Working for over 12 years in Information Technology, at all levels, from first line Help Desk, to Strategic IT and Board Director.

Ben worked for Atlas Business plc for 12 years, working up through Help Desk Support, IT Engineer, IT Manager and IT Director.   Ben was also the chief architect, IT manager and founder director behind C2 Internet Ltd.   Ben also worked as a volunteer, providing strategic and tactical governance to the Internet Exchange Point - Manchester Network Access Point Ltd, as board member and chairman for a period of 4 years.

West16 are able to provide you with outsourced management and support, short and long term in house IT contracting and bespoke solutions.   We make it our business to help your business, and will work flexibly to accommodate your specific needs and requirements, to help grow your business and solve your problems.

West16 are able to bring significant depth and breath of knowledge to bear, when working to help your business.   With skills covering:

• Strategic IT solution design and deployment
• Support Desk management
• Client Server, Thin Client and Web based software specification
• Software development using Omnis 4GL and PHP
• SQL RDBMS Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL
• Advanced Corporate and Service Provider LAN and WAN networking
• Network technologies such as - OSPF/BGP, L2TP/LNS, HSRP
• Solution Design and Management using Cisco, Foundry and Quagga switches and routers
• Networking security using Cisco PIX & ASA appliances
• Microsoft operating systems NT4, 2000, 2003
• Thin client RDP / Citrix deployments
• Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003
• High Availability Debian Linux Server systems i.e. Mail, Web, DNS, Radius, NFS etc
• Software training
• Accounting software
• Customer Relationship Management software

We look forward to working with you and using the skills and knowledge West16 can deliver, to help your business succeed.   For more information about our services please email West16 at it@west16.co.uk