Nick Bland
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Additionally add in some more work experience, adjust the skills section, and update the contents to better reflect me now.
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177 lines
6.8 KiB
Svelte
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<h3 class="p-5 text-4xl text-center">Work Experience</h3>
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<time class="font-mono" datetime="2024-11">Nov 2024 - Present</time>
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<div class="text-xl">Villanova College</div>
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<div class="text-sm pb-2">Casual Relief + Placement</div>
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Casual Relief:
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<li>Casual relief in the IT department while continuing with uni</li>
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</ul>
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Placement:
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<li>Placement project was beginning the migration process from SCCM to Intune</li>
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<li>
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Required careful documentation of current systems and assessing the feasability
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of moving to an Intune/Autopilot environment.
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</li>
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Worked closely with different members of the department to gain access and
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assessing what improvements could be made for the new system.
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</ul>
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Key Experiences and Takeaways:
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<ul class="list-disc list-inside mt-2">
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<li>
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Gained more experience in the Azure ecosystem, exposing me to AzureAD (Entra)
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and Intune.
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Important lessons in taking careful note of what is currently in place, how it
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works, and how to migrate functionality to new platforms.
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Gained further understanding on the importance of documentation, and how it can
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be used by future staff members to understand the new environment.
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Important experience gained in doing in-place migrations without affecting the
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end-user experience and functionality of current systems.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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>
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<time class="font-mono" datetime="2022-10">Oct 2022 - Feb 2023</time>
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<div class="text-xl">St Pauls School</div>
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<div class="text-sm pb-2">System Administrator</div>
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System Administrator Role:
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Became more experienced in scripting languages, and streamlining legacy scripts
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in use.
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</li>
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Continually worked on improving my knowledge in Python, Powershell, and
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Bashscript for automation tasks, and small projects.
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Assisted in streamlining SDS (Student Data Sync service) scripts, including
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importing new users into TASS and AD.
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</ul>
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Key Experiences and Takeaways:
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<li>There is always something to be improved upon if you look hard enough.</li>
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Gained significant experience in deploying Autotune and Intune, as well as how
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AzureAD works under the hood.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<time class="font-mono" datetime="2020-8">Aug 2020 - Oct 2022</time>
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<div class="text-xl">St Pauls School</div>
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<div class="text-sm pb-2">Information Technology Officer</div>
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Help Desk Role:
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Assisted students and teachers with level 1 and 2 issues, and logged warranty
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jobs. Continued triaging until issue was resolved.
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Gained experience in cloud-based solutions in the enterprise environment, namely
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AWS. I was able to apply some of the teaching for my homelab setup.
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Gained more experience in Azure ecosystem, SCCM deployment, and networking.
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</li>
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</ul>
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Key Experiences and Takeaways:
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<li>Working in a larger group to cover more ground</li>
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The importance of relationships with end-users and suppliers to get issues
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sorted in a timely manner.
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Much more experience in networking (both Cisco and Unifi), and configuration in
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an enterprise environment.
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</ul>
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</li>
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<time class="font-mono" datetime="2020-3">Mar 2020 - Jul 2020</time>
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<div class="text-xl">Villanova College</div>
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<div class="text-sm">Information Technology Officer</div>
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Help Desk Role:
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<li>Performed repairs and troubleshooting for both students and teachers.</li>
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Logged warranty claims with suppliers and triaged with parents and students
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during this process.
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Collaborated with IT team on installing and configuring equipment inside a new
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building.
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Assisted contractors with installation of Salto Systems and improved on existing
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configuration throughout school.
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</ul>
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<div class="divider my-1"></div>
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Key Experiences and Takeaways:
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<li>Became more comfortable and confident in an end-user facing role.</li>
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Experience in a <i>professional</i> team environment, learning of the strengths and
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weaknesses that come with it.
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Gained first-hand experience using ticketing software (LanSweeper), and using it
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as a powerful tool for organisation.
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</ul>
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</div>
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</li>
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