My name is David Batty, I am a freelance software developer, qualified teacher, course designer, trainer and digital content developer. I have been working full time with computers for 42 years… and am still loving it.
As well as being a very successful software developer I have been delivering computer training in schools, colleges and businesses for 34 years. I deliver courses for CodeCollege.co.uk, I also deliver training for the AQA, OCR, DVLA and other organisations as required.
My weekly activities may include some combinations of the following: Programming, delivering computer training, creating online courses, games design, writing data processing programs, working in Second Life virtual world, video production and editing, writing Amazon Alexa applications, technical reviewing of computer books, or some other computer related activities.
In 2018 I was a JCQ / OCR Computer Science Inspector, visiting schools to inspect exam work and procedures in computer science departments. Currently I am a Computer Science Ambassador for OCR, delivering teacher CPD on the new changes to computer science content & procedures, and delivering webinars for teachers who are new to J277 Computer Science, or who are transitioning from J276.
I am a fully licenced Amateur Radio operator with an Advanced Licence and 45 years of radio use behind me. I am also a registered Assessor for the Radio Society of Great Britain.
Contact me if you have a requirement for staff training or software development, My most popular course is a two day introduction to the Python programming language, I have trained over 10,000 people in the use of Python. Maybe you have a data processing problem and need someone to write software to convert, clean or sanitise your data. I write software and use a variety of tools and techniques to convert data from one format to another.
You can find my contact details on here if you want to chat about your requirements.
David