Crazy times

This month has been like no other I have experienced in my role. In fact, there are days when I don’t even remember my role from a few months ago.

On January the first we start supporting our seventh school. Walkwood are a large middle school and we have taken on their technician. We have also taken on an additional apprentice as an admin role.

To add to this fast moving expansion (we only took on another first at half term) we are moving to a new office as well to house our ever expanding team. Organising this has been quite a complex task on top of everything else.

I have also been at the forefront of designing and creating life without levels mark sheets in SIMs for three schools, and then adapting parents reports to take he new data. The mark sheets I have developed started with the assistant head at my home school, and we have quickly been outsourced to other schools looking for similiar. 

I enjoy collaborating like this, knowing I have made a sizeable impact by implementing these systems, but I can’t say I enjoy the setup. In our current office we are all in one room in a noisy building, making concentrating very difficult. Leaving me to work late on into the evening when quieter or even at weekends. 

Further hassle has been in the form of getting a lease of a SAN, our second. First was trying to understand the entire hardware setup which would enable us a higher throughput from our hypervhosts – we are experiencing lots of issues with our Veeam backups, impero and sometimes even file access. We are also coming close to our 4tb limit, so we could do with some more space. All this in addition to the 60gb SSDs in our standard machines filling up and needing some new, making the order quite important. But having to understand and triple check a legal document for the lease is slowing it down. Still, better safe then sorry.

At another school, we are working on social media campaigns and purchasing more and more hardware, hopefully tonight we will have a budget agreed!

At our first schools we are redesigning websites, finding solutions for aging projectors and looking at tablet solutions for them. Infact this Friday we have a couple of suppliers coming over to showcase a range of tablets to our schools. 

To top it all off tomorrow is a chance to use our new LED lights for the first time for the Christmas show.

All this on top of the daily grind. Around 160-180 tickets a week. 

So it is all go. And there is a little update.