A week in the life of Armstrong Consultants

Harpenden, UK - 1st July 2007 - Chris Watson, an A Level student at Roundwood Park School, recently spent a week at Armstrong Consultants to gain an insight into the day-to-day running of a software consultancy. During the week Chris shadowed various teams within the company including development and programming, project management and customer support.

As well as discovering the different roles of each team within the business Chris was set the task to redesign Armstrong's intranet. The current internal site was out-of-date and consequently staff didn't really use it. As a result of Chris' improvements the intranet is now far more user-friendly and will increase the number of staff who logon to the site to share information and product updates. Chris also assisted Armstrong's internal IT manager to build laptops and support any internal IT issues during the week.

Chris commented: "My time at Armstrong Consultants was a really valuable experience. The timing was great too, with a University of East Anglia Open Day visit coming up - part of the course includes project work, so I'm hoping there might be something suitable that I can do with Armstrong Consultants."

Phil Walters, Team Leader for Armstrong's Customer Support Department, commented: "I found Chris very enthusiastic and helpful. The work he did on our intranet has provided a very useful service for our off-site staff; something that we have never had the time to implement."

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