About Adrian Simmons - IT Consultant

Welcome to Adrian Simmons, your trusted IT consultant in Cheltenham, United Kingdom, and beyond. With over three decades of experience in IT and Telecom Infrastructure End-t6-End Solutions Provider, He offer top-notch consultancy to enhance the efficiency, security, and scalability of any IT infrastructure. With years on hand-on experience that is now capable of end to end solution providing.

ADSINET LTD (ADSiNet-IT)

Solutions Director

 

From Aug 2023 to Present

This is current Adrian Simmons own company providing Consultancy Services to various IT MSP and Companies on a contract basis:

Key Duties:

  • Lead project management and support across various IT Infrastructure, Network and telecom projects. 
  • Oversee Azure modern workspace implementations, M365 and Azure platform management, and infrastructure upgrades. 
  • Implemented key projects: Azure Landing Zone, Kubernetes Migration, Sophos to Barracuda firewall migration, and NetApp refresh. 
  • Mentor consultants through workshops and training. 
  • Manage companies M365 Tenant and all IT internal operations and development.

 

Contracted business relationship with the following MSPs:  

 

 

Managed Customers:\\\\\

 

  • Intune Events – MSP service for M365 Emails
  • Galaxy Group Cleaning Service – MSP Services provided for IT support

 

Companies benefited from my experience:

 

  • HSL COMPLIANCE – SharePoint Migration and Managed M365 (6-Month Contract 2024)
  • Simplify IT – Senior Consultant/Engineer (3- Month Contract 2023)
  • Planet-IT – M365 Project Engineer

           (3-month Contract 2023)

ACCENTURE

 

Pre-Sales Cyber Security Consultant

From July 2022 – June 2023              

  • Delivered cybersecurity solutions for banking sector clients including NatWest, LBG, and Barclays. 
  • Conducted security assessments, penetration testing, and compliance reviews. 
  • Supported AWS, Azure, GPC, and IBM Cloud security issues. 

Areas Covered:

- Cyber Essential Accreditations


- Web Apps


- Web Service


- Mobile Aps


- Vulnerability Assessment


- Internal Infrastructure


- External Infrastructure


- Firewall Review 


- Build Review

 
- Phishing 


- Cloud / O365 


- Code Review 


- Database Review 


- Breakout Assessment 


- Social Engineering 


- ITHC 


- SSO || SAML || VPN 


- Thick Client Testing 


- Wireless Testing

 

Marathon Professional Services

Technical Consultant    

 

From June 2020 to June 2022   

(Formally Marathon Managed Services Now Fluid One) 

  

  • Provided consultancy and implementation for cybersecurity, networking,

and cloud services.  Inc: M365 Migrations

  • Managed security assessments, infrastructure upgrades, and O365 migrations. 
  • Delivered solutions for container image review, cyber essentials, and VMware/Hyper-V infrastructures. 

 

Projects completed and Implemented:

 

Cyber security including PEN test:

  • Security Assessments
  • Container Image Review
  • Internal/External Infrastructure Test
  • Cyber Essential Accreditations and PLUS
  • Full documentation, Analysing, Resolution
  • AV Vulnerabilities using SOPHOP UTM and Cloud, McAfee MOVES and ESET.

 

Networking:

  • Boundary Control - Cisco, Fortinet, Sonic Firewalls
  • Switches - Cisco/HP/Aruba/D-Link with VLAN(s)
  • Wireless - Meraki Wi-Fi, Unifi, Ruckus (Company MSP status achieved - CWNP)
  • CCTV and door entry

 

Infrastructure:

  • HP and DELL using VMWare and Hyper-V
  • Virtual Infrastructure for Server 2016/2019 - AD, DNS internal and External (split-Brain)
  • DHCP, IIS, RDS and WSU and Hybrid Exchange

 

Cloud Services:

  • Azure full stack
  • O365 Tenant to Tenant and from On-prem Exchange migrations,
  • O365 – Teams, SharePoint (Using Quest and Bit Titan)
  • VMWare Workspace
  • Apple MDM
  • Azure Intune

 

 

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