Don DenTandt

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2626 7-1/4 Avenue
Chetek, WI 54728
Home: 715-924-2944
Mobile: 715-764-4514

SUMMARY

Technical trainer and instructional designer with embedded software experience. Expertise in software development, instructional design, team leadership and process management. Unique blend of technical and interpersonal abilities as well as micro and macro perspectives.

• Instructional systems design (ISD)
  
• Criterion reference instruction (CRI)
  
• Multiple analysis/design methodologies
  
• International training experience
  
• Multiple platform and tool computer expertise
  
• Customer attentiveness

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• Managed complete technical curriculum for PowerPC board products and related technologies, including outsourcing, providing complete product training without redundancy.
  
• Chaired 5 person training faculty team and championed use of Instructional Systems Design (ISD).
  
• Developed and implemented interdepartmental strategic planning initiative.
  
• Led cross functional team to rewrite divisional procedures addressing interdepartmental issues.
  

• Designed, developed, delivered, and maintained presentation and hands-on lab materials for instructing customer engineers in using hardware and software products in their designs.
  
• Developed and taught classes at the board support package (BSP), device driver, and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) register level using Adobe Framemaker and Microsoft PowerPoint.
  
• Delivered classroom lecture, live web, and customized onsite courses to customer engineers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, with class evaluations at “above average” or better.
  
• Developed on-line, self-study, and computer based training (CBT) tutorials to cover class prerequisite materials, saving 10% classroom time.
  
• Worked with web designers to create live web-based and CD-ROM presentations.
  

• Provided pre- and post-sales customer support through training of Sales staff and customers, providing materials for inclusion in technical manuals, and email and telephone response to customer technical inquiries.
  
• Expertise in VMEbus, PCI architecture, USB, and CompactPCI.
  
• Served as subject matter expert (SME) for students, other trainers, and technical writers in PCI, CompactPCI, VMEbus, and PowerPC based products.
  

• Performed analysis, design and development of embedded real-time software using Ada, C, and Assembly for cryptographic key handling systems and ground-based avionics support systems.
  
• Designed, coded and tested communications security and control systems software, delivering fully functional products on schedule.
  
• Wrote decryption software for Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers.
  
• Directed 7 engineer team in design and development of $3M software effort providing electronic rekeying of cryptographic equipment.
  

• Led teams to define processes for review and approval of software, process monitoring, standards review and maintenance.
  
• Provided mentoring to software development projects.
  
• Provided Software Quality Assurance and customer liaison for Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 5, $1M+ projects, ensuring process conformance and requirements fulfillment.
  

• Chairman of Software Configuration Management Working Group
  
• Task Leader in charge of seven software engineers.
  
• Led project in the use of software development tools in a heterogeneous networked environment.
  
• Member of Motorola Object Oriented Design (MOOD) Team.
  

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

BS Electrical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
How to Plan, Develop, and Evaluate Training, Clark Training and Consulting
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey Seminar
Criterion-Referenced Instruction, The Center for Effective Performance, Inc.
Fundamentals of Telecommunications, Advanced Information Technologies
PowerPC Processors, Motorola Technical Training
HTML Document Creation, Motorola University
Internetworking, WestNet Learning Technologies
PCI System Architecture, and USB System Architecture, Mindshare, Inc.
Integrating Training and Documentation, Comtech Services. Inc.

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

IEEE Computer Society and Professional Communication Society
Member Chetek, WI Chamber of Commerce
Member Chetek Resort Owner’s Association
Past President and board member, Mobile Meals of LaCrosse, WI

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