Luke Tainton

I acted as a project mentor for two teams of First Year students, guiding them through their Innovation Project as part of their course. These teams both utilised the LoRa LPWAN protocol, which allowed me to continue my learning about the technology alongside them, while also providing assistance to them, based on my experience from my Innovation Project from my first year.

Working in the Produce department, I was responsible for making sure that fruit and vegetables were readily available and kept fresh. Using Walmart's inventory control system, I transferred stock from the backroom to the shop floor and checked that stock numbers on the shop floor and in the backroom were accurate.

Zodiac Aerospace is now part of Safran. While transitioning from A-Level to University, I formed part of the first line of customer support, dealing directly with user queries. I used a newly-implemented LANDESK Management Suite to build new desktops, rebuild machines and deploy applications. I also took on the development of a LG SuperSign implementation. After doing research on the project and working with the business analysts, we managed to increase the size of the deployment from 3 screens to 12 in various areas of the business.

I spent a week in this Cardiff-based computer repair shop completing a variety of tasks. No two days were the same. As part of this, I was asked to build donated machines ready for sale, by installing Windows 7 onto RM One model PCs and installing antivirus, productivity software etc. I was also tasked with ‘ghosting’ hard drives, i.e. copying hard drives so that deployment of an OS wouldn’t take as long. I also salvaged working parts from non-working computers and placed them into working PCs with faulty hardware.