Simon Guest's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Simon's wider experience:Director, Connected Vehicle, Last Mile Technology at Amazon Simon Guest is currently a Director, Connected Vehicle, Last Mile Technology at Amazon in Bellevue, WA. Senior Consultant at Conchango from December 1997 to December 2000 (3 years 1 month) in London, England. Worked with Dresdner Bank to implement an SSO architecture, enabling trading access to Web, desktop, and mainframe applications using an SSL-based VPN tunnel. Solution was developed jointly with Microsoft and RSA, as detailed in EU patent EP1280060. VP, Engineering at Concur from May 2014 to September 2017 (3 years 5 months) in Greater Seattle Area. Led the web, mobile, platform, labs, and data engineering teams at Concur.Developed and implemented new UI framework, based on React, Redux, Node.js, and GraphQL. Shipped new versions of Concur Expense, App Center, and D3-based analytics tool, replacing legacy Cognos installation.Shipped multiple updates of Concur Mobile, including integration of OCR/ML-based receipt capture, budget insight reporting, migration to Swift, and device-based encryption.Implemented organization-wide CI/CD process using GitHub, CircleCI, Quay, Docker, and Kubernetes on AWS.Winner of the AT&T Global Hackathon (IoT category), Las Vegas in Jan 2015. Distinguished Engineer at Neudesic from November 2010 to May 2014 (3 years 7 months) in Irvine, CA. Worked with Zonar to create a 7” Android ODM tablet for long-haul truck drivers, supporting driver logs, navigation, RFID vehicle inspection, and JBUS-based engine telematics.Developed in-flight iPad application for LG&E, used by air patrol team to report power structure defects and create routine maintenance plans for ground teams.Designed mobile fundraising and donation platform for American Cancer Society, supporting mobile credit card processing, check scanning, and micro-transactions using NFC-based wristbands for annual events.Shipped Microsoft's Windows Azure Toolkits for iOS and Android, open source SDKs for mobile developers. Senior Director of Technical Strategy at Microsoft Corporation from January 2009 to November 2010 (1 year 11 months) in Redmond, WA. Competitive analysis of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Salesforce, making quarterly recommendations to Microsoft Senior Leadership Team to help guide product development.Microsoft speaker at conferences, including being awarded a place on the “Rock Star Wall of Fame” at JavaOne 2010 for Cloud Computing Expert Panel. Delivered keynote for public opening of Microsoft’s DB3 Datacenter in Dublin, Ireland.Named as one of “Microsoft’s Key Employee Losses of 2010” by eWeek. Senior Director of Platform Architecture at Microsoft Corporation from October 2005 to January 2009 (3 years 4 months) in Redmond, WA. Led team of solution and infrastructure architects chartered with delivering proof-of-concepts, patterns, guidance, and events for Microsoft’s customers worldwide.Ran the Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum (SAF), managed architecture tracks

🎓 Education

Simon Guest has a masters in IT security from University of Westminster in 1998, and a hnc, software engineering degree from City College Plymouth in 1994. He started his career as a software engineer at IBM in Swindon, UK in 1996. Simon is currently a software engineer at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, Washington.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Simon Guest is an experienced Director, Connected Vehicle, Last Mile Technology at Amazon, and has also been a Senior Consultant at Conchango from December 1997 to December 2000 (3 years 1 month). Simon has also worked with Dresdner Bank to implement an SSO architecture, enabling trading access to Web, desktop, and mainframe applications using an SSL-based VPN tunnel. His solution was developed jointly with Microsoft and RSA, as detailed in EU patent EP1280060. Simon also leads the web, mobile, platform, labs, and data engineering teams at Concur. He has also developed and implemented new UI framework, based on React, Redux, Node.js, and GraphQL. He also shipped multiple updates of Concur Expense, App Center, and D3-based analytics tool, replacing legacy Cognos installation. Simon has also implemented organization-wide CI/CD process using GitHub, CircleCI, Quay, Docker, and Kubernetes on AWS. He has won the VerizonGlobal Hackathon (IoT category), Las Vegas in Jan 2015. He was also Distinguished Engineer at Neudesic from November 2010 to May 2014 (3 years 7 months) in Irvine, CA. Simon is also a Senior Director at Microsoft Corporation from October 2005 to January 2009 (3 years 4 months) in Redmond, WA. There he led team of solution and infrastructure architects chartered with delivering proof-of-concepts, patterns, guidance, and events for Microsoft’s customers worldwide. As a senior director at Microsoft Corporation, he is also a director of Technical Strategy at Microsoft Corporation, and the editor-in-chief of the “Microsoft Architecture Journal” from Issues 6 to 16 - a quarterly online and printed publication, reaching 75,000+ readers. Simon also received excellence award by Sun Microsystems at JavaOne 2005. Simon is currently a Senior Director, Software Development, at Amazon in Bellevue, WA.