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| Intern Training: | | Applicants to the position of short term intern are invited to suitably qualified and motivated people. | | The applicant must be on a career path towards becoming an electronics (or Dev-Ops) engineer with a balance of hardware and software skills. |
| The Role: | | The intern will be part of the Technical Support department working under the expert guidance of Senior Electronics Engineers. | | The role will involve the maintenance of servers, desktops, laptops, tablets, mobiles and related networking equipment. | | This includes the refurbishment and migration of desktops to Microsoft Windows-10 and servers to Linux. | | Stock control of components to be recycled, licenses that can be reused and electric PAT testing is involved. | | Desktop test and commissioning requires a working knowledge of Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint, together with Adobe, antivirus and disk management utilities. | | Server test and commissioning requires a working knowledge of Apache, MySQL, PHP, Ruby, FTP, Mail and related Linux utilities. |
| Benefits: | | The company is structured and operates in accordance with Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards - a good knowledge of ITIL will be imparted. | | Security using ISO/IEC 27002 is a fundamental part of risk assessment and business continuity - many tasks will involve these security standards. | | European Data Protection regulations are continually evolving and are paramount to every application service provided - a full insight is involved. |
| Corporation: | | LeXica Ltd is the UK arm of The LeXica Foundation, an international venture capital firm that backs and works with IT companies in the long-term. | | LeXica operate green data centers across Europe and provide private bespoke application services to hundreds of companies who demand security and confidentiality. | | Application services include Customer Relationship Management; Workflow and Task Management; Sales Quotation Management; Financial Accounting billing and accruals; Transport and Logistics; Energy Management and Insurance for vehicles, vessels and aircraft. |
| Success: | | Success in the role is measured when the Intern can go into any office and fully document the existing IT infrastructure in accordance with International standards. | | Risk analysis is documented in compliance with European Data Protection regulations. | | A refurbishment plan is documented using diagnostics on any computer not working as expected. | | When authorized, the refurbishment plan can be implemented to repair and reimage the computer to its normal working state. |
| Logistics: | | Business hours are 09:00 to 17:00 with one hour for lunch, Monday to Friday. | | Emoluments are at the national rate applicable to age and experience. | | A professional business attitude with business casual attire is mandated at all times. | | Security and company confidentiality is paramount. |
| What Did I Do: | | The role incorporates hardware, networking and software as defined by ITIL methods. | | Hardware maintenance involved documenting the inventory of computers and related equipment, setting fair market values and scheduling upgrades and recycling. | | Many computers where upgraded to the latest edition of Windows-10 or Linux, depending on the suitability of the computer. New operating systems were installed and verified from USB stick, DVD drive or network connections are dictated by BIOS settings. | | Many computers were dismantled and components recycled, including special care of hard disks that may have contained valuable company data. The inventory of dismantled memory chips enabled many other computers to be upgrade with more memory. Disposal in compliance with WEEE directives was managed with a full audit trail. | | Software was developed as an Inventory Control System that validated the hardware work that was undertaken. This included regual maintenance releases and online acess for management information and search purposes. | | Network connections were used to download and upgrade computers, but some networks were more efficient than others nd Wi-Fi was minimised when downloading new operating system instances. |
| Lessons: | | I learned to prioritize and scheduled what work to do with with many upgrades running in parallel. | | I learned to make inventory decisions and valuation decisions based on research and on-the-job experience. | | I learned the benefits of continual improvements so software could evolve as more experience was gained. | | I learned that smartness has its rewards. I learned that supplimentary salt and sugar are not needed. | | I learned that some servers can be big and heavy, and need special care when lifting and moving. |
| Lessons to Learn: | | Tidyness - cables, tools and equipment must be put away or kept tidy when not in use. |
| Information War: | | The information world wide war three (WW3) began so long ago that its origins can only be associated with the end of the world-wide cold war. | | WW3 is identified by state sponsored agencies stealing intellectual property from all other countries for nationalistic purposes. | | WW3 has seen the personal details of more than a billion people stolen so any of those people can be impersonated by criminals. | | WW3 has been the rise and rise of cyber war being reported as a trival matter that does not need to be of concern to 90% of people who have lost the war. | | WW3 has seen the rise and rise of fake news - those that tell the biggest lies get more air-time than those that only tell the truth. | | The UK democratically elected to put sanctions on itself, to adopt an isolationist policy like North Korea and to devalue is currency to make the poor people a lot more poor. | | The USA democratically elected a game show host to manage the worlds biggest economy as if it was a business run by a dictitorial CEO. | | The world ignore the false news created by state sponsored agencies and imagined that a failed business person who had gone bankcrupt three times had the mental capacity to become a politician. | | The world looked on as the UK decided that in the middle of WW3, it did not need allies, but wanted isolationism - head under the sand come to mind. | | Game Show | | WW3 is not about nation states doing a rerun of WW2 with aircraft carriers, its about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer by democratic means. | | The poor have been so well educated that they imagine they can get rich by becoming nationalistic in smaller and smaller territories. | | The rich live in a multi-national world where borders have no significance as money, goods, services and rich people can travel where they choose. | | The poor live within isolated nationalistic areas with borders to stop progress, to stop innovation and to stop the poor from getting rich. | | The poor imagine the they can win WW3 with fifty year old aircraft carriers and trident nuclear missile technology - they missed the information age. | | The rich won the information age war by capturing all information and then serving up fake news that poor people can get great again with an aircraft carrier trying to stop a terrorist with a truck. | | Nationalism | | WW2 was started by the democratic election of people with a nationalistic mantra - poor people who had been misinformed. | | WW3 is being won by people spreading fake news to cause poor people to democratically vote for nationalistic policies. | | Poor people have to suffer austerity and isolationism so the rich can get richer - the political system is so refined, that poor people democreatically vote for this. | | WW3 will see lots of little nationalistic areas fighting local wars with other nationalistic areas in the name of religion, faith, belief and other false news. | | WW3 will see the extermination of billions of poor people who no longer have any purpose to the bigger goal of the one-percent club. |
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