Joe Barton

IT Support Technician Apprentice · Infrastructure & Cloud

jozeph.co.uk
github.com/Frocolate
jozephbarton@gmail.com

Profile

IT Support Technician Apprentice building practical experience across infrastructure, networking, Microsoft environments, cloud technologies and software development. Interested in moving towards infrastructure, cloud and automation-focused roles.

Experience

Current

IT Support Technician Apprentice

Burnage Academy for Boys

Supporting users and systems while working with Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, networking, endpoint support, asset management, Smoothwall and remote-access technologies. Also developing practical knowledge through Azure administration study and infrastructure projects.

Projects

Python

Currency Exchange Tool

CLI and Flask web application using live exchange-rate data, historic rates, currency searching, validation and graphing.

Python / SQLite

Notipy

Reminder and notification project exploring SQLite persistence, environment configuration and email handling.

Homelab

Self-hosted infrastructure

Hands-on learning around Proxmox, Linux, Docker, networking and self-hosted services, with Terraform and Kubernetes exploration.

Skills

InfrastructureWindows Server, AD, GPO, DNS, DHCP, networking, virtualisation

CloudAzure administration concepts, governance, subscriptions, networking, cost management

DevelopmentPython, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, C, Git, GitHub

PlatformsLinux, Proxmox, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Smoothwall, Snipe-IT

Education

A-levels: Mathematics (C), Further Mathematics (C), Computer Science (D).