Education & Professional Experience

Simon has studied at University of Southern Queensland between 2003 and 2005, then at University of Stirling between 1994 and 1998, then at Universidad de León between 1996 and 1997.

Simon worked for Ricoh Australia as Head of Business Applications Development and Data Engineering between Apr 2018 and Jun 2020, for Workstar as Head of Product Technology Engineering & Innovation between Nov 2017 and Apr 2018, for Industrie&Co as Principal Consultant & Agile Coach - DevOps Engineering between Jun 2017 and Nov 2017, for Kaplan Australia as Director of Software Engineering - Asia Pacific between Jan 2015 and Jul 2017, for Kaplan as Head of Global e-Learning Software Engineering between May 2011 and Dec 2014, for APPLIED LANGUAGE SOLUTIONS LTD as Agile Software Delivery Manager between May 2010 and May 2011, for learndirect Limited as Lead Software Developer/Development Manager between Mar 2008 and May 2010, for Health and Safety Executive as Web Developer between Jul 2007 and Mar 2008, for Loquela Consulting as Director between Jun 2004 and 2008.

 Skills & Competences

Simon has the following skills : IT Strategy, Change Management, Business Administration, Business Analysis, Agile Project Management, Scrum, Cloud Strategy, JavaScript, Data Science, Software Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), IT Transformation, Vendor Management, Business Intelligence (BI), DevOps, Cloud Computing, E-Learning, Integration, Project Management.

Simon graduated from the following courses : ITIL IT Service Management, Creating Educational Web Environments, MA Applied Linguistics, Fast Start in Business Analysis, Certified Professional Scrum Master, BA Hispanic Studies (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan).

Simon speaks the following languages : Japanese, Spanish.

Simon has earned the following certifications : BTEC National Certificate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, delivered by BTEC; DevOps for Data Scientists, delivered by LinkedIn; Certified Professional Scrum Master , delivered by Scrum.org; AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, delivered by Amazon Web Services; Chartered IT Professional, delivered by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT; Learning Data Science: Understanding the Basics, delivered by LinkedIn; AWS Certified Developer - Associate, delivered by Amazon Web Services; ITIL Certificate in IT Service Management, delivered by AXELOS Global Best Practice; DevSecOps: Building a Secure Continuous Delivery Pipeline, delivered by LinkedIn; Learning Data Science: Using Agile Methodology, delivered by LinkedIn.