Peter O’Brien
Head of IT, Fairhursts
Having joined Fairhursts straight from school on an initial three month contract.
Pete now holds nearly 4 decades of time at the company and during this time he has undertaken many different duties from architecture to finance, finally finding his niche in 2010 as the company’s IT Manager. In this role he manages, maintains, and troubleshoots the practice’s seven servers and 80-user network covering offices in Manchester, Southampton and Cambridge.
On a sunny day, you can usually find Pete cruising on his motorcycle, and if it’s rush hour, you may even see him ride past you on his bike, performing his favourite traffic filtering hack with the same big smile he wears around the office.