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Simon is an infrastructure specialist and systems analyst who has been involved with Virtual IT since its inception. Simon has been responsible for the strategy, design and building of the product infrastructure, as well as the ongoing product enhancements and evolution required to enable the Virtual IT solution to deliver its critical service
levels to its customers. Simon has extensive experience in analysing business IT and enterprise hosting requirements and building cost-effective platforms for clients. Simon was responsible for designing and implementing one of the world’s first true Hybrid Cloud platforms. Simon was also responsible for Virtual IT’s ISMS programme, resulting in our ISO 27001 certification.
Prior to Virtual IT, Simon was Senior Systems Engineer at NTT/Verio, which at the time was the world’s largest web hosting company. He was instrumental in building some of NTT/Verio’s largest Windows-based enterprise web hosting solutions and he also designed and built the Europe-wide backup solution to protect customer systems throughout NTT/Verio’s European hosting centres.
Simon was invited to be on the Judging Panel of the UK IT Industry Awards and also has a keen interest in Education and how IT is taught in our schools.
Simon is a Chartered IT Professional, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for IT.
