Jonathan Simms Email & Phone Number

Enfield, England, United Kingdom

I am a Trustee on the Board of Trustees, chair of two Local Governing Boards at Fern House school and Chesterfield Primary School

London, England, United Kingdom

I am retired from full-time employment, and enjoyably and actively fill my time with walking, writing, school governorship and participating in the education team (primary school age) at the local Woodcroft Wildspace. I have recently co-authored and published my late father's autobiography; he grew up as a Jew in an increasingly Nazi controlled Germany.

I managed a group of highly skilled individuals who created solutions for a range of Applications Management Services across the UK. These services ranged from traditional outsourcing engagements to state-of-the-art transformational deals, which included automation and next generation innovation.

I was responsible for managing the team of senior outsourcing enterprise solution architects creating winning solutions for complex transformational deals. I was also a member of the UK OS Sales & Marketing Management team. Winning deals that I was directly involved in included a desktop deal for a large energy organisation (worth £30m) and an AO deal for.

I was responsible for a team of staff developing winning solutions for Applications Outsourcing (AO) pursuits. I was also a member of the AO Management team.

As Delivery Strategy Group Manager for the Applications Outsourcing division, I implemented a number of key delivery processes into the AO delivery unit (including streamlined end-of-month processing and more effective service delivery).

On joining Capgemini in 2002, I undertook the role of UK Applications Management (AM) Service Centre Deployment Manager, where I was responsible for the deployment of consistent processes and tools across AM centres in the UK. These centres employed over 1,000 staff and my work involved developing business cases for the deployment activity, planning and.

I managed the Technical and Professional Services group within iDesk. This group provided iDesk’s IT infrastructure, application development and support capability as well as defined the company’s evolving technological strategy and standards. The strategy was based on harnessing Internet technology to provide e-CRM and e-Commerce solutions utilising Java.

In October 1996, I was seconded from Cap Gemini to Twinsoft to manage the Delivery Business Unit and introduce development and maintenance disciplines. Twinsoft (later to become part of Compaq) was the UK’s leading Non-stop Integration Services arm and under my leadership, the Delivery unit was responsible for the entire delivery capability (SI, Managed.

During my first few years at Cap Gemini, I successfully undertook a number of consultancy, Project Management and Service Management assignments for clients on HP and Digital mainframe platforms. I was responsible for the development and support of systems for several blue chip organisations running applications that included credit card insurance.

I joined Triad in 1980 as a trainee programmer (programming in Cobol, Basic, BCPL and Assembler on HP, IBM and Texas Instrument technology) and progressed through the roles of team leader, designer and analyst eventually to undertake the role of Project Manager. I worked on a variety of architectures and different applications (including financial.

Ba (Hons), Economics

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