Dave Murphy

Dave Murphy is founder and membership director of ITrain, the International Association of IT Trainers, Ltd.

ITrain is a membership organziation of IT trainers, training companies, and vendors of training-related products and services.

Mr. Murphy has taught thousands of students, novice-to-expert, to be more productive using personal computers. He has been certified by Novell, Inc. as a Certified NetWare® Instructor and by WordPerfect Corporation as a WordPerfect® Certified Resource. His training expertise includes WordPerfect®, Paradox®, dBASE®, Lotus 1-2-3®, Quattro Pro®, Windows®, Novell NetWare®, and over a hundred other popular software products. He is the author of over 125 computer training manuals.

In addition to presenting college and business training programs, Mr. Murphy is a sought-after public speaker for business development programs within both the academic and commercial forums, and he has standing columns in three business newspapers. Mr. Murphy holds academic degrees from the Defense Language Institute, United States Air Force, The University of Maryland, and The Johns Hopkins University.

Mr. Murphy is the Past President of the Rotary Club of Columbia-Patuxent, Inc. (District 7620), Past President of the Howard County Sexual Assault Center, Inc., and a graduate of Leadership Howard County, a leadership-development program for businesspeople. In addition to serving on multiple non-profit boards of directors, Mr. Murphy and his family are active in church and civic activities, including Worldwide Marriage Encounter.

Mr. Murphy lives with his wife, Margaret Mary, and their two daughters, Margaret Aline and Kathleen Shannon, in Ellicott City, Maryland USA.