Batky Howell

In the late 1980s Jeff Howell and I were both supporting the UNIX operating system for Hewlett-Packard.  Independently we both transferred to the Denver, Colorado office.  This is where we met and shared our ideas and passions of starting a company.  In 1991, we formed a partnership and taking a cue from Hewlett-Packard we named the company Batky-Howell. Batky-Howell’s initial focus was UNIX consulting but Jeff and I soon discovered the true need was for UNIX training. The transition from consulting to training began and we developed our first course, Fundamentals of UNIX.  This course was so successful it was quickly followed by Advanced UNIX Tools, Shell Programming and C Programming.  We continued to add courses and currently have more than 70 classes in topics from Crystal Reports to .NET .Our success comes from our extreme focus on customer needs and the practice of creating an encompassing, flexible training experience that goes beyond the cookie-cutter environment offered elsewhere.  Our classes focus on what can be immediately put to use when students get back to work.  Students are challenged to learn by doing with no coverage of fluff material.  We call it 100% hands-on training because students will work on examples as they are discussed and work on formal labs that reinforce what was covered during the lecture.