Adam Laycock

@arcath
North West England
He/Him

Windows Server Administrator

IT Support

Network Engineer

Customer Support

Software Developer

Open Source

Visual Studio Code

Software Engineering

TypeScript

JavaScript

WordPress Plugin Author

GitHub user

React

CSS

Coding

Web Design

Self-Starter

Self-Taught

Network Architect

IT Engineer & Developer from the North West of England.

Full time system builder be it Windows/Azure domains, Network solutions or Full stack applications.

I'm open to

open source contributions

and writing.

Contact Me

Resume

Jan 2022 - Present

IT Network Manager, Longridge High School

Sep 2009 - Dec 2021

Technical Manager, Ed-IT Solutions (UK) Ltd.

Portfolio

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Building Confidence Through Effective Monitoring

I migrated all of our VMWare VMs over to HyperV, moving them onto a SAN and setting up Failover Clustering. Due to the need to power off the VMs during the transfer this took a lot of co-ordination...

I built a new domain for a school on new hardware. This new domain is linked to Azure AD for user syncronisation and auto sign in. OneDrive is synced and configured automatically for all staff. Thi...

I released the first version of SODB a utility class that allows you to search, sort and filter data with no external dependencies .

Websites

Built a new wesbite for a Primary School. This site features a new theme written from the ground up to be highly customisable and re-usable. The theme is the result of alot of design work with the ...

I designed built and launched the new website for The Book Lounge, an independent book shop in the lake district town of Kirkby Lonsdale.

Launched the new Next.JS version of my website.

React Applications

Start-Screen

I built a new React App to replace the frontend on the companies CRM & Scheduling Application. This new version made use of TailwindCSS and incorperated a lot of improvements to the user experiance...

I built a CRM system for Ed-IT Solutions that was tailored to our unique needs. It was built from the ground up to focus on the data that we needed as engineers on site. It provides a space to stor...

I designed, built, and deployed a new GraphQL API and React Application to manage the companies stock. It pulls in customers, suppliers, quotes and purchase from Xero so we can track items through ...

Articles

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I wrote an article on creating WDS discover images for use with devices that don't have on-board network ports. This was especially useful as a lot of the hardware the Department for Education was ...

I developed a squid configuration to cache the downloads of apps and iOS updates for iPads. The aim was to reduce the amount of internet traffic the iPads where generating. It greatly improved perf...

I spent a year "playing" Screeps, a developer strategy game that runs your NodeJS script to act in the game. It required the development of quite a few complex systems to build a reliable script. I...

I implemented CSS Grid on my website as a first test of the technology before using it on other projects. I wrote up my implementation in this article.