2. Can you tell me about your role?
When I first started at EcoSecurities, I was the only IT person in the company! I was responsible for everything in relation to IT, including the company website, email, network management and hardware. Since then, our IT team has grown rapidly over the last two years, and I am now mainly involved in IT asset management, network management and user support for Oxford staff and our international offices.
3. What are the main challenges about your role?
As our company is growing so fast, the main challenges are to find different approaches for improving our IT services, i.e. upgrading internet bandwidth, implementing a centralised system, identifying and applying new technologies which will help to improve company performance.
4. What do you most enjoy about your job?
What I most enjoy about my job is helping people when they have IT problems, as this pushes me to improve my IT skills and constantly learn new things. In addition, being in IT team means you get to know everyone in the company and they all know you!
5. What is a typical day at work for you?
It mainly consists of IT support for local users and overseas offices to sort out their day-to-days problems. I am also involved in managing the central servers and network to make sure everything is running properly.
6. What are the requirements and skills you need to do your job?
You definitely need a technical background and adequate knowledge to provide user support and manage the network effectively. However, the most important thing that you need to have is good communication skills in order to deal with different user needs.
7. Do you travel often?
Not as much as others in the company who supervise our projects all over the world, but I do enjoy travelling. I've been to our Dublin and China offices to help with their IT issues, which was good experience and I got to put lots of names to faces! While I was there I took some days off to see the cities which was lots of fun.
8. Why did you join EcoSecurities?
One of the reasons why I joined Ecosecurities is that it is a highly international company, where you can meet different people from all over the world, who are all working for the same cause. Even though I have not come from an environmental background, I'm pleased to support the company’s aims as part of the IT team.
9. What would you say to someone thinking about joining EcoSecurities?
If you are the sort of person who seeks new challenges from day to day and likes to work in multinational global company, I can highly recommended EcoSecurities.
