Dean joined us in September as our new Systems Engineer. In his role, Dean will be working on the service desk with fellow level 2 engineers to solve more complex client IT issues. Why not find out a little about him with our welcome questionnaire…
What is your professional background?
In my first job I started as the Office Junior making tea 3 times and for everyone and I was the eyes and ears for the external IT but after getting some experiences I did my Comptia A+ and eventually became the IT manager I then moved to an MSP to experience supporting multiple companies where I found my interest in automation. I then moved to an IT Systems Administrator role where I helped them move to Microsoft 365 and use the full suite of services.
If you could only keep three apps on your phone, which would you keep?
Instagram, Spotify, YouTube.
What is your biggest achievement to date – personal or professional?
Personal: keeping my little one alive
Professional: migrating 300+ users from a CPanel IMAP server to Microsoft 365
If you had an extra hour in the day, what would you do with it?
It’s lame but study.
Are you team iPhone or team Android?
Android all the way
Who is the most famous person you’ve met?
Never met anyone
If you could be any character in a video game, who would you be?
Goku because he loves to eat, and generally doesn’t take himself seriously.
If you could have invented or created anything, what would it be?
I would like to have created Raspberry Pi they are a great little invention that helps a lot of people tinker like me
If you could have any job in the world, what would it be?
I really want to be DevOps Engineer I love IY especially code, but I love servers to so Dev Ops is a perfect balance.
