About

About

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Welcome! It’s great to see you…

I’m Philip Ross, welcome to my little corner of the internet…

This site is a place for me to share anything, and everything.
It’s a place where I’ll document my ideas, share updates on how I’ve achieved something I think is neat, explain technical details in (hopefully) a simple way, and wishfully a place for me to share things with the community that I’ve been working on.

What is The Digital Desk?

This site is designed to be a technical blog and whilst it’s very much in it’s infancy, I wanted to be as broad as I can with what I work on.

I’m intending to use this as a space to share content from an IT Administrator perspective focussing on Digital Worker Experience technologies.
Examples include:

  • Apple Devices Management
  • Zoom Communications technology administration
  • Scripting and API integration (mainly with a focus on PowerShell)

I’m not aiming to be an oracle, I don’t profess to be an expert by any stretch of the imagination, there are many people out there who know a great deal more than me!
My ambition here is to challenge my own way of thinking, document my achievements - and failures - in the hope it’s useful to others.

Who am I?

My working life started in supermarket retail. I had, and still have, a huge passion for Formula One, and hoped to have a career within the motorsport industry.

However, life had other plans! Around the time of progressing my education to university, my learning style changed dramatically. No longer could I get a grasp on things quickly simply by reading a textbook. I needed to do it, to understand it.

I had fully fledged into a kinesthetic learner.

This is where IT really came into the frame. I’d always had a penchant for IT, but had never really considered making a career within the IT industry. Out of the blue, there was an opportunity to apply for a role on the internal IT service desk, which I grabbed with both hands. It was the best career decision I’ve taken so far, and I quickly progressed from Junior 1st Line Analyst through to Senior 2nd Line Analyst, before applying for a secondment into a 3rd Line delivery role.

And that’s where I am today! My day-to-day involves working on various projects across a wide breadth of systems within the EUC/DWE space.

Thanks for being here…

I’m hoping you find something useful on this site as it grows.

If you find something here that helps you tackle a problem in a new way, or squash a stubborn bug, then I’m achieving what I set out to.

If you want to talk further, you can find me at: