Mat Withers is co-founder and Technical Director of Net Primates Limited.
Mat has had over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. After starting as a Computer Technician at the University of Portsmouth, in 1995 he set up the technical side of a Business ISP located in the Southampton area where he worked as Systems Support Manager until co-founding Net Primates Limited.
He has a keen interest in all things Open Source but is most interested in anything Linux related in which he has over 15 years experience.
Key Accomplishments
- Designed and Set up Hampshire Business ISP
- Design, installed and commissioned an ISP backbone terminating ADSL, Dial and MPLS customers.
- Designed/Written an ISP Management system
- Designed, installed, commissioned and supported a multi-site backbone utilising BT’s IPClear and Framestream networks.
- Management of the NOC (Network Operation Centre) environment including escalation and fault management.
- Support of all levels including 1st, 2nd and 3rd Line
Apart from being a competent Unix System Administrator, a perl/C programmer and experienced in network design and management, Mat takes a keen interest in integrating Open Source server applications with the desktop environment (be that Windows, Mac or Unix).
You can e-mail Mat at mat@netprimates.com or call him direct on 02381 800 821 or 07970 793890