Daniel Lewington

Experience

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  Colley Lane Primary Academy

  Sept 2011 - Aug 2020

  Class Teacher

  ● Worked as class teacher involved in general primary teaching to children● Taught coding through use of Logo and Scratch, taught networking through traceroute and a basic understanding of how the internet and how a search engine works, as well as teaching basic online safety and cybersecurity● Undertook projects to improve teaching of IT through STEM subjects, including increasing usage of iPads to aid learning of science and maths, as well as a robotics project using cardboard2code

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  Windsor Academy Trust

  Sept 2016 - Aug 2020

  Lead Practitioner in Primary Maths

  ● Worked as a specialist lead practitioner in primary maths across five primary schools● Wrote the curriculum, line manager to maths co-ordinators, analysed and acted on maths results data, moderated work and provided training, coaching and mentoring● Trained teachers in incorporating IT to improve the quality of teaching and learning in maths

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  IT Career Switch

  Jan 2020 - Apr 2023

  IT Technician Trainee
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  OneAdvanced

  Oct 2020 - now

  ● Worked as a Progress database administrator to support any software which utilised Progress in Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems and worked as a SQL database administrator to support HR software running in Windows● Investigated incidents for managed service provider and on-premise customers where systems and services utilising Progress were down, restored them to full functionality, followed by root cause analysis to prevent a re-occurrence of the issue concerned● Supported back-ups and restoring of data, analysing and optimising the performance of Progress/SQL databases, as well as trouble-shooting errors which arose from Progress/SQL● Analysed customer’s server and end client infrastructure including network, RAM, CPU and hard drive performance to advise on optimising it to work with Progress and the software which relies on it● Investigated network connectivity issues relating to enterprise clocking devices and web services which were reliant on Progress● Created and maintained Windows batch scripts to trouble-shoot and maintain services which required Progress● Supported the security of software relying on Progress through applying TLS protocol to http and smtp traffic, configuring ports on firewalls, applying PKI certificates to webpages, patching software and assisting with applying findings from penetration testing Show less ● Worked to support customers with financial and tax portal software which was on premise, hosted and in the cloud● Supported queries regarding software functionality as well as trouble-shooting issues when functionality was not working as expected● Trained colleagues in my own team and other teams on functionality within our cloud financials software● Wrote SQL scripts to correct issues with customers’ data in their SQL database● Analysed Linux code for financial software to ascertain where issues with errors and functionality lay Show less

  • Network Engineer

    Sept 2023 - now

  • Technical Support Consultant

    Oct 2021 - Aug 2023

  • Support Associate

    Oct 2020 - Oct 2021