<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/newsroom/student-stories-quinyardo-mcclain.cfm" dsn="blogs"><featured>true</featured><pubDate>12/15/2025</pubDate><title>Next career starts here for retired Army sergeant</title><description>Quinyardo McClain had been working as a security director when he decided to retire from that line of work. Retirement didn’t have a hold on him, so he looked to a local university to start building a new career and found himself pursuing a B.S. in Information Systems and Technology Management at The University of Baltimore.</description><author>Student Stories</author><image><img src="https://www.ubalt.edu/about/newsroom/assets/images/quinyardo-mcclain-feature.jpg" alt="Quinyardo McClain poses in the UBalt library."/></image><image-cap/><quote>I have professors with multiple certifications that like to share their knowledge with us, to guide us, and ... teaching through a management style that can contribute to whatever organization you’re going to.</quote><quote-name>Quinyardo McClain</quote-name><quote-info>B.S. in Information Systems and Technology Management</quote-info><tags><tag>Merrick School of Business</tag><tag>Student Stories</tag><tag>Veteran and Military</tag><tag>transfer</tag></tags></item>