Areas of expertise
Consulting on school governor and management level.
Mat writes proposals for the adoption of best-practice and industry standards within schools. Bringing his experience in consulting at a school governor and management level - see testimonials - alongside his technical expertise and passion for harnessing technology, Mat will assist in constructing a strategy in accordance with your school's wider vision that can set your school on the path to ICT success.
Implementation.
In addition to advising and consulting, mat smith services actually carries out the implementation. Please see below for some examples.
Getting your school online.
You may already have a VLE, a website, web-based email, internal email systems, or use third-party communication services. But is your school really online? Mat will assess the viability of getting the following services online: reporting, parent communications, lesson registration, access to school files from home, internal email, intranet services, and more.
Support and systems management.
- Server installations
- Active Directory design, installation, and management
- Support for Windows Server 2000 - 2008, Windows 2000, XP, Vista
- Excellent working knowledge of SIMS
- In-house internet connection and firewall management
- Electronic lesson registration
- Internal network services
- Wireless systems
- Security design and consultation
- Audits of current provision and future requirements
Staff consultations and training.
What use are technical developments and whizzy systems, if you haven't taken your staff with you? Mat specialises in increasing confidence in ICT systems amongst teaching and technical staff. This is achieved through tailored training, staff feedback sessions, and enthusiastic advice in a coaching and mentoring style delivered with a uniformly positive tone. The broad scope of support for systems ranges from MIS (e.g. SIMS) to specialist graphics, music, and languages applications.
Mat will meet with your staff, identify their challenges, and seek focused solutions.
System design.
- Storage area networks
- Virtualisation
- Server, wiring, rack, and data center installations
- Cisco wireless and network switch installations
- Music ICT and languages lab design and specification
- Project management
Online technologies.
- VLEs (experience installing Moodle and Sharepoint)
- Design and commissioning of websites, intranets, wikis, blogs, etc.
- Web-based access to school services, e.g. secure access to internal network files, internal school email
- Online helpdesk systems to improve in-house ICT support
School branding.
- Branding
- Visual services
- Web content management
- Web design
Examples available upon request.