📓 My CV

Chris' CV

This is my CV With the Personal information Redacted and more information given in the projects and Work Experience. There is only so much you can fit on 1/2 pages and this seemed like a logical way of expanding and letting you get to know me and my work more.
Please see the normal version of my CV for contact Details.

Personal Statement #

I am a hyper-generalized IT Technician / Systems Administrator with almost 8 years of experience, primarily within the education sector.
With being the primary point of contact for all Vaguely IT Related issues I have comprehension of a vast array of systems.
These include Windows Server and its associated services (WSUS,GPO,AD,DNS,DHCP), Hyper-V, ESXI, Backups (Hornet), CCTV (Hikvision), Access Control (Paxton),Papercut, Inventry, HPE, Aruba, Meraki.

With experience supporting a range of Windows, ChromeOS and Android devices on our domain and an even wider range of BYOD Devices from staff and students.
This can be anything from the latest Flagship phone to a 10yo Laptop running a random flavour of Linux.
Along with supporting Printers, IWBS/Projectors, Networking devices, 3D Printers, Laser cutters AV Systems and then whatever bits of hardware (i.e. visualisers) that the school may buy to support teaching and learning.

In addition to my professional experience above, I love to learn about technologies and systems.
As such I have my own ESXI Server, which runs some of my websites and game servers. I use Cloudflare Tunnels to protect my infrastructure and to tunnel into my servers and Cloudflare Pages for my documentation site (docs.m2s.uk) and My CV/Portfolio site (cv.m2s.uk)

Career Objective (5/10 Year Plan) #

My shorter term goal is to move back towards a more T2/3/SYS ADMIN Role.

My Mid term goal is to invest more time into Cloud and server style roles. It seems likely most business that have moved towards the cloud have started to come slightly back towards having some things on prem, and thus a hybrid server/cloud personal knowledge-base seems both a sensible path to take and interests me significantly.

Longer term I would like to be some sort of senior systems role / technical team lead, being the escalation point for a small team of techs.
Or putting it another way a IT Team manager role, but focusing on the technical side.

Interests and Hobbies #

  • Scouting
  • Learning New Tech
  • Food, Cooking and trying new things
  • Gaming
  • Taking Things Apart
  • Automation

Hyper-generalized #

I Understand that this is a bit of a strange thing to say & Requires some elaboration.
In an education setting there is normally a wide range of devices that depending on weather its a single school or a MAT, depends on how many techs there are on site and what support is available.
For instance in current role i am the only onsite tech for

  • 800~ Users
  • 400~ Windows Devices
  • 200~ Tablets
  • 100~ Chromebooks
  • 80~ WAPS
  • 70~ IWBs
  • an InVentry system
  • Server and Backups systems
  • Networking infrastructure of the little i am allowed access too
  • A Handful or printers an a PaperCut instance
  • AV Systems

and although not technically under my prevue, but still partially looked after by me

  • CCTV (Hikvision)
  • Access Control (Paxton)
  • Cashless Catering
  • MIS support to an MIS I have no access to

And although support is Available for head office you could effectively class it as a 3rd party support Company based on capacity and internal SLAs.
This in practice means I have to have a decent understanding of all the hardware and software I Look after, but without having the opportunity to specialize in any particular aspect of the role
Where many companies of 800 Users would have specific persons or teams to a role, Schools normally just the one person for everything, which is effectively my case.
And thus the need to hyper-generalize in the role

Additionally I Like to learn and ‘play’ which allows me to run my own web servers and things such as ESXI And Proxmox

Context: This note has come from a discussion on an tech-education forum, where other people have discussed where companies may not believe that people could be looking after such a wide array of things by themselves and that given most IT education roles are “IT Technician” Or something similar, it somewhat undersells the infrastructure management that some people have to do in the role.