Alex is a father, husband, home owner and tech-guy, living out of Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom. Alex runs a small technical services company, named ProAction Networks which was incorporated in March 2008.
“I left school in 1998 and after a brief spell at University, studying Computer Science (software programming), I worked briefly for Microsoft at the turn of the millenia before working for various banks and eventually a business telecommunications company. My previous role was a combination of Project Manager, Technical Services Manager, Engineer and Pre/Post-Sales account management.
Those years involved being really thrown in at the deep end. I’m talking 36+ hour straight projects. I’m talking planning, project managing, and installing systems across four continents for PLCs. I’m talking about pacifying people who have been screwed over time and time again – and making things right.
So in March 2008 I decided to take that baggage and if I was going to haul arse, it was going to be my own profit margin at the end of the job.
Typically, ProAction Networks serves three purposes:
- Plan, Install, Optimise & Support services for business telephone, call centre and VoIP systems.
- Web Services, including hosting, design, integration and promotion
- Ancillary services such as SIP trunking (business making telephone calls over data links), IT services, troubleshooting and asset management.
Mainly it’s myself doing the lion’s share, but as a company we maintain a small trusted group of contractors who bring a broader, more specialised force to tackle any problems which may arise.
In my spare time, I try to live a little and spend time with my wife and boy. I run cross country, collect vintage Apple and Unix-based equipment, design unique computer hardware.”
