Patrick Hillyer

Patrick Hillyer has extensive work experience in the technology operations field. Patrick is currently the Head of Technology Operations at Homeprotect Home Insurance since April 2021. Prior to this, Patrick worked at Avantia for over seven years.

At Avantia, Patrick held various roles, including Technology Operations Manager from January 2019 to April 2021. In this role, they successfully delivered key projects such as the implementation of a new Head Office IT design, Datacentre core network re-design, and VMware vSphere upgrade.

Before their promotion to the manager position, Patrick served as an IT Infrastructure Engineer/SysAdmin from August 2017 to January 2019. Patrick progressed rapidly in a high-performing team and handled support issues from 1st to 3rd line support. Patrick also led significant projects like Datacenter migration, on-premise SharePoint farm migration to SharePoint Online, and server and storage refreshes.

Patrick's career at Avantia started as a Senior Executive in the Underwriting department in January 2014 and they later transitioned to the role of Team Manager in September 2015.

Overall, Patrick Hillyer has demonstrated their expertise in technology operations and project management throughout their career.

Patrick Hillyer received their education primarily at Glyn Technology School from 2003 to 2010. However, it is not specified whether they obtained a degree or pursued any specific field of study during this period. Later, they attended the University of Northampton from 2010 to 2013, earning a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Human Geography with Popular Music.