Mike Simon is a Global Solutions Architect at Ping Identity. He possess expertise in management, leadership, enterprise architecture, strategy, identity management and 16 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Mike’s identity protocol design and deployment knowledge are in depth and second to none. He is able to identify points of leverage in architecture to find ways through which teams can improve their core identity capabilities. Mike is able to communicate these ideas to hands on tech audiences all the way up to key decisions for senior management. This combination makes Mike a major asset to any team he works with.", "Michael is one of the sharpest guys I have ever worked with. He is very detail oriented which allowed him to understand complex systems from the get go. He worked tirelessly in creating real time monitoring, debugging and reporting system for next generation authentication system used by multiple mobile and web apps. He is brilliant from both architecture and development perspective. Architecturally he assisted in consulting on various enterprise initiative. His depth of knowledge in authentication and authorization standards was key in those projects. He also architected risk based policies in next generation authentication system and completed end to end development, testing and deployment to production. His other key development contributions were in test bed implementation for next generation authentication system which allowed debugging, implementing new feature and reproducing issues. It not only saved thousands of dollars to the enterprise but also provided rapid prototyping capabilities. He had been involved in several production deployment and kept keen eye on dependencies which helped avoiding issues surfacing. Along with that he was great help in verifying the production releases methodically. I would like to specially point out that Michael is a highly responsible technical resource. His handover documentation is the best I have ever seen. He went above and beyond in producing the documentation which will help the team tremendously in future. Michael is one of the most valuable resource in any team is is working with.", and "Michael J. Simon is brilliant technical resource who also possesses great leadership skills along with fine business acumen. A great team player, who has exhibited his knowledge and expert capabilities on numerous occasions. He developed a collaborative model of working amongst our team of infrastructure engineers so that they're able to see and better understand each others projects and finally come up with an interoperability amongst different products and technologies. He is extremely helpful in terms of technical as well as non-technical queries one may bring before him. In most cases he proactively digs out the relevant information to help people get started on their projects. Very dedicated and hard working."