
Francis Taylor
Help Desk Officer
Friendly, fast first-line IT support
Help desk officer with six years providing first- and second-line IT support for businesses in Birmingham. The friendly first point of contact for IT problems — logging and resolving tickets, supporting users with hardware, software and accounts, and keeping people working with minimal disruption. Improved first-contact resolution by building a knowledge base and tightening the ticket process. Handles incidents and requests, troubleshoots desktops, software and accounts, manages Active Directory and basic networking, and escalates the tougher issues with clear notes. Strong on both the technical troubleshooting and the patience and communication good support needs. Calm, helpful and genuinely good with frustrated users. Looking for a help-desk, IT-support or service-desk role with an organization that values responsive, friendly support.
Birmingham IT Services - Birmingham, UK
Help Desk Officer April 2017 to Present 9 years & 3 months
Improved the first-contact resolution by building a knowledge base and tightening the ticket process.
Log and resolve all the incidents and the requests for the hardware, software and accounts.
Troubleshoot all the desktops, the applications and the user accounts and reset their access quickly enough.
Manage all the Active Directory and the basic networking and escalate the tougher issues clearly.
Keep all the users working with the minimal disruption and always with a genuinely helpful manner.
Midlands Tech Support - Birmingham, UK
IT Support Technician August 2015 to March 2017 1 year & 8 months
Logged all the tickets and resolved the hardware and the account issues.
Learned the troubleshooting, Active Directory and service desk on the job.
Gained the A+ and ITIL certification and then a help-desk-officer role.
Midlands Tech Support - Birmingham, UK
IT Trainee June 2013 to July 2015 2 years & 2 months
Learned the troubleshooting, the systems and the service on the job.
Built the support grounding that the help desk is built on.
Then earned the move into an IT-support technician role from there.
Birmingham Metropolitan College
BTEC Level 3 in IT (September 2013 to June 2015)
CompTIA / AXELOS
CompTIA A+ & ITIL Foundation Certification (January 2017 to May 2017)
Better first-contact resolution
Good with frustrated users
CompTIA Network+
CompTIA (January 2019 to May 2019)
ITIL Service Management
Axelos (March 2021 to Present)
CompTIA A+ & ITIL Foundation
CompTIA / AXELOS (May 2017 to Present)
Microsoft 365 & Endpoint Support
Microsoft (April 2019 to Present)
- IT Support
- Troubleshooting
- Ticket Management
- Active Directory
- Hardware Support
- Software Support
- Networking Basics
- ITIL Service Management
- Knowledge Base
- Remote Support