CDFA logoNo more hunting for "that cord" after IT inventory

Client

Community Development Finance Association (cdfa) is a London based trade association. They represent organisations that provide loans and support, to help charities and social enterprises create prosperity in their communities.

The challenge

Over an 8 year period the cdfa office accumulated a filing cabinet of spare bits (cords, mice, keyboards, laptops, software disks etc). They needed a volunteer to identify what was worth keeping, what needed to be kept and what could be recycled to a charity or thrown away.

Our help

Organised IT equipment

The cdfa had a good number of responses to their request for help and they finally chose Dominik Kasprzyk, an iT4C volunteer with over 4 years of IT experience. Dominik spent almost 3 full days at their office helping them to organise their IT equipment and according to Operations Director Jules Mann, they found Dominik's help extremely useful. He added a lot of value by recommending some changes in computer user stations and also testing equipment that had dead batteries, but still functioned once those were charged up.

The results

  • Added value by recommending changes
  • Left the cdfa with a very clear picture of its IT inventory and comfort that everything was current and worked.
  • Efficiencies: no wasted time testing or hunting for 'that cord' - all is clearly organised and labelled.
  • Tremendous value: it would have cost over £1000 to have a commercial IT service provider or consultant carry out the work.

What our client said

Dominik quietly got on with the project at hand, asked questions when necessary, was easy to communicate with and managed to organise a lot of equipment with a minimum of fuss. He was obviously capable of completely sophisticated computer programming work, which meant he brought a great amount of knowledge and expertise to this task, and meant I could trust his expert decision making on our behalf. He was committed to finishing what we'd asked for, even when it meant coming in for an extra half day. Dominik was a pleasure to work with.

Jules Mann, Operations Director, Community Development Finance Association

25th August 2010