Featured Project
Roll-A-Ball
A Unity game built for young children, where players roll a ball to collect pickups within a time limit. Features multiple levels with increasing difficulty and extended time allowances as levels progress.
IT support work and projects by Jack Ward
Fixing Things, and Building Them
IT Support Work
Placements and ongoing technical roles — the systems, the faults and the fixes.
- Worthing Homes
Laptop Rebuild and Deployment
May 2024Diagnosed and rebuilt laptops for deployment across a housing provider, using Active Directory and Azure to manage accounts and access. Worked across Azure AD user management, file server administration and Hyper-V virtualisation, alongside frontline hardware support for staff — tracking faults from failed display cables to a Bluetooth keyboard conflict that was disabling built-in keyboards.
- Active Directory
- Azure AD
- Hyper-V
- File servers
- Hardware diagnostics
- Northbrook College
Site-Wide IT Support
June 2021Kept computers maintained and network connectivity consistent for staff and students across a college site. Responded to classroom and office requests — hard drive repair, multi-monitor setups for teaching staff — and deployed fresh Windows installations over the network.
- Windows deployment
- Networking
- Hardware repair
- End-user support
- River of Life Church
Live Audio and Visual Operations
2018 – PresentLead technical operator for weekly services: PA setup, live audio mixing, voice-over recording and real-time presentation screens. Faults have to be diagnosed and fixed while the service is running, with no option to take the system offline. Also maintain the organisation's laptops, website and YouTube channel.
- PA systems
- Live AV
- Troubleshooting under pressure
- Web and media
- The Sand Project
Device Repair Bench
2023 – PresentReceive, diagnose and repair phones, laptops and tablets, then quote and price the work. Most of the job is explaining the fault and the options to the person who owns the device, in language they can act on.
- Phone and tablet repair
- Laptop repair
- Diagnostics
- Customer communication
- Guild Care
Portable Appliance Testing
2023 – PresentCarry out PAT testing on electrical stock at the Green House Shop, confirming items are electrically safe before they reach the shop floor and recording the results — practical electrical safety work running alongside the retail side of the role.
- PAT testing
- Electrical safety
- Record keeping
Builds and Experiments
Things built for the sake of building them — games, apps and hardware.
