Nearing the end of week 1

Its now Thursday of week one.

Yesterday was my induction with Liam McDowal and Kevin Brogan of the Directors office, two other Napier students were also present at the meeting. The meeting covered generic operating procedures such as time recording and a ubiquitous health and safety brief.

At 1pm I had a meeting with Sanccia the current placement student to discuss some of the requirements for the year ahead with regard to coursework and a bit of guidance in terms of content for this blog.

I have also been seconded to the role of Computer representative, the purpose of this roll is to have a person in each department who can take on the roll of technician or typical IT guy, when a new computer or user comes into the department it's my job to prepare their pc equipement, same applies when it comes to any problems which may arise. The concept being is that there is a nominated rep in most departments who is on hand locally to tend to the technical issues, this in turn gives a certain level of autonomy to the department without over reliance on a central IT department. I had a discussion yesterday morning with Bill Lee, head of development team and the concept of the position was explained to me. I carried out the role practically last night when preparing a new PC for an existing member of staff, the irony is that even having this position I am currently without email, access to some drives, some access permissions and limited functionality when trying to use the CMS service (which is essential to setting up new users and machines). I am awaiting conformation that this has been resolved.

For now I am continuing with my Oracle database training, I am now 50% complete, screenshots to suppliment will be in the evidence folder.