Chris Mcclelland

THIRD LINE ENGINEER

What I do at Q2Q:

I’m a Senior Support Engineer here at Q2Q, I help look after escalation tickets, critical tickets, projects and often a bit of code 😉

Background and Achievements

Growing up I was always around IT due to my old man being in the industry. At 7 years old, I built my first website (I cheated and used Word to convert to HTML!). This was my ‘gateway’ into straight coding and by 18 I had become fluent in HTML, PHP, CSS, SQL, C++, C#, Java, Javascript and various other languages as a bit of a hobbyist. I’ve been the lead developer on various Indie games and bespoke business applications because of this, finding myself up at 1AM telling myself, “I’ll do one more line of code” (It’s never one more line of code).

Over the years, I’ve found a real passion in working with servers and the Azure environment, getting involved in numerous data migrations into SharePoint, Mail migrations from on-prem exchange into 365, migrations from on-prem business solutions into hybrid or full cloud solutions the list honestly goes on.

I spent a few years as the IT manager for a couple of businesses but really missed getting into the nitty gritty side of getting stuck into a troubleshooting session, so I stepped back to surround myself in what I’m passionate about, the technology and how to fix it when it inevitably goes wrong!

Hobbies and Interests

Hobbies? Cycling! Cycling, cycling and cycling! Joking aside… Aside from cycling, I’d say I probably enjoy…Cycling? Ok, I promise, that’s the last time I’ll say it! I also enjoy coding, setting myself little “could I build that with code?” projects at home. I really enjoy guitar, drawing, Dungeons & Dragons (But only when the dice isn’t rolling a 1) and the occasional game on PC (PC Master race! 😉)

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LORNA’S DOGS! Oh my god, they actually melt my heart. But also, the people. Everyone is so friendly, everyone helps one another and it’s nice to be somewhere where I feel like I’m just being productive with my friends. They say you have to enjoy what you do, right? Well, that’s the best way I can explain it.

A Fire Truck. Yes, a fire truck, not the person that puts the fire out, but literally the truck. Don’t ask!!

I love writing reviews! I have somehow accumulated over 11 Million views on my photos and almost 400,000 Views/likes across my written reviews on google maps.

Athens in Greece. I love history, and while I was there, I saw the temple of Poseidon, the oldest theatre in the world, the acropolis and so many other historic sites and places.

You know that movie, ‘Click’? He has a remote that lets him mess with time. I want that. The remote can be my superpower.

Driven, reflective & loyal

I moved from London to the south coast, and then the south coast all the way to the northwest coast (Poulton-le-Fylde).

Cycling, D&D, Games, Horror Movies, Spending time with friends, coding, visiting historical landmarks and more.

Black Stone Cherry

100% has to be life is a highway.

Baking and patisserie… I did a course!

Settle into the role within Q2Q and become integrated with the team, helping build and improve on systems we already have in place. I’d also love to get my Comptia Network Security + under my belt!

Genuinely, Artificial Intelligence. I definitely do not have my own Llama server at home (Basically what ChatGPT was formed from) with my own datasets built into it. *Insert suspicious eyes here*

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