ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Darin Hartley, MEd
Director of Client Development (Microsoft Client Manager) for Intrepid Learning Solutions, Inc.
Darin Hartley has been working in the training industry for the past 20 years and has undergraduate and graduate degrees in corporate training and training management. He currently is the director of client development at Intrepid and the Microsoft Client Manager.
Hartley was the director of the E-Learning Courseware Certification (ECC) program for the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD). He managed various teams at Dell Learning during his five years at Dell Computer Corporation. Hartley has presented previously at ISPI International, ASTD International, the ASTD Technical Skills Training Conference, and many others on a variety of topics. He has keynoted for national and international learning and training conferences for a variety of organizations.
He has written articles for T+D, Technical & Skills Training, and WorkForce magazines. Darin wrote Job Analysis at the Speed of Reality, for HRD Press, in 1999 and On-Demand Learning: Training in the New Millennium in 2000. He also wrote Selling E-Learning in 2001. In 2003, he had a chapter published in The AMA E-Learning Handbook. Hartley was on the editorial board of T+D magazine from 2000 to 2006.
Prior to Dell, Hartley worked for Lockheed Martin, EG&G, General Physics Corporation, and the U.S. Navy as a nuclear power plant operator (eight years). Hartley lives in Poulsbo, Washington, with his family.
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