Training Support

Technical training and professional development programs

Broad Training Experience

We have broad experience developing and delivering technical training and professional development programs, as well as training trainers in both content and delivery. We believe learning occurs when the learner is ready. To that end, we work to find the “What’s In It For Me” message to keep learners engaged. We identify the training exercise or activity first, whether we are training a skill, a concept or an attitude and have a variety of techniques to ensure engagement regardless of training format.

Solution Design

We have over 20 years of experience designing courses and curricula as well as dreaming up unique solutions to meet client needs with respect to audience, geographies, training objectives, budget, and schedule.

Content

Technical Training topics include:

  • Systems Safety
  • Programming
  • Operating Systems
  • Server Software

Organizational Development topics:

  • New Hire Orientation
  • Performance Management
  • Working on Teams
  • Development Methodologies

Formats

  • Instructor-led courses
  • Interactive self-paced demos
  • Self-paced learning guides
  • Video courses
  • Soft-skills exercise
  • blending all of the above!

Target Audiences

  • DoD engineers
  • IT professionals
  • Developers
  • Technical trainers
  • New-to-computer users
  • College students

Our experience with corporate sales and marketing audiences also has applicability to supporting government programs.

Interviewing

Our DoD and industry experience, technical backgrounds, and years of working with a global audience allow us to converse with almost anyone. We connect easily with people of all backgrounds. We love helping people tell their story. We’re also able to get to the “nut” quickly.

Project Management

Experience managing instructional projects and teams from Vision/Scope phase through publication, training the trainers, and maintenance.

Janet Beatty – Training Experience

Janet Beatty heads our training efforts. She has breadth and depth experience working for Intel and Microsoft as well as working as an independent consultant since 2009.

Janet is as adept at creating simple narrated, interactive tool demos as she is at developing five day classroom courses with individual and group exercises. She has led scores of course development projects, been responsible for training thousands of technical trainers, and managed the Microsoft New Hire curricula for over 400 different job titles.

As a consultant she has delivered content to support corporate-wide behavior changes for thousands of employees as well as closely targeted interactive demos for specific technical roles.

Sean Beatty – Training Experience

Sean Beatty has shared his expertise in Software Engineering and Systems Safety by presenting well-received classes in:

  • Structured Analysis / Structured Design (SA / SD)
  • Embedded Systems Programming
  • Finding Software Defects that Testing and Inspection Miss

He developed a custom training program for NSWC Crane titled Software Safety Analysis for Small Embedded Systems. He has presented Improving Software Safety – Finding the Defects that Inspection and Testing Miss frequently at the International Systems Safety Conference. See Presentations.