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david wallis

the start of dmw consultancy

David Wallis BSc MSc DIC is the director of DMW Consultancy Ltd. He devises and presents all the company's training courses and workshops.

His interest in PCs took off with the arrival in the UK of the IBM PC and seminal business software - including the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet - at the start of the 1980s.

At that time he was researching and writing for Which? magazine: he wrote all the early articles in Which? about home computers, PCs, peripherals and software.

David went freelance in 1986, and incorporated DMW Consultancy Ltd in 1988.

keeping up with trends

In the early days of the PC, David created and presented Lotus 1-2-3 training courses mounted by the then new breed of company supplying PCs to meet the explosion in demand from businesses for this new technology.

He took an interest in Microsoft Windows from its very first version and invested heavily in learning Excel as soon as it appeared, even training Microsoft personnel in its use at their Winnersh centre.

David followed Word from DOS to Windows. In the early 1990s he was an early adopter of Microsoft Access as a business solutions development tool.

training qualifications

David's work as a systems developer - in Access, Excel, Outlook and Word and for the WWW - provides the basis for the experience he brings to the courses he writes and presents.

Equally importantly, David believes, his journalistic and teaching experiences (he lectured in a college of technology) equip him to present technicalities concisely in ordinary language.

He considers that the use of software is a skill and therefore should be taught as such: it is all very well knowing what all the commands on the menus are meant to do, but what is important is being able to apply those that you need to the task in hand, quickly and correctly.

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