Alistair Sutherland
Technical Director

Alistair Sutherland is the Technical Director at Taupo Consulting. Alistair has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years providing technical consulting expertise and training delivery in a variety of distributed systems.

Alistair started working with VMware in 2002, when VMware were little known and the ESX product was at version 1.5. Working directly with VMware,  Alistair became one of the first VMware instructors in EMEA and the process of building mature virtualisation skills started. Alistair travelled the world for over 3 years on behalf of VMware and tier 1 partners,  delivering VMware training, consulting  and workshops. During that time he delivered training in locations including,  Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Sydney, Copenhagen, Prague, New York and Sao Paulo.

Alistair has been found at every VMworld conference since 2004, in both Europe and Americas, usually assisting with instructor activities or providing VCP certification preparation workshops in the conference venue.

Alistair is the primary author of the B2V Command Line Guides to VMware ESX which were started at version 2.0. These guides have become the de-facto standard and are heavily linked to and referenced everyday by virtualisation users around the world.

Alistair is a “Board Warrior” on the VMware community forum, assisting where he can and contributing back to the virtualisation community. He has been a speaker at Tech Forum conference in Las Vegas and was the host for the virtual genius challenge at VMworld 2005 in Los Angeles

Tom Mill
Managing Director

Tom is a seasoned professional having spent his entire career in the Computer industry since graduating in Mathematics from Glasgow University.

A significant feature of Tom`s track record has been in taking start up or fledgling companies and successfully turning them into substantial successful enterprises.

Over a decade Tom took Weir Systems from a start up in the ERP space and developed it  into a major software house, employing 150 professionals across four offices in the UK

More recently Tom developed EVision from a fledgling start up, designed their products for the construction industry, and established the company as one of the main players in the sector, operating across three offices in the UK before negotiating the succesful sale of the company.

John Braner VCP VCI
Senior consultant

Originally from New York, John was a leading consultant at Novell before turning his focus to VMware and becoming a fully qualified VMware instructor.  John travels the globe for Taupo to fulfill the demand for high quality VMware certified training.  When he is here in the UK John is kept busy assisting the team with the many virtualisation projects that Taupo are involved in.

Chris McEwan
Senior Consultant

Chris has over 16 years experience of working in front-line IT, Starting off at the desktop support level and working his way through hardware presales and Wintel Consultantancy. Current skills include VMware ESX and VMware View as well as being an accredited VMware Certified Professional, technical presales and sales certified he also brings Microsoft desktop and server knowledge to the mix.
Accomplishments include
• The first production deployment of View 4.5 in the UK.
• VMware View Specialist on 3.x and 4.x
• VMware Vsphere Certifications, Several Deployments on various hardware and Instruction on use of the vsphere enviroment passed on to customers.
• VMware VI3.x Installations. Including VMware View, Scripted ESX installations and onsite training on the process.