Matthew Bennett - About me

My name is Matthew Bennett.

I am the proud owner of MBIT Training Ltd - a leading training company operating across the UK.

At the time of writing this I have been working in the academic / education sector as an IT Teacher / Lecturer / Instructor / Trainer (call it what you will and yes, they are all very different!) for 14 years.

I hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS, also QTS Induction), also as an Institute for Learning member with Qualified Teaching & Learning Status.

I have been a Community Governor for a local Worcester major Secondary school for six years, advising on ICT, Curriculum and Quality Development matters.

I have advised FE colleges on Quality Development matters, also worked as an Advanced Practitioner for Gloucester College with special focus on their use of SharePoint for internal staff documentation. I advise on taxonomy, SharePoint Development and end-user (staff) training.

I am a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft Partner and have been for four years now. I hold Small Business specialism and also can advise you on sales and pre-sales matters. If you need to upgrade your IT systems you have come to the right man!

I am extremely passionate about developing IT skills - IT is the lifeblood of business and it is absolutely essential that it is used for good, and correctly.

My specialism is actually Network Security. I am pleased to be able to offer official CompTIA courses directly through MBIT Training but also work with other larger Microsoft Official Courseware provider (licenced to run MOC mid-tier courses).

I am also keen to offer end-user training - Microsoft Office, Software Development and Network / Security courses. This can be delivered through the Certiport brand.

I am also extremely passionate about deployment. Why? I once, about ten years ago helped out for a school in Coventry where the school had purchased 50 Dell PCs (the same model). Picture it, if you will - the school had just run the summer exams. The school hall was still full of exam tables. I had been asked to help the Network Manager - we set up all of the PCs, one on each table. The deployment server (a RIS server) was set up on the stage. We switched on all of the PCs - they were waiting at PXE boot phase and we pressed the 'GO!' button on the server. After 3 minutes all of the PCs rebooted and loaded XP at the same time. That is power.

Since then, I have always been excited to be involved in IT deployments. I now am happy to support System Center - Operations Manager, System Center Configuration Manager, Windows Deployment Services and Intune.