After a private purchase Bytes IT Solutions became Greenstone Technology Ltd (Microsoft Gold Partner). My day to day roles now include Build Architect for all software developments, VMware administrator for a number of production and development Farms, Exchange Administrator, Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy Admin, SQL 2000 & 2005 Admin, IIS and SharePoint management, 3rd Line support for a number of external companies and technical consultant for Microsoft and VMware, ISA Server, Cisco Routers and Switches, Gnat Firewalls.

This company provides IT services and support. My initial responsibility was to manage the internal IT systems and upgrade it to the current industry standard levels. While carrying out this work it was recognised that I could provide this management and support to external companies, thereby providing extra income to the company as well as personally gaining and enhancing my skill set. The development of virtualisation meant that I had to train and certify in the new techniques and systems which many of our companies required. These skills were put to good use when a large organisation required a complete upgrade to its systems using both virtual storage and resources. Having completed these tasks I feel that I need to improve on my technical know how and experience in the ever growing greener world of virtualisation.

I was initially assigned to a large financial company for a small period of time to look into performance problems with a newly acquired database. After completing that task and a few other performance related problem, I was asked to continue working and provided management and support of the entire Pension Review Division. This meant providing both desktop and server support for over 200 users. Throughout the busy times I was provided with extra resources to manage and off load extra work. This gave me experience in personnel management. At the end of the project I had to decommission the systems and move the data into other newly created systems. This also meant I had to audit the work and account for the in the systems.

Supported the servers, desktops, office communications and network infrasture of a banks service centres and branches across SE England.

Completed a 3 year electronics apprenticeship. Wrote software for systems such as BT Speaking Clock and 151 Call Monitoring systems.

Provided software tools for the management of BT’s System X exchanges.

Created a Computer system to monitor call performance and response times in BT’s fault reporting call centres.