Scheduling Demo
Larkum Scheduling Demo
Built to model ambulance workforce planning workflows with rota coverage, leave handling, and recovery logic. Open the live demo.
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IT Infrastructure and Support Profile
Richard Harrison
I am building a move into IT with a focus on infrastructure, hosting, automation, and practical support tooling. My recent work combines Laravel platform development, self-hosting, monitoring, and secure access workflows with a strong operational background from healthcare and military service.
Infrastructure & Hosting
PHP / Laravel
Monitoring & Alerting
Automation & Tooling
Security & Access Control
Self-hosting
Recent Highlights
What I've Built Recently
MFA and account security
Built multi-factor authentication flows, recovery controls, and admin-side reset tooling for safer account access.
SSO provider capability
Added central SSO functionality to support trusted external services with controlled client management.
Monitoring and uptime workflows
Implemented uptime checks, alerting, staged outage confirmation, and dashboard visibility for operational services.
Practical admin automation
Delivered ticketing, invite flows, feature flags, lifecycle automation, and maintenance actions for day-to-day operations.
About Me
Operational background, practical mindset
I currently work in the ambulance service as part of a team specialising in pre-term and sick babies. That environment has built a strong mindset around responsibility, teamwork, calm decision-making, and getting details right when they matter.
IT has always been a serious hobby for me. For a long time I kept it that way after being advised that hobbies should stay hobbies rather than become work. I now want to change that and move the technical work I have been building around hosting, infrastructure, automation, and application support into a professional IT role.
I am also a veteran of the British Army, and I now volunteer with the Army Cadet Force. That background continues to shape how I approach discipline, reliability, and supporting people properly.
Technical Snapshot
Skills and working knowledge
Infrastructure
Self-hosting, uptime monitoring, alerting, backups, service reliability, operational troubleshooting, and practical homelab administration.
Hosting
Shared hosting deployment, cPanel familiarity, domain and service management, HTTPS enforcement, and production-minded maintenance workflows.
Development
Laravel, PHP, Blade, SQL/MariaDB, admin tooling, secure user flows, ticketing systems, automation endpoints, and workflow-focused web applications.
Security
MFA, SSO, role-based access, secure invite flows, session-aware account handling, bot protection, and privacy-conscious public forms.
Platforms
Working knowledge of Proxmox, WHMCS, Docker, Linux, and broader hosting/admin panel environments used around self-hosting and service management.
Supporting Knowledge
Prior knowledge of Flutter and mobile app development for iOS and Android, kept as supporting capability rather than the main focus of this site.
Recent Practical Experience
Evidence from recent work
Secure access and account management
Implemented MFA onboarding, challenge flows, backup codes, invitation prompts, and admin recovery controls to improve account security without blocking normal use.
SSO and identity capability
Added SSO client management and identity-provider style behaviour so external services can trust a central authentication source.
Monitoring and operations
Built uptime checks, manual validation actions, downtime and recovery alerting, and dashboard visibility with operational controls suited to real service maintenance.
Workflow automation and admin tooling
Delivered ticketing lifecycles, inbound email handling, feature toggles, invite flows, and practical maintenance tooling designed for repeatable admin use.
Project Showcase
Practical work and delivery examples
Scheduling Demo
Laravel Platform
Hampshire Low-Carb Community
Member-focused Laravel platform with secure account handling, admin workflows, gated content, and practical support tooling for ongoing management. Visit the live site.
Operations
Operational Check System
Designed to support repeatable operational checks with better visibility, clear task flow, and less friction for day-to-day users.
Infra
Home-Lab and Self-Hosting
Ongoing hands-on work around service hosting, monitoring, backups, controlled updates, and operational reliability across self-managed systems.
Health Tracking
WeightTrack
Simple progress tracking focused on clear everyday use, straightforward reporting, and a lightweight interface. Open the live site.
Public Website
Totton Carnival Website
Public-facing event website built around clarity, accessible information, and practical visitor-focused content presentation.
What I Bring
Operational discipline shaped by ambulance service and military experience.
Practical systems thinking focused on reliability, supportability, and clear user flows.
A security-aware approach to authentication, permissions, and public-facing forms.
Comfort working across hosting constraints, admin tooling, and real maintenance tasks.
A habit of building things that are useful in day-to-day operations, not just technically interesting.
A genuine long-term interest in IT that is now becoming my professional direction.
Contact Me
Get in touch about roles, opportunities, or a copy of my CV
If you would like to discuss an IT role, ask about my recent work, or request a copy of my CV, use the contact form and I will reply directly.