Simone trained as a secretary from school, and moved to England at the age of 19 temping in various organisations. She moved to Manchester and through the employment agency Manpower secured a temporary admin role in DEC’s bid support team. She learned about DigiTemps, DEC’s in–house temp program offering potential continuity for permanent roles. After a few months, Simone got a DigiTemps role and worked in bid support and assisted consultants with proposals for Multi–Vendor Customer Services. Simone’s career took a turn when a new department called Base Sales was established under Marion Hathorne’s leadership. This focused on upselling additional services to existing customers, building on their equipment purchases and contracts. After working in management for a while, Simone moved to Field Sales and was at DEC when the Compaq takeover happened. After this, Simone moved to IBM, where she started as a Partner Account Manager for the public sector. She later transitioned into account management, and defence and national security, as well as local government.