Upgraded the site from an unsupported Joomla version to the latest version of WordPress with help of some church team members in server management, website vision and technical/training support.
Provided staff training and provide ongoing maintenance in features, plugin updates and general WordPress housekeeping.
Patch My PC is a third-party software management tool designed to automate the process of patching and updating applications. It is used by organisations to keep software up-to-date across multiple devices.
Consider a College/University/NHS IT systems with 100s or 1000s of PCs / Laptops that the IT department needs to synchronise the update times of the various pieces of software – perhaps during the summer holidays rather than the updates being sporadically per device ~ which would put everyone on different versions and be a nightmare to support…
Patch My PC integrates with Microsoft Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Intune, allowing IT administrators to manage, deploy, and update third-party applications in bulk across an organisation’s systems.
My team built the UI called Advanced Insights which makes SCCM a lot more pleasant to work with. It is a layer over the complex SCCM controls/settings and feeds back all the same data to IT Administrators via a much more pleasant and user-friendly UI.
It was built in AngularJS / .Net / SQL Server.
Due to changes in the organisation, the UK team were required to update this to ReactJS / .Net / MongoDB and were lacking Front End React skills so I was brought in to build an equivalent UI in React and transfer the knowledge to the Angular team so they would be able to pick up maintenance once my contract was over.
Due to my Full Stack background, I was able to complete the Front End tasks and frequently complete the tasks for the back end as well.
In addition, I was involved with supporting customers using the Salesforce CRM which in my opinion creates more accountability in my daily work after speaking to customers who use it and experience problems I would have otherwise dismissed.
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Worked in an agile team to deliver a new version of the Planning portal. Later, we restyled components to enable the web application to have themes for Northern Ireland and Wales.
During the first 12 – 21 months at TerraQuest, 100% of my efforts were spent in Front End development. Later, my past experience in C# .NetCore/Azure SQL proved useful, and I was recognised as a Full Stack developer to complete back end tasks in my team. I also branched out and worked on the Umbraco CMS for the main website. This reduced dependencies on other teams and also improved communication with them as we could “speak the same language”.
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Redesigned a Wordpress Site for a dental practice. Ongoing maintenance to cover plugin/theme updates, web hosting management, PHP updates.
Used linux terminal to manage files, plugins.
Overcame a few challenges with some caching plugins caching to disk and exceeding hosting max number of files.
Working on a solution to archive old emails and free up disk space.
Macrium Software’s main product is Macrium Reflect, a desktop system for backing up and cloning Microsoft Windows-based systems. As the company lacked a dedicated web team, I was hired to establish and manage a small team to handle the web-facing side of the business, assisting end-users, resellers, and distributors with software license management for Macrium Reflect.
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