Knipe Bolland was set up in 2015 by Karl Bolland. Karl has worked his full career in IT and has created simple and complexed solutions using different stacks of technologies in the education and business sectors.

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Having started his career as an IT technician in a secondary school, he worked his way up to Assistant Network Manager before moving to an e-learning role supporting staff and students on e-learning technologies in the classroom. During this time he also acted as AV manager meaning he managed all the lighting/sound systems, projection systems, AV systems for theatre performances, its use in the classroom and school.

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Karl then moved to Frogtrade Ltd an international software company, beginning by supporting clients but soon moving onto various roles including Team Leader and Design Team Manager before reaching the position of Product Manager - Learning Platforms. This role led Karl to work closely with all sizes of schools as well as working with many national and international corporations such as Google, Apple and Microsoft.

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Karl then moved to work as a Programme Manager for Oasis Community Learning, one of the largest UK academy chains. During his time at Oasis Karl worked with academies catering to all age groups and also worked with national and regional teams supporting the academies. Karl was one of the leads on a project developing and implementing an international intranet that would allow all users in the UK academies, national London office and regional offices to communicate. The project also involved the global branches of the Oasis charity with the aim to allow users to seamlessly communicate and share resources and information from any device anywhere in the world using Microsoft 365 and SharePoint.

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The business has continued to grow allowing Karl development his Solution Architect skills which allows him to support his clients with large all areas of  Microsoft 365 offering including, migrations, project management, implementation, deployment and traning.

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Karl also offers technology other solutions which can include IT support, website and home automation planning and implementaiton.