Martin Latta

IT Support Manager

Prestwick, Scotland, United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Service Desk Team Lead at Harper Macleod LLP
    Aug 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Service Desk Analyst at Ashurst
    Mar 2015 - Aug 2022 · 7 yrs 6 mos

  • 1st/2nd line support analyst at Ignis Asset Management
    May 2013 - Apr 2015 · 2 yrs

    Part of a new internal helpdesk supporting Glasgow and London users. Support staff via phone, email and face to face. Log calls and take responsibility of call until resolved. Create new user profiles on Active directory, Exchange accounts, MS Lync accounts, Voicemail, RSA tokens, Blackberries, iPhones and iPads. Support Rich, thin and zero clients using Windows XP/7, office 2003,2010,2013 Support users working remotely from home. Support AV meetings. Assist in the upgrade of HP desktops to 10 Zig zero Clients.

  • Local Support Analyst at DLA Piper
    Mar 2012 - May 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Site management and support for 100 customers in our Glasgow office. Travel to UK and European offices when required for project work. Supporting heavily customized Windows 7 Desktops/Laptops with Office 2010. Helping customers with setting up their home equipment to allow them to work remotely on their PCs, iPads, iPhones and an assortment of smart phones. Configuration and support of MS Lync unified Communications and Telephony. Time and workload management skills due to high priority of incidents and working on my own. Keeping calm and focused during periods of high pressure or major incidents. Build and configure Desktops/Laptops for new employees ensuring they have access to everything they require before they start. Full configuration and troubleshooting of Blackberry's on enterprise server. Setting up Customers with ActivIdentiy Tokens. Hard tokens and soft tokens. Perform daily and monthly backups and use the tapes to recover lost data. Maintaining stock levels to ensure adequate spares are available. Set up and supported equitrac print solutions.

  • 2nd Line Technical Support Agent at The University of Glasgow
    Feb 2011 - Feb 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Assisting with the upgrade to Windows 7 on over 500 student desktops. Supporting MVLS Staff and Post Graduate Students over 3 sites across Glasgow and a further 3 NHS hospitals where some tutors were based. Supporting Staff with different hardware and software needs including Mac OS, Red Hat and Solaris. Assisting customers with setting up an assortment of laptops and desktops for use on the University Network by installing AV software and assigning an IP address. Setting up Novell accounts for new users. Providing help to customers in selecting new equipment that will perform the tasks they require. Recovering lost/corrupt data from Hard Drives. Advising staff and students on how to backup work. Upgrading/Replacing Hardware i.e PSU, Hard Drives, RAM Etc