Desktop, Virtualisation and Application Delivery Specialist
Sydney Area, Australia
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- Enterprise Systems Engineer at Citrix Systems
- Senior Partner Systems Engineer at VMware Asia Pacific
- Senior Solution Sales Specialist - Windows Client at Microsoft Australia
- Solution Lead, Novell ZENworks, Asia Pacific at Novell
- Product & Program Marketing Manager - Asia Pacific at Altiris
- European Network Operations Manager at Young & Rubicam Europe
- Network Engineer at Research Machines PLC,
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Simon Higgins’s Summary
Simon is an IT&T professional who has worked in in-house IT management roles as well as for leading vendors in the IT industry since 1990 in England, Europe, the US and Asia Pacific.
During this period, he has gained a strong skill set encompassing the deployment and management of virtualisation from the leading vendors – VMware, Citrix Systems and Microsoft.
In brief his skills encompass virtualisation, X86 management tools and application delivery solutions from leading vendors such as Citrix Systems, VMware and Microsoft covering the deployment and management of X86 desktops, application delivery and application virtualisation, virtualisation of X86 datacentre workloads and virtual desktop infrastructure to help customers reduce their capital, operating expenditure and complexity of their IT infrastructures.
Simon Higgins’s Specialties:
Virtualisation, Solution Selling, Product Sales /Solution Evangelism, desktop management technologies covering both traditional and virtualised desktops and competitive and market analysis.
Business Development across Government, Financial services, Commercial and Education verticals through technology thought leadership with both customers and business partners in the infrastructure space.
Simon Higgins’s Experience
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Enterprise Systems Engineer
Citrix Systems
(Public Company; CTXS; Computer Software industry)
October 2008 — April 2009 (7 months)
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Senior Partner Systems Engineer
VMware Asia Pacific
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VMW; Computer Software industry)
October 2007 — September 2008 (1 year)
Simon worked with IBM, EDS, CSC, Dell Computers and Sun Micro Systems within the regional market to jointly articulate Virtualisation solutions leveraging the partners business and go to market initiatives and services within the Virtualisation space.
This encompassed software, hardware, storage and services solutions aligned with VMware core solutions and technologies to provide customers with greater data centre efficiencies and optimisation of their infrastructure. -
Senior Solution Sales Specialist - Windows Client
Microsoft Australia
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
November 2004 — November 2007 (3 years 1 month)
Simon worked at Microsoft for nearly 3 years as part of the Enterprise Platform Group (EPG - Enterprise Partner Group) within the Specialist Technology Unit (STU)
His primary focuswas on the business value of the Windows platform to businesses working directly with Microsoft Enterprise customers covering all verticals and tier 1- 3 partners in the Australian market place.
He also worked closely with the Windows global business group as part of the launch of Windows Vista and achieved global recognition with these activities and was directly involved in the launch of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 (LOVE) to businesses during 2006 prior to the general consumer release in January 2007. -
Solution Lead, Novell ZENworks, Asia Pacific
Novell
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NOVL; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2004 (4 years)
Business Development for Novell ZENworks
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Product & Program Marketing Manager - Asia Pacific
Altiris
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ATRS; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — December 2004 (1 year)
Asia Pacific
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European Network Operations Manager
Young & Rubicam Europe
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 1994 — February 1998 (4 years 2 months)
United Kingdom & Europe
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Network Engineer
Research Machines PLC,
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
1991 — 1994 (3 years)
United Kingdom
Additional Information
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Simon Higgins’s Interests:
Family, Formula 1 Grand Prix Motorsport, Rugby Union and playing the guitar.
Simon Higgins’s Groups:
IT Professionals
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Windows 7
Simon Higgins’s Honors:
Microsoft Global Award - Outstanding SSP presented to me by Simon Witts, Global Enterprise & Partner VP
4 x Microsoft Australian subsidary Awards received during my tenure with the company
VMware award for top APAC Partner Systems engineer - Q2 2008.
Simon Higgins’s Contact Settings
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