David Farbey has been active in technical communication since 1994 and his current interests include Content Strategy and Information Design. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC), and a Member of the British Computer Society.
David is frequently mentioned on lists of noteworthy techcomm bloggers, for example the January 2012 Top 10 TechComm Influencers list from MindTouch. He is a regular speaker at professional technical communication conferences, and has presented at events in the UK, Europe, and the USA, most recently at Congility in May 2011 and at Technical Communication UK in September 2011. David has now been named as Conference Chair for Technical Communication UK 2012.
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 also taught courses on professional writing at Coventry University. He is currently the ISTC Council lead member for Professional Development and Recognition, with responsibility for the Institute’s educational policy.
During his wide-ranging technical communication 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 communication team at Medidata Solutions Inc., a developer of specialist software systems to support clinical research in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.
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