This is a contract position for four months starting in May 2023. We are looking for an experienced Digital Learning Developer who will be responsible for working closely with our Digital Learning Manager to deliver the build of a future online course for Control-F.

About You

You’ll be an experienced Digital Learning Developer with demonstrable experience and a good level of competency in using Articulate 360, in particular Articulate Storyline.

In addition, you’ll need demonstrable experience of Vyond as well as an understanding of various e-learning course formats, SCORM, xAPI and cmi5.

If you have design experience and are able to contribute to the design and development of content, that would be extremely useful but not essential.

You’ll be creative and able to work with a forward-thinking mindset. It’s not enough that something you build works for right now – we want to make sure it’s future-proofed (insofar as is possible).

We’re looking for someone self-motivated, with good project management skills and the ability to work to agreed timescales. Ideally, you’ll have experience of working remotely although depending on location, there is the possibility of you spending some time in our offices and/or meeting up with the Digital Learning Manager to discuss progress against agreed objectives.

Overall, you’ll have a high degree of comfort working in a collaborative and rapidly changing environment.

What’s involved

You’ll take a combination of storyboard designs and textual specifications for course materials and transfer them into Articulate Storyline to develop the interactive course content.

You’ll also use animation software tools like Vyond to generate media-related content for use throughout the course. We see this as being a significant part of the project, where an understanding of blending both Vyond and Storyline content would be advantageous.

You’ll be given brand guidelines and direction on art style and we’d like you to be able to add some graphic design elements to the material, with some opportunities and freedom for creative suggestions and solutions.

It’s important to know that while we have our own inhouse style that we’ll expect you to work to, you’ll need to be comfortable working within guidelines that are currently evolving and being updated to meet our latest vision.

The challenges

If you’re not used to working with a client remotely, we realise that could present a challenge initially and we’ll do what we can to make sure that the working relationship goes smoothly.

We’ve already highlighted that our inhouse style is undergoing a review and update, so that will be part of the challenge for you when you work with us.

About Us

Control-F is a digital forensics company offering scheduled and on-site training courses to digital forensic examiners, primarily in law enforcement. We are a small business with a big reputation and our team are driven and motivated to achieve and maintain our high standards.

The future

There is a possibility of a digital learning role on an employed basis and we would be delighted to discuss this future role with you if it was of interest.

If you’re passionate about digital forensics and want to educate and inspire others, maybe you’re the person we’re looking for….

Control-F is now looking for an office-based Course Manager to join our small but growing team.  We need someone to take responsibility for creating, delivering and maintaining training course content, ensuring that both materials and delivery remain current, engaging and accurate.

The role

You’ll be project managing course development activities across the company’s training portfolio, encompassing the following the design and delivery of new training courses; authoring, updating and maintaining existing training course materials and delivering training course content to customers at various locations, including our classroom at Wyboston Lakes.

 

About you

You’ll have previous hands-on experience as a digital forensics practitioner using MSAB XRY and Cellebrite UFED and will have recognised training courses under your belt (you might have a digital forensics degree, but this isn’t essential). You’ll also have excellent written English and be a clear and confident verbal communicator. Not only that, you’ll be comfortable managing multiple ongoing work activities to ensure that deadlines are met.

If you have experience of the following, they would be a huge advantage:

• Oxygen Detective
• FTK Imager and other computer acquisition tools
• SQL and SQLite databases
• Delivering digital forensics training
• Creating and editing professional PowerPoint, Word, Publisher and Google documents
• Programming experience in Python, C/C++ or Java
• Reverse engineering

As a person, you’ll be comfortable in the classroom spotlight and good at building rapport with others. You’ll be working within a small team of people who pay attention to the detail and have a “can do” customer-focused attitude.

About us

We’re a digital forensics company offering scheduled and on-site training courses to digital forensic examiners, primarily in law enforcement. We’re based just 30 minutes drive from Cambridge, the heart of “Silicon Fen”.

What we’re offering

In return, our Course Manager will have a competitive salary, performance-based annual review, defined contribution pension scheme, 22 days a year annual leave (plus 8 Bank Holidays), the ability to work flexitime, a health cash plan and paid time off for volunteering.

Interested?

We are a small business with a big reputation in our field and we’d love to welcome you to join us.  You can download the job description read more about the courses we’re currently offering or contact us for more details and an ‘off the record’ chat about the role.

For many years Control-F has produced and shared many Python scripts, making them available to delegates attending our training courses.  These scripts cover a multitude of functions, such as assisting with repetitive forensic tasks, or helping to report artefacts which might be missed by commercial forensic tools. We are proud to now be going one-step further in announcing our new, free, open-source tool, “mift”.

 

“mift” is an open-source software tool designed to assist digital forensic examiners in understanding the context of media files on iOS and Android devices. mift can help explain:

• How a media file within the DCIM/100APPLE folder on an iOS device came to be there (taken by the device camera, created via an app, sent vs. received etc.)
• Whether an image file has been shared via the cloud – and if it has, which device it was shared from
• Which primary image a recovered thumbnail image relates to
• Which website a user was visiting when a screenshot was taken
• And more!

Although the image in the screenshot below is located alongside camera photos in the folder DCIM/100APPLE, the “Application_Package” and “Original_Filename” metadata confirm that the image was created by the camera within the messaging app Telegram.

mift can highlight valuable data which may not be fully decoded and presented by commercial forensic tools. It has already been used by customers to support evidential investigations, and the feedback has been extremely positive. You can get a flavour of its capabilities from an introductory guide available here.

mift is an open-source tool – which means that it is not only free, it’s inner workings are open to scrutiny and review. It’s just one of a series of tools we’re making available via our GitHub repository.

 

Take a look and get in touch. We’d love to hear your feedback!