Simon Newton
Technical Project Manager II at Akamai Technologies
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Industry
- Internet
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Simon Newton's Overview
- Current
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- Technical Project Manager II at Akamai Technologies
- CTO at NSB Radio
- Past
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- Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Specific Media / Myspace / Xumo
- Director at Plexus Global Media LTD
- Engineering at Move Networks
- Technical Manager at mBlox Inc
- Network Manager at Worldspeed
- IT Engineer at British American Tobacco
- IT Trainer at British American Tobacco
- Recommendations
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22 people have recommended Simon
- Connections
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297 connections
- Websites
Simon Newton's Summary
17 years of networking experience, from physical layer through to application. 7 years of wireless, SMS and financial transaction experience, 10+ years of media, streaming, broadcast management and content delivery. Published security researcher. Specialising in infrastructure management, technical management, project management and operational management as well as design, implementation, integration, operation and maintenance of high availability global distributed networks, content delivery networks (Akamai Certified), messaging gateways, financial transaction systems, cloud computing and high bandwidth content delivery systems with a focus on security, rich features and positive customer experience.
Specialties
Team building, Project management, Financial networks, Streaming media, Leadership, High availability networks, Content, CDN, Cloud, Distribution, Wireless (SMS, PSMS, WAP, GSM, iDEN, UMTS, CDMA, TDMA, SS7, UCP, SMPP, SMASI, MSIP, XML/SOAP, MM7/MMS, 2G/3G/4G), Media, h264, mpeg, VP8, ogg, TCP/IP, SIP, Routing, Oracle/RAC, MYSQL, Postgres, LAMP stack, Linux, BSD/*NIX, Apache/Apache2, Java 2EE, Tomcat, Jboss, PHP, Perl, VOIP, Asterisk, SSL, SSH, CDN, Cache, integration, Packet debugging, Kernel
Simon Newton's Experience
Technical Project Manager II
Akamai Technologies
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AKAM; Internet industry
November 2011 – Present (3 months) London, United Kingdom
CTO
NSB Radio
January 2002 – Present (10 years 1 month)
Overseeing a team of skilled developers, web engineers and graphical designers to provide the global media infrastructure and user interfaces behind the international award winning NSBRadio and its sister online music community. Designed and implemented enterprise level, globally diverse, content distribution and live broadcast network including partnership with AOL networks and Apple iTunes. Network fully secured and supportive of outside broadcasts, from events such as Glade festival & Defcon as well as some of the worlds premier night entertainment venues. Implemented, maintained and improved online community portal with ~100,000 unique visitors per month and ~50 million hits per month. Contributed to the achievement of winning the "best radio station" award, "best website" award along with our artists receiving "best radio show" awards, at the Breakspoll international music awards in 2008, 2009, 2010 and again in 2011!
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Specific Media / Myspace / Xumo
November 2010 – November 2011 (1 year 1 month)
Infrastructure Engineering for a leading global media company and one of the worlds most famous social networks. Involved in the early development of the MyspaceTV platform and online video platforms. Delivered CapEx and OpEx planing for infrastructure, sourced and implemented massively scalable, cloud based infrastructure to support the platform as well as ensuring smooth content delivery via partnerships with major content delivery networks. This role also encompassed research and development for adaptive bitrate media delivery across multiple devices, where the team and I developed full DVR and 'catch up TV' functionality using IOS devices (such as iPad and iPhone) without additional plugins or apps.
Engineering
Move Networks
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry
April 2010 – November 2010 (8 months)
A challenging new role in the IPTV world. Making a change from the mobile space and moving into the broadcast media space while sticking with my extensive experience and interest in streaming media and content delivery. Sadly, Move Networks chose to shut down all UK operations in November 2010.
Technical Manager
mBlox Inc
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry
January 2003 – September 2009 (6 years 9 months)
Technical Manager for the worlds largest cellular billing and content delivery network, handling network operations, technical project management and 3rd line escalations of the enterprise Linux based network, including a Java2EE/Tomcat/Jboss application layer. Responsible for network operations, cross functional design assurance, quality assurance, acceptance testing, production implementation, customer integration and carrier integrations, including SMS, PSMS, MMS, ENUM and SS7. Protocols such as SMPP, SOAP, SMASI, XML, MSIP, UCP, CIMD as well as global operator specific transactional and subscription billing interfaces. Ensuring high availability, high volume capacity for messaging and financial transactions.
Network Manager
Worldspeed
January 2000 – February 2002 (2 years 2 months)
Plan, source, implement and support core network and telecoms infrastructure. PABX systems, Windows NT domain controllers, fire walling, facilitation of internal database information to customer facing internet systems, network infrastructure and installations. Sourced and implemented logistical software systems.
IT Engineer
British American Tobacco
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BAT; Tobacco industry
January 1999 – January 2000 (1 year 1 month)
Operating in the republic of Uzbekistan, out of B.A.T's Tashkent and Samarkand facilities by offering 1st and 2nd line IT support to the country wide IT infrastructure. This included network engineering of wide area networks as well as support and training in their use. Also involved installations and support of desktop PC’s, servers, Cat-5 cabling, wide area networking, Microwave and international IP data links, as well as world wide Lotus notes email/Database systems.
IT Trainer
British American Tobacco
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BAT; Tobacco industry
January 1996 – February 1997 (1 year 2 months)
Operating in the Republic of Uzbekistan out of B.A.T's Tashkent and Samarkand facilities, to offer training to staff in the use of the core IT infrastructure and Internet systems to local staff not versed in leading edge technologies. Challenges included cross cultural communication and general state of technological awareness in the country at that time.
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