David Farbey is a technical communications and information design professional and has been active in this field since 1994. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, and a Member of the British Computer Society. He has presented at professional technical communications conferences in the UK, Europe, and the USA.

David joined the teaching staff of the distance-learning MA Professional Communication programme at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) in 2005 after completing his MA in Technical Communication in 2004. In addition to his part-time work for SHU, David has taught courses on professional writing at Coventry University, and is also a tutor for the ISTC’s Open Learning course in technical communication.

During his wide-ranging technical communications career, David has worked both as an independent consultant and contractor and as a staff member and manager. He has written user guides, self-study tutorials, online help systems, reference manuals, policy and procedure guides, and many other types of business documents. His work covers a wide range of business activities including infrastructure projects, e-learning systems, financial applications, image recognition and processing, enterprise resource planning, and business processes and procedures, as well as copywriting and marketing writing projects. He has worked in a variety of software development environments, and has designed and managed research projects in both the academic and the public sector fields. In October 2009 David joined the technical communications team at Medidata Solutions Inc., a developer of specialist software systems to support clinical research in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.