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Trainer biography - Nigel Platts
Co-Founder and Director of Armada

After graduating, Nigel worked in Personnel and Training before moving over to IT. Nigel has now worked in the IT industry for nearly 25 years, first for a large IT organisation where he gained extensive programming, technical authoring, training and project management experience, and then for Armada.

Nigel's main documentation interests are the financial aspects associated with it. This includes the indirect costs associated with producing poor documentation and the way good documentation is self funding.

Nigel delivers regular training courses in core technical writing skills and Plain English, as well as the applications used by technical authors, such as Adobe RoboHelp. Nigel has designed and written much of Armada's training courseware material.

“The purpose of training is to get results quickly. Delegates need to leave the course and the next day be making important contributions in their own environment, using the new skills they have learnt. Ultimately training is all about instant contribution and financial justification. ”

Nigel Platts

Past delegates' comments about Nigel's courses:

“Every aspect of the course was most helpful, especially the help and guidance of Nigel Platts. I have been in contact with him since and he has been of utmost help to me. ”

“A well planned and delivered course by a knowledgable and approachable trainer. The content was extremely useful and left me wanting to put what I had learned into practice straight away! Many thanks to Nigel for another first class training course.”

“The most helpful things about the course were the trainer's speed and awareness of trainees' progress and also his ability to add extra teaching components into the curriculum as necessary.”

“Nigel is a brilliant trainer, learnt so much, loved his enthusiasm.”

“I just wanted to say thank you for your guidance at the RoboHelp course. I found it really interesting, especially the section about planning.”

“Thank you for the training that you gave me. The thorough grounding will stand me in good stead.”