Simon Collier Email & Phone Number

Fredericton, NB, CA

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Edmonton, Canada Area

• Reporting to the Deputy CIO, responsible for working with the executive team to define strategic initiatives, recruit for those initiatives, and provide oversight to them. Leading efforts to change the culture towards.
• Change the University governance to include business units involved in providing Student Lifecycle services to jointly determine the level at which each service should be governed (central vs unit vs individual).
• Manage and lead interviews and workshops with faculties and business units to understand their work, identify their pain points, and recommend changes to IT services in order to better align to their needs.
• Responsible for overseeing the development of business intelligence reporting for the enterprise’s IT as well as some business units.
• Manage the Artificial Intelligence Discovery project, which consists of a series of experiments using cloud AI services to build proof-of-concepts that can solve stakeholder problems.
• Lead, coach and facilitate leaders and teams in central IT to support innovative activities; introduced a Lean Startup methodology to ensure the use of minimal viable products/tests to validate ideas, resulting in.

Edmonton, AB

• Responsible for
• Establishing a practice that will mature into Enterprise Architecture over several years.
• The Alignment of IT strategy and planning with the University's business goals.
• The promotion of shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flows in order to ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from business and IT strategies.
• (Directly and indirectly) the development of policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation and use of Information Technology within the University.
• Understanding the major systems on campus and how they interact so they can be leveraged as part of solutions to new challenges.

Edmonton, Canada Area

• Rebuilt the University's central Application Development team, including restructuring the team and rewriting position descriptions.
• Engaged external vendors and contractors to supplement staffing during the rebuild process to ensure projects related to research and operations were not impacted
• Managed relationships with professors, VPs and support staff to ensure their development and hosting needs were met
• Worked with other teams within central IT to ensure IT was provided as a seamless, complete service
• Integrated development projects with the department's ITIL-based change management processes to ensure consistency, auditability and transparency
• Promoted and ensured training for the development team

Edmonton, AB

Prior to Google Apps being an official project, I was responsible for the coordination of it. That included testing and piloting Gmail, Calendar and Docs; coordinating the technical, communications, privacy, and management stakeholders; and addressing the concerns of department IT staff.Core member of the project team responsible for migrating 140,000+.

Edmonton, AB

Upgraded Office of Advancement from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 and introduced Office Communication Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007. All services were adapted to use central authentication.Consulted with St Joseph’s College to determine the best approach to anti-virus in their environment. Based on their licensing options, already deployed.

Edmonton, AB

Designed, implemented and maintained the company’s network environment, including Active Directory services, Exchange server, SugarCRM (Apache on UNIX) and various Microsoft.Net servers which hosted the company’s web-based event management software.

Provided phone support for Compaq and HP-branded consumer PCs.Balanced my drive for excellent customer service and desire to find solutions to problems with the expectation to keep calls short in order to help as many people as possible.

Education record

Education record

Moved to Canada after first year