About Me...
INTRODUCTION: My name is Nick Lauro, I live on the Wirral and I have been working as an IT professional since 1999. Being a bit of an IT 'Jack-of-all-trades', I suppose I could be classed as an 'IT Consultant'. However; I prefer to use the term 'IT Multi-Tasker' as a more accurate description. So how exactly did I get into the IT game?
Up until the turn of the 21st century, I had been a professional musician working in the entertainment and music industries - though my involvement with computing wasn't always that far away. Long before Windows existed in the home, I had dabbled (for fun) with a bit of programming in the BASIC language on the ancient Amstrad PCW machine - considered state-of-the-art back in the day!
Despite my best efforts behind Alan Sugar's flagship black screen littered with luminous green text, the call of the music industry proved to be a stronger temptation to which I succumbed, hook, line and sinker for many years. Unfortunately, due to various factors, I was unable to spend as much time away from home as the music industry demanded of me and by the end of the 1990's I had been bitten by the computer bug, courtesy of one Mr William Gates and his 'Windows' operating systems.
After successfully retraining as an IT support technician I was able to venture out into the world of industry specialising in Microsoft technologies. This took me into companies such as Tetra Pak, Via Networks, Connect Internet Solutions, Cable & Wireless, Telewest and eventually Tulip International where I became IT Manager supplying IT services to three manufacturing sites in the north-west.
Today, my services are retained on a part-time basis by two small business' working within the music industry on Merseyside, with the rest of my time spent involved in ad-hoc IT work. With my background and experience, I am always ready to offer my services and advice to whom ever may call upon me, from home user to small business and beyond. I don't claim to know everything about computers (if I did then this website would be surplus to requirement) and I won't always have the answer to every problem. Saying that, I am quite tenacious as regards to finding solutions; and what I can't sort out myself I am more than happy to pass onto a network of acquaintances and colleagues who are qualified in other areas I am less familiar with.
So what exactly can I do for you? Read more about my IT experience to find out >>>
