A sustained Microsoft Smart Office program at Ferrero — the company behind Nutella, Kinder, and Ferrero Rocher — through most of 2019. Multiple training threads across a Canadian operation that runs on tight timelines.
Ferrero brought the Smart Office training back in February 2020, a few weeks before the pandemic changed the shape of every future engagement. Three threads of work, then the engagement closed out for the year.
The M.L. Campbell teaching engagement began in 2020 and continues as of 2026 — six years across four delivery modes: classroom instruction, practical labs, online modules, and customer-site sessions. The LMS architecture built today is this same curriculum encoded for scale.
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Excel 401 is for analysts moving into BI work. Power Query, ETL pipelines, and dashboards built so the next refresh takes a click, not a morning.
Excel 302 is for staff who build forecasts and budgets. What-if scenarios, Goal Seek, Solver, and the auditing to trust the numbers you ship.
Excel 301 is for analysts and team leads with bigger lists. Tables, lookups, PivotTables, slicers — turning rows of data into real answers.
Excel 201 is for staff past the basics who need cleaner workbooks, IF/IFS logic, charts that read at a glance, and a first taste of macros.
Excel 101 is a hands-on starter course for staff who use Excel a few times a week. Real workbooks, plain language, no guessing.
Two days at Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener — teaching Microsoft Office to a class inside the federal corrections system. The work mattered more than most one-day training engagements do.
Three and a half years as a Training Specialist at the Center for Arts and Technology in Fredericton — Photoshop, Video Production, Marketing, Career Management, and Web Technology on a rotating six-month cycle. The current training practice grew out of those years more than any other single source.