About CeleriTrain

Skip is committed to designing and delivering technical training in the shortest time and at the lowest cost, while delivering concrete pre-determined results. He also enjoys passing these practices on to other technical trainers.

His career began with U.S. Navy schools, which prepared him for his career in electronics and technical training. Toward the end of his eight year enlistment he served as a Navy Instructor.

After the Navy, he installed and serviced linear accelerators for radiation therapy and diagnostic ultrasound imaging equipment for Varian Associates (currently Varian Medical Systems).

Subsequent to that, he served as a field service trainer for Varian Medical Systems, Philips Medical Systems, and Toshiba America Medical Systems. When the sales of high end medical equipment went into a downturn, in late 1994, he was brought into the semiconductor equipment business, where he served as a one person training department for the next fourteen years. That company was Unit Instruments, which became Celerity Inc., a provider of chemical gas flow control equipment for semiconductor manufacturers.

Next, he was the Technician Trainer and Technician Hiring Manager for Cobham Defense and Space, San Diego, CA. When the defense budget was delayed in 2011, he was brought into the shipboard satellite antenna service business as the Product Training manager at Cobham SATCOM (Sea Tel Inc.).

At Sea Tel, in Northern California, he continues to innovate, refine, and improve the efficacy of technical training. His most recent pursuit is the leveraging of interactive and simulation enhanced training using tablet PCs for theoretical, as well as practical skills training. His custom designed self-paced tutorials are built using pure HTML, enhanced with some JavaScript and GIF animation.
(Yes, that's at zero cost.)

As always, the intent is to further drive down the cost and duration of technical training, while improving its outcomes.

He has demonstrated the ability to cut training course length from 30% to 50%, using Criterion Referenced Instruction techniques, and considers CRI to be the most effective and cost effective approach to technical training development. He believes that CRI can greatly boost the effectiveness of any training program. CRI can be explored further at www.cepworldwide.com .

Skip is able to generate interactive tutorials that simulate any form of software. These tutorials give the learner absolute control over pace and sequence while providing actual hands on practice in using that software. This tutorial method has already been proven, as applied to non-software skills training.