Simon Beevers Email & Phone Number

Bramshall, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Enabling, empowering and contributing to Vitrifi’s vision and mission by:* Being the change agent for network solutions.* Actively participating in industry forums.* Identifying trends and patterns for discussion.

Represeting Vitrifi Limited (AS211393) and supplying guidance and suggestions to the LINX staff.

Independently supplying guidance and suggestions to the LINX staff.

Representing Glide (AS42689/AS48961) and supplying guidance and suggestions to the LINX staff.

Representing PGGWGN (AS25178) and supplying guidance and suggestions to the LINX staff.

Uttoxeter, England, United Kingdom

Bramshall, England, United Kingdom

The Working Group objective to ensure meaningful resident consultation and representation to promote effective participation in the management of the Management Company facilities. The Working Group is not a decision-making body. Rather it is expected to make recommendations and represent the interests of the Members of the Management Company.

Provide pre-sales technical consultation as a domain specialist (SME) for the design, engineering, sale, and implementation of sophisticated products, applications, and solutions.Collaborate with sales teams, vendors, and industry partners in assessing potential application of our products ensuring that optimum systems solutions are provided to new and existing customers.Develop and execute technical sales plans and proposals (RFP, RFQ) to grow Juniper's business in a driven and opportunity-filled sales environment.Originate and architect detailed design, engineering, and implementation specifications for next-generation networks and solutions.Use your outstanding industry and product knowledge to engage and influence customer technology strategies through showcasing Juniper technologies during technical sales presentations, product demonstrations, proof of concept, and trial engagements.Build, develop, and maintain strong professional relationships with customer IT decision-makers and industry partner community.Deliver training and support to our industry partners and customer engineers.Continuously learn and stay ahead of the industry and competitive solutions, products, and services.

ASN 42689 (and ASN 48961)CURRENT ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES• Manage the Senior Network Engineering team who are responsible for Glide Group’s:•• national network•• metro networks•• internal OSS and corporate networks•• and provide 4th line escalation for all of Glide Group’s customer networks.• Lead technical design process for the analysis, definition, and continued development of the end-to-end Layer 2 & Layer 3 Architecture for the Glide Group.• Own the architecture process and lead development of Glide Groups growing networkinfrastructure through published architecture design documents.• Lead development of technical support documentation and training to staff.• Lead extensive lab testing of new architectures, platforms, Internet working software.• Negotiate and lead the technical relationship with vendors and carriers.• Performs network modelling and capacity planning.• Provides expert networking and telecommunications consulting, guidance, and strategic planning.• Interprets business requirements into technical frameworks, and provides technology roadmapsgoverned by strategic direction, business requirements, and alignment with all other technologyportfolios.PROJECTS:• Managerial lead on:•• a centralised group wide firewall platform.•• improving the existing security standards by deploying BCP38.•• deploying an new OSS network.• Creating a new regional PoP architecture. Including a PoP refresh program.• Improving the current customer fibre termination in the access network.• Scaling national network links from 10G to 100G.• HLD and LLDs for tender responses and customer requests.• Refreshing external BGP policies.• A technical and architectural contributor to:•• Evolving the layer3 PE architecture.•• Creating a new disaggregated customer termination architecture.•• Customer CPE for business product termination.•• PON in the access network.•• Metro access refresh and redesign.

Stafford, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

ASN AS25178As the IP/Network Architect, I;* Lead technical design process for the analysis, definition, and continued development of the end-to-end Layer 2 & Layer 3 Architecture for Optify. * Am the technical design authority, work with other team members and groups to develop scalable network designs, solutions and policy recommendations. * Lead the systems key platform development strategy, provide guidance to network planning and operations groups. * Lead the technical internal product groups by identifying and presenting their network-impacting requirements to the service activations and the network operations teams. * Own the architecture process and lead development of Optify’s growing network infrastructure through published architecture design documents. * Lead development of technical support documentation and training to staff. * Lead extensive lab testing of new architectures, platforms, internetworking software. * Negotiate and lead the technical relationship with vendors and carriers. * Lead the design and development of SLA’s and KPI’s for Optify products. * Perform network modelling and capacity planning. * Provide expert networking and telecommunications consulting, guidance, and strategic planning. * Interpret business requirements into technical frameworks, and provides technology roadmaps governed by strategic direction, business requirements, and alignment with all other technology portfolios. * Keep abreast of network and telecommunications vendors and how they are competing and impacting the market. * Define and lead Optify’s technology planning and roadmaps.

Stafford, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

ASN AS25178Specialising in:* Technical design authority for the PCCW Global Networks (UK) Plc fibre network (AS25178)* Network Scaling and TransformationFormerly Keycom and Relish Networks PlcIP Network design with input from Network Manager and CTO3rd line support for the Operations Team.IP related configurations changes, move, add, change and delete, fault analysis and resolution activities.Support all IP related configurations changes (move, add, change, delete) across the various switches, routers and firewalls.Perform diagnostic tests to resolve IP related problem; coordinate resolution of configuration and connectivity problems with support and/or equipment vendors.Escalate product related problems to support equipment vendors and coordinate problem resolution in compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs).Develop, customise and implement Methods of Procedures for effective IP-Network Management and problem diagnostic and resolution.Build a toolset with other teams to maintain, monitor and proactively support the growth of the core networkLead in the technical design of new product integration into existing architectureReview and approve related software and hardware upgrades in IP components and support SW and HW.Lead the architecture of the network and grow IP eco-system and coordinate growth activities with the rest of the operations team Lead and support company technical documentationAct as a resource for other teams requiring technical design support for customer solutionsDevelop and execute platform performance improvement initiatives with the rest of the operations team.Provide support to other departments usage of core network and system infrastructure.

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

ASN AS6871Specialising in:* WBMC shared broadband support* Core transit and peering (both public and private)* Local / internal CDN connectivity and working with CDN providers3rd line support for the Operations Team.Being the escalation point for the Operations Support Teams.Raising and implementing change controls for standard changes; such as BGP updates as well as maintenance tasks such as upgrading firmware on switches and routers.Change control peer review and authorisation to sign off change controls for implementation on behalf of the operational team.Reviewing and updating Operational guidelines and procedures for the core and DSL edge network and implementing new guidance where required.Ensuring Operational monitoring is correct for my specialised areas within Plusnet.Provisioning WBMC hostlinks / interconnects and working with BT to bring them online.Working closely with the Senior Network Team to help deliver projects, especially with regards to the implementation and monitoring of new and existing hardware.Responding to the internal problem system and resolving them within the OLAsUpdating the Operational Team, by providing training and supporting internal residential call centre trainers and business call centre agents via lighting talks / Q&A sessions and presentations on my specialised areas of support within Plusnet.Working with suppliers and vendors to ensure any problems are resolved correctly and implement action plans to stop issues reoccurring.Peering Co-ordinator for Plusnet’s LINX, LoNAP and private peerings.Projects:Updating Plusnet’s 10Gb WBMC hostlinks to a more optimal design so that we use the capacity more effectively.Working with the Senior team to bring the CDN providers platforms into Plusnet and then continually work with the CDN providers to ensure a high quality experience to the Plusnet customer base.Scoping of the operational monitoring requirements for the new platforms and systems.

Derby, United Kingdom

ASN AS205003rd line support for the Operations Team.Investigate and recommend ways to reduce the incoming ticket load by using root cause analysis.Assist Senior Systems and Network Engineers on project based work.Day to day support of operational in-house systems.Raising and implementing various change controls.Change control peer review on behalf of the operational team.Using DPI devices to prioritise traffic across the broadband network, including using the platform to manage partner bandwidth utilisation and protocol prioritisation, as they request it.Monitoring, upgrading and maintaining the in house systems.Support the Sales Department when expertise is required in proposals or presentations to prospective and existing customers by providing up to date data on customer usage, recommendations on technologies and answering any technical questions customers may have during the sales process.Participating in the On Call rota.Managing IP Assignments to customers and keeping Griffins RIPE records up to date.Maintaining peering relationships and adding new ones for Griffin.Responsibilities:Ensuring Daily Checks are performed each day and reviewing them periodically for potential improvement and wherever possible automated to increase efficiency and attempt to prevent duplication.Ownership and escalation point of all network and system support tickets logged on the Allurian support desk and delegating / organising the workload for the Operation Support Engineer team to ensure ticket SLAs are met.Ownership of the Alerts board and ensuring that alerts are dealt with promptly based on SLA / OLA.Ensure operational support processes are properly followed, including communicating with staff and customers about planned maintenance, emergency maintenance or network incidents.Being the internal point of contact once incidents are reported to suppliers and ensuring they are chased for RFO/RFIs.Training and mentoring the new graduates.

Derby, United Kingdom

ASN AS20500Creating high level and low level design documents for projects.Liaise between the relevant departments and 3rd party suppliers to complete the projects.Maintaining peering relationships and adding new ones for Griffin on LINX, LoNAP, AMS-IX and DE-CIX.Responsibilities:Managing the Griffin Operations Projects registerTraining and mentoring the Junior EngineerProjects:Installing and deploying various new platforms Scoping the Operations monitoring requirements for the platforms and setting up the various alerts, monitors and thresholds within the various monitoring platforms.Decommissioning legacy platforms; including services and whole data centres deployments, making sure that all traffic has moved over gracefully with no customer impact.

Derby, United Kingdom

ASN AS205003rd line support.Logging, monitoring and responding to cases on the ticket system.Producing weekly and monthly reports on our Network Utilisation for all platforms including WBMC, internal and customer SANs, Power Consumption.Basic MySQL database and General Server administration (Windows and Linux).Creating platforms on the network infrastructure (Juniper, Redback and Brocade) for our customers specific traffic; i.e. IPVPNs, hosted firewalls.Using DPI devices to prioritise traffic across the broadband network, including using the platform to manage partner bandwidth utilisation and protocol prioritisation, as they request it.Monitoring, upgrading and maintaining the in house systems.Helping the Senior Engineers with projects and being remote hands on site during upgrade works.Managing IP Assignments to customers and keeping Griffins RIPE records up to date.Maintaining peering relationships and adding new ones for Griffin on LINX, LoNAP, AMS-IX and DE-CIX.Projects:Expanding existing L2TP wholesale services with basic load balancing and round-robin connections depending on customer requirements.

Newton-Le-Willows

1st, 2nd and 3rd line supportLogging, monitoring and responding to calls on the Service DeskOne of the many liaisons between us the 3rd party and the customers IT Service DesksChecking customer devices (i.e. CyberGuard firewalls, McAfee ePO Servers, Windows Servers, Symantec / Vertias Backup Exec ... etc) on a daily, weekly and monthly basis and produce reports accordinglyMonitoring and releasing emails from SMTP Proxies such as Clearswift for SMTP, Mimecast, MailMarshal … etcCreating rules and scenarios for products like Clearswift for SMTP and Web, Mimecast, MailMarshal, WebMarshal … etcTroubleshooting networks involving various vendor devices; routing, switching and firewalls (i.e. Cisco and 3Com)Server monitoring via Microsoft RDP, VNC, Ipswitch What’s Up and other softwareAntivirus monitoring (McAfee, Trend Micro, Sophos … etc)Monitoring, upgrading and maintaining the in house systems (servers, network, workstations … etc)

Liverpool, United Kingdom

1st and 2nd line support providing Desktop Support and general Server Administration.Daily tasks included troubleshoot everyday issues, rebuilding PC's and creating images for the new hardware

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