Simon Bisson

IT Consultant and Technology Writer

London, United Kingdom

Current
  • Freelance Technology Writer and Consultant at Fehen Consulting Ltd. (Self-employed)
Past
  • Senior Consultant at ECsoft UK
  • Technology Strategist at Scient
  • Consultant at ECsoft UK
  • Technical Manager at UK Online
  • Research Engineer at GEC Hirst Research
Education
  • University of Bath
  • University of Bath
Connections
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
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Simon Bisson’s Summary

Freelance technology writer and IT strategy consultant.

Currently available for short term IT strategy consulting roles, and technology writing (including commercial white papers and ghostwriting).

Messaging Editor for Server Management
Contributing Editor for PC Plus
Handling Server and Server OS and Networking for IT Pro with Mary Branscombe

Recent consulting projects have included work with large transport companies and e-government consulting.

On a freelance basis I'm now Messaging Editor for Server Management magazine, where I cover enterprise email and messaging technologies on a monthly basis. I'm also a contributing editor for PC Plus, where I write the Office development column. Elsewhere I write about enterprise IT for IT Pro, consumer tools for The Official Windows XP Magazine, I cover web technologies for Web Designer, developer tools and technologies for The Register and contribute to the FT's Digital Business section.

I was a regular contributor to The Guardian's Inside IT section, covering a range of enterprise IT issues, until the section was closed with a recent redesign. Until recently I also had a web and Internet development column in the sadly closed Application Development Advisor. I also ran ASP and PHP columns in the now closed Web Developer.

I have written technology white papers for many of the world's top IT companies, as well as undertaking commissioned commercial writing for corporate magazines and publications.

Simon Bisson’s Specialties:

Web services, XML, IT strategy, infrastructure, solutions architectures,service oriented architectures, messaging technologies, mobile computing, IT journalism, technology journalism, white paper authoring, article authoring, media consultancy.


Simon Bisson’s Experience

  • Freelance Technology Writer and Consultant

    Fehen Consulting Ltd. (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 2003Present (5 years 4 months)

    Freelance IT strategy consulting and technology writing.

    Messaging Editor for Server Management
    Contributing Editor for PC Plus
    Handling Server and Server OS and Networking for IT Pro with Mary Branscombe

    On a freelance basis I'm now Messaging Editor for Server Management magazine, where I cover enterprise email and messaging technologies on a monthly basis. I'm also a contributing editor for PC Plus, where I write the Office development column. Elsewhere I write about enterprise IT for IT Pro, consumer tools for The Official Windows XP Magazine, I cover web technologies for Web Designer, developer tools and technologies for The Register and contribute to the FT's Digital Business section.

    Whitepapers written for various companies, including Microsoft and Adobe.

    Technology consulting for a range of clients. Projects have mainly been technology assessments and IT strategy roadmap development for organisations facing significant change management issuees.

  • Senior Consultant

    ECsoft UK

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2002April 2003 (1 year 2 months)

    Senior consultant working in an architecture role in the Channels practice of ECsoft. Involved in a range of projects for private and public clients - including knowledge management, web services architecture work and developing the organisational web testing and IM strategies.

  • Technology Strategist

    Scient

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; SCNT; Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 1999March 2002 (2 years 4 months)

    Consultant specialising in large scale web architectures and technology choices. UK technology lead for mobiile web application development. UK technology lead for XML solutions.

  • Consultant

    ECsoft UK

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 1996November 1999 (3 years 1 month)

    Involved in creating the company's Ecommerce practice. Developed and delivered the first major ebusiness solutions for ECsoft clients, working across a wide selection of industries and technologies.

  • Technical Manager

    UK Online

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 1994November 1996 (2 years 7 months)

    Launched the UK's first web-based online service. Ran technical services for a national ISP in the early days of dial-up connectivity...

  • Research Engineer

    GEC Hirst Research

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    1991April 1994 (3 years)

    Research engineer in the Systems and Circuits group, specialising in advanced local loop technologies.

    Worked on cable telephony, ADSL, wireless mobility and wireless office.


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