About Us

Speedster-IT Ltd, started by David Cairns, is an established IT Support, Managed Hosting, IT consultancy and Web Development company.

Speedster specialise in Microsoft Windows environments, Exchange Server, Trend Micro Antivirus, VMware and Linux. We have space in one of London’s flagship Tier 1 data centres and operate our networking operations from this facility. We currently look after 60 managed hosting clients and have clients internationally. Speedster has now been in business for 5 years and has been profitable from the outset. This has allowed us to successfully grow each year. Our clients range in size from 3 to 300 users. All have made use of our technical expertise to design and build network solutions or web based solutions and we are seen as a key supplier to all of them.

Below is an outline of our staff.....

Directors/ Management

  David Cairns - Technical and Sales Director - Founder
 

David has been in IT since he was 16, from leaving school he worked on MOD projects and large network implementations. Since starting Speedster in 2004 he has made sure the technical side of the business is always on top form and that engineers are informed and trained on the latest technologies. He has also setup partnerships with technology providers to make sure Speedster clients always get the best services. I am sure you will meet him if you become a new client to Speedster !


John Cairns - Director Finance/Purchasing
 

John has recently become a new partner within Speedster. His business skills make sure Speedster is always running at its full potential both financially and efficiently. John comes from a large corporate background in finance where he has over 30 years experience. His responsibilites also include purchasing and procurement ensuring clients get hardware and software at the best prices possible. John also looks after customer service issues making sure our clients receive the best service we can provide from within Speedster.

Melvyn Rutter- MIMI - Director
 

 

Director and co-founder of Speedster-IT with David Cairns. Using his vast business experience spread over 31 years, it was he who saw the need to provide the kind of care and support that so many companies in the IT industry seem to fail to provide. Melvyn's experience stems from the motor industry, being a Morgan sports car main dealer. This niche market place with its customer desire for care with attention to detail is no different to the needs of customers requiring excellent IT service and support.
 

Networking Office Staffing


Daniel Woodhouse - Senior Consultant
 

Senior Consultant Daniel mainly works on larger projects for speedster's larger clients such as the public sector and large private companies. Dan is known to the team as the "fountain of all knowledge" he brings great experience to our team and makes sure we are always on top of the latest technologies giving us cutting edge experience. 

Gresby Wong - Network Field Engineer
 

"Gres" joined speedster in August 08 as a new engineer, he has joined our busy helpdesk and onsite engineer team, David had previously worked with Gresby and was very happy to bring him onto the technical team. Gres main skills are hardware and software to the user desktop with a great understanding of these skills he is proving a great help to the team.

 

Taras Puhol - Lead Linux Engineer

Taras is new engineer to the team who is an expert in the following areas. Master degree in Computer sciences (Computer Systems and Networks) Ph.D. student - sciences interests: HPC, clusters, GRID computing, clouds, neural networks, etc DBA - Database Administration, MySQL - 7 years Server Administration - Windows & Linux/Unix Administration - 8 years Network Administration - 5 years ERP / CRM Implementation - 3 years
 
Development Office Staffing

Viktor Demchuk - Web Designer

Primary he is web designer but also skilled in e-mail development, print design, system administration, newspapers and magazines layout, basic knowledge of Flash, jQuery, PHP, AJAX, MYSQL and other. Some time I was also familiar with the scientific activities and parallel computing.

 

 

 


 

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