Being based in the US, we do most of our work in the States. However, all of us at The Trainer's Friend, Inc. have a love of international travel and a respect for many cultures.
We look for opportunities to work abroad and, over the years, we have been fortunate enough to work on the following projects...
- Publication in the first annual SouthEast Asia Regional Computer Conference (SEARCC), 1976
- Technical writing, S12 Announcement, ITT; Brussels, Belgium; Progressive Communications, 1979
- Course development, COBOL courses; London, England; Applied Learning, 1979
- Course materials sales (COBOL); Tokyo, Japan; Toppan-Moore, 1981
- Entry Programmer Training - PL/I; Limerick, Ireland; Sarsfield Systems, 1984, 1986
- DOS to MVS; Montreal, Canada; Steinbergs, 1984, 1985
- Programmer Skills Update; Winnipeg, Canada; Great West Life, 1985
- Introduction to VM; Toronto, Canada; Computer Associates, 1987
- MVS JCL & Utilities; Limerick, Ireland; Sarsfield Systems, 1990
- DB2 Performance and Tuning; Singapore; Development Bank of Singapore, 1992
- DB2 Data Base Administration; Singapore; Development Bank of Singapore, 1992
- Application Design Using LE Services; Victoria, BC, Canada; BC Systems; 1996
- Beyond COBOL II; Kuwait; IBM, 1997
- Application Design Using LE Services; Copenhagen, Denmark; IBM, 1999, 2000
- Interactive PL/I Debugging With Debug Tool; Copenhagen, Denmark; IBM, 1999, 2000
- Enterprise COBOL Update I, Denmark and Sweden; InCase, 2005
- DB2 V9 Transition Workshop; Denmark; InCase, 2008
- Using LE Services, OS/390 Assembler: Classic, Introduction to z/OS UNIX; ING, Netherlands; 2008
- DB2 V9 Differences; Finland; InCase, 2008
- TSO/ISPF, JCL, and z/OS UNIX; SAS Institute, Finland, 2008
As with our pricing for US work, our pricing for international work includes instructor expenses and tuitions for up to 12 students. Because expenses tend to be higher with international travel, our prices are generally somewhat higher for work outside the US. However, if we can book over 5 days in a single international trip, we will reduce our international rate on a sliding scale. Pricing can be complicated by unusual taxing structures and withholding laws, so we need to be sure and get all the details worked out in advance.
When English is not the first language of the students, courses may take a day or two longer. We are happy to work with interpreters, if that is the best approach.
We generally prefer you to print course materials for us (we'll ship print masters well in advance) to hold down costs, simplify customs processing, and to reflect varying paper sizes and corresponding notebook sizes found outside the US.
this page last updated: 27 January, 2009
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