Mark Whipp is a London based freelance IT Consultant
"Trading as MWDC since 2005 I have been undertaking freelance IT support and project management work predominantly for restaurant, bar and coffee shop clients in the London area. Mostly this work involves setting up the IT systems for new restaurant and bar openings. I have done hundreds of restaurant openings over the last 30 years. I also offer Pay-as-you-go IT troubleshooting, repairs and project management for my clients."
Skill Areas
- Network, WiFi system setup and management.
- Setup and management of IP phone systems.
- Setup and management of EPOS and stock systems.
- Terminating, testing, labelling and documentation of Cat 5e and Cat6 Ethernet cabling.
- Planning and preparation of IT Cabinets.
- Day to Day IT management.
- IT project planning and instigation with third party vendors.
- IT Documentation.
- Running a set of Accounts (Sage Line 50/ Xero). Invoicing, preparing Profit and Loss, Balance sheets, doing journals and year end tasks.
- Preparing design ideas.
- Preparing design assets, logos, posters, web images, doing layouts with existing assets.
- Planning, designing and coding small websites. Assisting with web CMS's.
Skills
- Manage and overview IT operations for hospitality SME’s on a freelance basis.
- Handle new site openings from planning stage, service provider orders to installation and configuration of network devices and WiFi systems.
Software and Hardware Proficiency
- OSX
- Unifi Network Controllers.
- Omada Network Controllers.
- Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator ,Adobe inDesign, Adobe Photoshop.
- Microsoft Excel and VBA scripting.
Digital and Web Skills
- Reasonable HTML and CSS skills.
- Reasonable knowledge of Git version control utility.
- Good basic knowledge of dynamic MAMP based CMS websites. (Wordpress and MODX).
- Good basic knowledge of static HTML/ CSS websites using Git for committing updates.
- Good knowledge of preparing and optimising images for interactive websites.
