Kcom Group apprentice Thomas Herring has won this year's Microsoft Apprentice of the Year Award in the Large Employer category out of hundreds of apprentices employed by Microsoft and its partner businesses.\
The young software engineer attended a parliamentary reception at the House of Commons where he was presented with his award by Nadhim Zahawi MP, Member of the No 10 Policy Board with special responsibility for business and the economy.
Thomas, who is based at KCOM Group's Hull office and works in its IT team, began his apprenticeship in October 2013.
"Being able to study and work at the same time has been a great benefit to me and my development. I've been helping deliver a wide variety of projects including for a national power services supplier, a customer portal project and a corporate web application that gave me experience working to a budget and a deadline," said Thomas.
Another apprentice at KCOM Group, Liam Walker, was also a finalist in the same category of the awards and was named runner-up behind Thomas.