2009 – present University of Ulster Jordanstown www.ulster.ac.uk
IT professional
• IT admin for Faculty of Life and health sciences (Active directory, users and groups)
• Main duties involved setup of all workstations in faculty and provide helpdesk support (approx 400 desktops 100 laptops)
• Setup and admin for exchange email systems
• Inventory of all hardware and software
• system setup documentation
2008 – 2009 Niavac, Audio – visual, Belfast – www.niavac.com
Audio – Visual installation engineer
• Installation of AV equipment mainly in classroom environments around N.Ireland.
• Main duties involved installing projection products and smart board interactive products to assist and improve teaching of students
• Work involved installation and training of the use of hardware and software
• Collaboration with Northgate and C2K for successful implementation of interactive classrooms
• Setup of ‘Onelan’ boxes and IP-TV for distribution of TV and video through IP networks
2007- 2008 Ivex pharmaceuticals, Larne Co Antrim – www.ivex.co.uk
IT Administrator
• Administration of Win server 2003, Active Directory AD User privileges Group policies. Roaming home folders and Roaming O/S User /group settings, running of domain services DNS, DHCP. File and print sever, VB scripting, Setup of new emails account through MS exchange active roles
• Setup up all new systems than came on site (ghosted, added to domain and netinstalled various end user software)
• Provided technical support for our 65 workstations 12 laptops 8 smart phones and various networked and standalone printers
• Responsible for our current AIT2 tape backups and ghost image backups on our NAS devices ( Veritas backup exec v9,sony storstation 2)
• Inventory of all Hardware on site
• Report writing and system documentaion
Network specialist• (Enteresys switching, fibre, cate5/6 patched network system)
• Connection of our internal LAN to our ISP ‘Verison’ through our cisco 2800 series router then through to an x21 BT 2mb mpls fibre connection
• Recently been involved with the changeover from our old analogue meridian PBX system. To an Avaya VOIP POE telephony system
• Converted our existing non POE comms room to POE and patched all IP phones into the system. Restructured all patching to accommodate avaya IP phones
Other work experience including:
Bar management at Antrim boat club, this included helping to manage the bar; floats, stocks reports and yearly financial reports.
Helping to manage sponsorship deals to help promote the sailing club. This includes providing reports to our sponsor on events and also post details of their sponsorship through the club website. This helps to promote our sponsors interest and contribution greatly.