Meet Dan, our Digital Training Officer Tweeting from Nov 4th to Nov 8th

Hi, I am Dan, the Digital Training Officer.

I have been working at York St John for just over a year and my principle responsibility is to promote, coach and train University staff raising their technology Skills.

If you want help with Office, Windows or most other things computer related, let me know and I will either help you or let you know where the information you need is.

You can get in touch with me via my pages on the York St John website, email me at digitaltraining@yorksj.ac.uk or tweet the ILS twitter account with your questions.

Meet Deputy Director Steve, one of our newest team members

For the week beginning the 7 January, Deputy Director Steve will be taking on Twitter.  Below is a little more about him.  Look out for his tweets identified with a ^SP!

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I am  the Deputy Director of ILS, with specific responsibility for IT – in other words, ask me about computers, don’t ask me about books!

I came from the University of Southampton where I started about 13 years ago as a techy geek working on Unix systems.  Over the years, I diversified in technology, and then was promoted into management.  It was around this time I started wearing shirts, and later suits, instead of t-shirts and jeans.  For the last few years, I was Head of Research Support in Southampton University’s IT department and came to York St John in November, bringing with me a lot of IT experience and qualifications in a small range of management acronyms.

The library side of things is new to me and I’m slowly starting to get used to Library and information management jargon.  So maybe you can ask me about books.  I didn’t foresee my career spreading into this area as well, but it’s all interesting and challenging.  I’m also finding it quite fun to work in a smaller, friendly organisation which has a strong student focus.

I think Fountains and ILS are doing great, and I’m looking forward to helping to maintain and improve on what we’ve done so far.  Feel free to say hi to me or ask any questions to @YSJ_ILS while I’m in control of it this week.

Meet Matt, Our Graduate Trainee!

Meet Matt!  He's a graduate trainee here in Fountains.  He has decided to stick with us after his three years as a student at York St. John.  He has control of twitter until the 4 January.  To follow his tweets, look for ^MT.  

After being a student of Product Design at St John for the last three years, I’ve moved across Fountains and into the office to become ILS’ latest graduate intern. If you haven’t seen me dashing to and fro across the library, you’ll have definitely seen me advertising the university on a massive billboard at the train station.

While I’ve been here, it’s been my job to develop a little something called SMILE. I can’t say much about what that is right now… but you’ll find out much more in the New Year. For now, all I’m going to say is that it might pay to keep your eyes peeled. (Honestly, that’s the least subtle hint you’ll hear this side of Christmas.)

Other than SMILE, I work on a whole raft of ILS-themed bits and pieces – mostly design for web and print. I’m not a librarian, so please don’t ask me about books, it won’t end well for any of us. But while I’m in control of the ILS Twitter, I want to actually hear from a few of you! Ask me anything about anything.

Meet Dan, Our Digital Trainer

Dan is our Digital Training Officer, within ILS.  His role is to work with staff throughout YSJ, promoting digital literacy, and to train and coach individuals to improve their technology user skills.  If you want help with Windows, Office, or just how to get to grips with IT in your workplace just give me a call.

Meet Phil, one of our Systems Specialists

This week, we are have turned our twitter account over to one of our System Specialists, Phil Noret.  He will be talking about what he does on a normal day to help keep our IT systems going.  He has written a little bit about his job below.  Feel free to ask him questions about what he does or any questions pertaining to his work here at YSJ! Check out what he is saying on our twitter feed @YSJ_ILS!

Hello!

My job role is “systems specialist” within ILS

I primarily work in the network team administering the network infrastructure. This includes implementing new solutions, resolve any issues that may arise, identify and recommend any possible improvements.

I am Currently working on a new campus wide wireless network, this will be followed by the launch of Eduroam. I’m also working on the IPv6 deployment which is in its very early stages.

I also second desktop team with the virtual server and desktop infrastructure to provide additional support when required.