Smith is now a full-time math instructor at North Georgia Tech’s Blairsville campus where he was previously a part-time adjunct math instructor there.

Michelle Oglesby is an English instructor and was previously an English Language Arts teacher at Franklin County Middle School as well as an instructor for the Georgia Cyber Academy and an adjunct English instructor at NGTC.

Bryan Hartzog, from Toccoa, is a heating, ventilation and air conditioning instructor.

Hartzog previously was a maintenance mechanic with the Northeast Georgia Housing Authority.

He received his HVACR diploma as well as a commercial truck driving diploma from NGTC.

Other new instructors include, Owen Simpson, from Griffin, Ga., who is now an engineering instructor at North Georgia Tech, and Daniel Card, who is a commercial truck driving instructor from Macon, Ga.

Card previously worked for Maverick Transportation as a trainer and a long haul flatbed driver for the Eastern and Mid-West regions of the United States.