Icon Information Systems provides a variety of IT consultancy services to clients who require a range technical and “soft” skills.
Involved mainly in Education Icon Information Systems’ clients benefit from John Hackett’s experience of Educational IT from both the teaching and technical viewpoints. While an appreciation of the educational potential of IT is possible without technical expertise it is hard for non-technical staff to fully develop a whole school IT “Vision” and appreciate what is required from the school’s network in order to support it.
John Hackett also has expertise in the Performing Arts and is keen to develop this side of the business.
IT consultancy:
- whole-school strategy development
- e-safety (guidance, policy, etc)
- network security (policy development and review, etc)
- tender writing, evaluation, review
- liaison with third party suppliers on client’s behalf
- project management
Writing/Editing:
- content for web and print
- technical writing – case studies, whitepapers, technical documentation, etc
Technical consultancy:
- application installation and support (Squid, Apache, MySQL, Postgres, etc.)
- Zimbra Collaboration Suite server installation and support (Open Source and Network Editions)
- Linux server installation and configuration
- virtual server planning and installation (VMWare, VirtualBox)
- server containerization (OpenVZ. LXC on Proxmox clusters)
- on-site and remote server management
- software development (bash, Perl, Python, HTML, php, JavaScript, MySQL)
- web-site planning, management and design
- network design and review
- network security
- Internet/web filtering (as part of general e-safety policy and Protex installation/support)