CDR Technician Course Train-the-Trainer Certification
This very specialized training course is open only to those who have completed the CSI CDR Operator's Certification Course series since January 2006.
This CDR Technician Course Train-the-Trainer Certification course is an opportunity for qualified and experienced CDR Data Analysts to train others to the Technician Level. This course provides qualified individuals with an opportunity to teach the one day CDR Technician Course; the prerequisite to the CDR Data Analyst's Certification Course. It does not qualify one to teach the CDR Data Analyst's Certification Course.
Those who successfully complete this course will be provided with a training materials CD personalized for them to teach the Technician Level course from but which cannot be changed. This ensures that the Technician Level course material presented is the same each time it's offered, no matter who teaches it. Periodic updates, will be made available to registered trainers as the Trainer course is updated in the future. During this course, prospective trainers are walked through the course material, slide-by-slide and the concepts and purpose of each topic is explained in detail so the trainer can comfortably and professionally present that material on their own.
Technician level trainers will be expected to:
Agree to use only the course material provided as part of this training during their presentations of the Technician class
Agree to not redistribute any part of the provided course presentation material and not subcontract another instructor to present this material for you, the certified trainer
Agree to have on hand during the course presentation a sufficient number of Ford and GM airbag control modules - each with stored data - to facilitate in-class download exercises for class sizes up to 30 students, and own a Vetronix CDR System which you, the certified trainer, would use during your presentation of the Technician level class.
FAQs:
Q: Does completion of this course qualify me to teach the CDR Data Analyst's Certification course?
A: No, this is a program set up to develop Technician Level Instructors only. CSI will continue to offer the full CDR Data Analyst's Certification Course separately.
Q: If this course doesn't train me to teach the full CDR Data Analyst's Certification Course, what good is it to me?
A: Insurance companies, fleet administrators, police agencies and police academies - to name a few - have expressed an interest in offering some level of CDR training. The backgrounds, previous training and experience in various areas or levels of reconstruction and that within the CDR technology itself dictates that only those approved by the OEMs and Vetronix will be allowed to teach the full CDR Data Analyst's Certification Course. The opportunity still exists to develop a larger base of "data collectors" - CDR data collection Technicians - within those larger groups. For example, insurance companies who understand the complexity of this technology recognize that sending out field claims representatives and having them analyzing CDR data in the absence of some background in reconstruction is a bad idea. Police agencies often have Crash Investigation units organized into field investigators and then reconstructionists. The field investigators would be trained to collect data from people, cars and the road but the reconstructionists would then be qualified to complete the end analysis of all that information. The same concept applies here, so this training would qualify one to train data collectors (CDR Technicians) using the standardized training course.
Q: What is the "standardized training course"
A: Those who successfully complete the "CDR Technician Course Train-the-Trainer Certification" course will be given a CD with the course presentation, exams and handouts on them. Each CD will be personalized for the individual approved instructor.
Q: Will I be able to go back and "certify" others at my office or agency?
A: Yes, to be CDR Technicians but, no, not CDR Data Analysts. You will be instrumental in teaching others to ollect data that can be then relied on by CDR Analysts/reconstructionists together with situationally complete reconstructions of a given case.
Q: Can I change the course material to reflect my police agency, company or training institute?
A: No, you cannot change the course material you will use. However, the CD you will be given upon successful completion of the course will be personalized to reflect you as the approved instructor and may be customized at that time, before it is distributed, but not later.
Instructors: W. R. "Rusty" Haight, Brad Muir
Upcoming Courses:
2008 after the CDR User's Conference