Simon is a qualified PMP (Project Management Professional) certified by the Project Management Institute, an APMG certified PRINCE2 practitioner, trainer & when PRINCE2 was essay based a member of the team of examiners. Simon is a member of the Isochron Project Management Think Tank and holds ISACA's CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT) qualification. He has 30 years in projects, the last 19 years as either project manager or programme management team member in projects up to £100m revenue expense.
Experience ranges from corporate restructuring through software developments and service improvement projects in defence, financial, utility and local government sector organisations.
Recent assignments include:
· Consulting on the implementation of IT Governance to a UN agency.
· Workshops using the COBIT & ITIL frameworks for IT governance to Deloitte & Touche’s managers of corporate risk practices.
· Programme office manager for a £100m development. Subsequent creation of programme and governance structures for a variety of large-scale programmes in enterprise contexts.
· Member team restructuring a US$6bn subsidiary of GE.
· Project execution and training for many blue-chip organisations BAE, Rolls-Royce, Novartis, BP, Royal Bank of Scotland, Motorola, AOL, Bank of Ireland, Barclays, Axa et. al..
Simon’s background started with 11 years at the London Stock Exchange followed by contract assignments since then to date.
Simon was born in London in 1958 and now lives in Edinburgh with his wife and two teenage children.
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