Simon is responsible for the GroundWork product families and ensuring customers and partners have features and capabilities they need to slash their monitoring costs.
Combining many mature open source projects into a complete monitoring solution requires working closely with customers, prospects and constituent project leaders in addition to the GroundWork Engineering staff to ensure a stable and feature rich end-product. Simon believes that the open source development model is the best way develop and refine innovative and disruptive software solutions.
Simon is a frequent contributor to webcasts describing how GroundWork Monitor can be used to solve common problems. He particularly enjoys hearing from customers and partners about novel solutions they've built on top of GroundWork Monitor.
Prior to GroundWork, Simon worked in Marketing and Engineering at Levanta, Sapient, and ICL. Simon attained his BSc in Computer Science from the University of Southampton, UK.
Home Town: Frimley, UK
Hobbies: Simon enjoys surfing, diving, photography and travel. He does not enjoy being called "The Limey."
Email: sbennett at groundworkopensource dot com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonpbennett