On today’s episode of Utility Emergency Response, host Issac Allotre chats with Joe Blackman, founder of Vitendo Training Solutions, about creating custom video training videos for municipal and utility workforces.

Joe has a passion for video and big machines; after working in the utility industry for the past five years, when Joe noticed an ad disconnect between content creation and the utility workforce Vitendo Training Solutions was born.  

Also in this episode:

  • Why we need more training videos in the Utility industry
  • How Joe fell in love with the heavy equipment industry
  • The institutional knowledge that is not being passed down from the older workers in the Utility Industry
  • How training videos are saving time and money on training 

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About Isaac:

Chairman & Emergency Pipeline Advisor for Water, Wastewater, and Flood Management.

A UC Irvine graduate and beginning his career in safety and emergency supplies. Isaac was trained by David Jackson on all things related to PPS. With the help of his predecessor, he has updated PPS in regard to technology and processes. He believes that PPS has just started to make an impact.

PPS has usually been a west coast company, but now Isaac believes that PPS can help utilities across the globe with PPS many applications. Not only with pipelines but with emergency response awareness as a whole. He enjoys sports, whiskey, and food.


About Portable Pipeline Systems:

We value preparation, trust, and integrity with our clients. We provide systems and solutions, not price-only products. We encourage our clients to prepare in advance for the worst, be it an earthquake, floods, fires, or just an aging infrastructure.

At PPS we do not claim to have every solution for every disaster, we encourage clients to be open about their solutions and include all possible vendors. When in a disaster situation, a city, county, state, or government must consider all option

Custom Video Training For Your Municipal/Utility Workforce | feat. Joe Blackman