Derrin Kent ( Links: BLOG / BUSINESS )

Manager / Trainer / Linguist / Geek

Derrin Kent is based in Worcestershire, UK, but can travel.

Derrin also leads The Development Manager Ltd:
http://tdm.info

Derrin is willing and able to develop your knowledge to the point where you no longer need to pay him for his services.

He is also willing to make a long-term commitment, as an outsourced consultant, to support you to lead the development of the IT infrastructure of your own organisation:

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists.
Not so good when people obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they despise him.
But of a good leader who talks little,
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
They will say "We did it ourselves."
Lao Tse

The Development Manager, Derrin Kent, is dedicated to supporting Work-Based Learning providers in the UK to improve their performance standards and their profit margins through exploiting the benefits of Free "Libre" Open Source Software.

How can The Development Manager help WBL training providers?

...by offering a pick and mix of practical services which WBL providers really need!

Derrin offers practical support for training providers:

Derrin offers a wide, combinable range of one-day intensive training programmes in the following categories:

Some examples of the FLOSS Applications Derrin can help you to run:

Virtual Learning Environments

Content Management Systems

Internet Telephony (VOIP)

Trixbox

Customer Relationship Management

SugarCRM

Enterprise Content Management

Alfresco

e-Commerce

OSCommerce

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The Open Source Initiative (OSI).
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