David F. Bateman

David J. Bateman is a certified Cisco Systems instructor and the director of curriculum development for Skyline-ATS. He has more than 20 years of internetworking experience. For more than 10 years, David was a senior LAN/WAN engineer, working on small, medium, and large networks. Later in his career, he took on the responsibility of running the business operations of a technical services company, while maintaining his existing client base. David has always enjoyed sharing his knowledge, and in 1999, he added to his list of accomplishments by becoming a technical seminar leader. After many successful seminars, he decided to become a full-time Cisco instructor for Skyline Advanced Technology Services. He has been teaching and implementing Cisco voice technologies since 2000. David’s years of real-world technical and business knowledge allow him to bring a unique perspective to the classroom, where he not only delivers critical technical knowledge but can also explain how technologies can be used to address various business issues.