Derrin also leads The Development Manager Ltd:
http://tdm.info
Practical support for training providers:
- e-Learning Design, Moodle Administration and Staff Training and Support
- Free "Libre" Open Source Software Installation, Hosting, Administration and Staff Training
- Tender Writing and Bid Team Capacity Building
- Staff Training and Development
- Knowledge Management
- ESOL Trainer Training for Practical, WBL Contexts
- Spanish Language Teaching and Translation
Some examples (the list is endless!) of the FLOSS Applications Derrin can help you to run:
Virtual Learning Environments
Content Management Systems
Blogs
Wikis
Internet Telephony (VOIP)
Customer Relationship Management
Enterprise Content Management
e-Commerce
Somebody to manage your staff, web and business development...
Who is The Development Manager?
Derrin Kent has the combination of skills required to help YOUR organisation.
- Face-to-face corporate trainer:
Software, Management, Train-the-Trainer & Soft Skills - Qualified, distance e-learning facilitator
- Linux-Certified Professional (LPIC)
& Open Source Software Supporter - Web designer
- IT Systems Administrator
(incl. Moodle, Joomla, Mahara, etc.) - Highly successful bidwriter
- Project designer and manager
- Knowledge Manager
- Trainer trainer and developer
- Manager & team leader
- ES(O)L & adult literacy Teacher
- ES(O)L Teacher Trainer (CELTA/DELTA)
- Fluent (native-like) Spanish language speaker
Derrin has been working in the dual fields of Business Management and Education, both in the UK and in various overseas locations, since graduating with a Dip.H.E. in Education Studies from the University of Worcester in 1988. He has been training staff, at all levels from Director to groundsman, in the corporate sector since 1992. Derrin gained a Masters level teaching qualification (Cambridge DTEFLA) in 1995. When not working as a trainer, trainer developer or trainer trainer himself, Derrin has also spent eight years working in top-level leadership and management roles within four very different educational institutions.
Derrin is a Linux-Certified Professional (LPIC) and is passionate about the potential for Open Source Software and Open Data Standards to support both e-Learning and e-Business development. Derrin designed his first website in 1999 and has developed a firm commitment to the principles behind free software. He has also developed a practical awareness of how to implement the range of free software available to improve performance in all aspects of e-Business and e-Learning.
Derrin lives in a bilingual Spanish/English household in rural Worcestershire with his beautiful Peruvian wife, Elizabeth, and their children Salvador (three and a half) and Micaela (two).
Via blended staff training / free software interventions, Derrin can help organisations to:
- cut costs and improve the bottom line
- increase revenue and widen revenue streams
- meet targets and directly tie-in your practical organisational development to your Business Plan/3YDP/QiP
- win your tenders for new business (LSC, ESF, LearnDirect, ALP-LIG, JCP, etc.)
- improve learning delivery quality and standards
- actively engage with employers
- dramatically cut assessor and staff travel expenses
- implement a working e-learning programme
- implement a free e-portfolio
- deliver more effecive skills for life training
- make budget savings on staff development while improving learning quality and staff satisfaction
- ...and more. Please get in touch to discuss the possibilities.
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