Simon Bramble Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Accountable for the Offices of the Forensic Science Regulator, the Surveillance Camera Commissioner and Forensic Pathology. Pan-Home Office co-ordination of Futures activity. Dimensions: £1.5m, 14 staff over 3 locations.
• The provision of ministerial briefings, submissions and advice.
• Implementation of ministerial policies and drove insight for HO 2020.
• Recruitment and selection of independent national regulators for England & Wales.
• Managed a major independent review of forensic pathology services in England & Wales.
• Embedded a pan-Home Office structure for Futures work that linked with Cabinet Office led cross-government structures such as Big Data.

London, United Kingdom

• Accountable for national leadership of forensic science strategy, policy, programmes and service. Dimensions: £6m, 110 staff over 5 locations.
• I was a pivotal member of the UK Government team that fought the S&Maper case at the European Court of Human Rights.
• Led a successful national business change programme implementing savings over £20m, new business capability, new procurement model, ICT and decommissioning projects.
• Managed national services including National DNA database and forensic pathology.
• Provided answers for parliamentary questions, ministerial advice, and gave evidence to House of Commons select committee on Science & Technology.
• Provided strategic leadership for forensic science in collaboration with the police service and the Home Office for over £400m spend, 5000 staff and 43 locations in England & Wales.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Accountable for the company’s ICT covering England & Wales and international business. Dimensions: £150m revenue with 2500 staff over 12 locations, 9% of turnover spent on ICT.
• Nominated for 2006 National Computing Public Sector IT project of the Year award for delivery of Forensic Recovery Vehicle incorporating satellite communications for interoperability.
• Delivered ICT services for FSS, Home Office databases (National DNA and National Forensic Firearms), and ran a confidential forensic network and crime scene computing for a police client.
• Delivered £150m of revenue, the business’ best financial performance to date as a member of the Senior Management Team accountable for the execution of the in-year business plan.
• Reduced central IT costs by 50% in 4 years whilst maintaining service levels through implementation of new internal processes and re-structuring.
• Delivered a £25M refresh of the entire data and voice infrastructure with no impact on revenue.

London, United Kingdom

• Operational & Reseach Manager for Electronic Forensic Science
• Delivered growth of 15% in revenue.
• Introduced 6 new products including Forensic Video, Audio, mobile phone and PDA services.
• Re-organised business processes/services and structure to meet customer demand.
• Created a projected funding stream from the US Army now worth over £1M of total R&D spend.
• Ran 5 international conferences in the USA on image processing for law enforcement.

London, United Kingdom

• Operational forensic scientist in the Serious Crime Unit.
• Developed the world’s first ultraviolet fluorescent imaging of latent fingerprints.
• Invented the novel use of thin-layer Chromatography for latent fingerprint residue characterisation.
• Initiated and managed university project collaborations.
• Managed the operational merger of the Metropolitan Police’s and the Forensic Science Service’s Physical Science R&D departments.

London, United Kingdom

• Developed a novel method for laser quantum-beat spectroscopy of gas phase molecules.

B.A., Practice & Theory Of Fine Art, Upper Second 2:1

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Physical Chemistry

I carried out blue-sky research into the laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy of small gas-phase molecules.

B.Sc., Chemistry, 1St Class

Physical Sciences