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Thanks :) Looks like a great site, plenty of good resources - actually surprised I've not come across it before!

 

It’s a life-saver for many! What role do you have?

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I'm a software developer, specialise in Intranets but do all sorts of web applications. Started out in life as an IT Technician for a FE college then moved onto infrastructure. I ended up doing software development because I worked for organisations who didn't have the budget to buy software or wouldn't spend any money.
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Hi I'm Brian and I'm an IT Technician for a company which supplies IT support to schools over a vast area. I work in one High School full time with a network manager above me
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Hi All,

 

I'm Martin. I work at leeds Beckett University as an IT Development Specialist (fancy job title, but basically i'm one of our SCCM admins - I mainly deal with PC imaging, software packaging and deployment with some AD and group policy management etc. thrown in).

 

I've been browsing these forums for a little while, finally registered now.

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Hello! My name is CastiiPaii. I am a trainee Music teacher (please don't hate me! ;-;) I'm studying music for a degree and is working towards a career in teaching. @Mewdewgooboofoo is making sure that I'm not going to be an incompatent teacher! :)

 

GET THE TEACHER!!!

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kidding of course, welcome along Cas!

 

Does mean that @localzuk needs to move you on Discord now though...

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I'm Dave, now in business, ex Head of Department and still pop in occasionally to help my school out as a 'techie' as and when they get overloaded.

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I am a foundation governor at Both a Senior school and primary school. GDPR is the latest headache and hopefully I will find help and suggestions here, when needed.
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Saying hello.. introduction will be a little long...

 

 

Day job is I have a company that helps big firms with architecting end user computing - office 365, windows, email, that sort of thing.

 

I am a parent with a son at a small school.. which we liked a lot, but I could see the IT was lacking. So I offered the head / board a reasonably big donation with the condition I did it right, and flexed my contacts to get goodies for free/ cheap.

 

End result is documented here

 

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/uktechnet/2016/06/13/modernising-infrastructure-at-a-village-primary-school/

 

I had no desire to commercially do their IT service because, at the risk of humblebragging they couldn’t afford my usual rates. But the head was very persuasive so I drew up a very fair T&M contract. To date I’ve only billed materials on the privisio they are happy to work with my availability, and I’ve trained a couple of staff in basic admin, plus have overkill levels of redundancy.

 

So sticking around here at first was just learning the environment of schools ICT as it is different from big corps and they don’t have to deal with the horror of SIMs!

 

Then, putting on another hat I became a governor so directly interested in strategy and finance, and of course things like MAT are on the radar.

 

So looking to contribute a bit and learn ‘how others do it’

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Welcome aboard! Great blog and hopefully an inspiration to others. I'm really impressed that you had a section on 'Documentation and guidance' - shows you to be a true professional.

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