Simon Crisp Email & Phone Number

- Supporting the implementation of the agreed Operational Excellence Space programme through monitoring and assisting the programme's projects.- Acting as the focal point for programme information and communicating this to the relevant parties in a timely manner in order to provide early warning and a possible escalation of potential issues and risks to senior management.- Supporting a rapid improvement event designed with the aim of removing students from unsuitable examination venues and reducing the use of undesirable examination venues. Providing logistical and analytical support to ensure the project is well informed and stays ahead of projected issues.- Coordinating and aligning the programme's streams to ensure an integrated and cohesive overall delivery, influencing the project teams to use standardised materials to minimise duplication of effort and to make the collation of materials from across the programme into effective updates and presentations as smooth as possible.- Organised, facilitated and supported an Exam timetabling consultation with academic staff and students, involving interviews and the production and analysis of Qualtrics surveys.

- Enabled the Space programme to better achieve its objectives by organising the collection andassimilation of the exam timetables of the majority of the College’s departments into one standarised format, then performed analysis on the data to find novel trends and insights.- Organising and supporting a Rapid Improvement Event (RIE) on Exam Timetabling, providing data analysis and summary materials to inform the steering group.- Helped Human Resources (HR) refine and improve their processes surrounding promotion and assessing the job level of new roles. Achieved by organising, devising and facilitating an RIE with members of staff from across the College. This involved working with senior stakeholders as well as presenting back key findings and information.- Helped HR better understand their own processes through process mapping.- Facilitated the Faculty of Medicine business development team through a strengths/weaknesses/opportunities/threats analysis through a Lego Serious Play session, plus currently developing a teambuilding centric session using the technique for the incoming intake of management trainees.- Delivered a lunchtime masterclass on “5S Workplace organization”, having researched and created the accompanying material.- Saved time and simplified the administration process for the OE training tracker by redesigning and merging multiple existing files into a single source of information.

- Organised the production of the Diverse@Imperial exhibition material, including theorganisation/coordination of photography with the featured subjects, writing/editing of copy and ultimate printing/set up of the exhibition in the main entrance. Used an Agile project approach as due to the need to be able to constantly test and evaluate what we were producing.- Lead on the development of infographics for the College to use in "Brexit" and internationally themed communications, involving the collation of the suitable data sets, conception of the graphics and liaising with design agencies to manage their production following their commission.- Managed the design and printing of updated panels and other materials for the 2017 Women@Imperial exhibition, commissioning and liaising with the design team and writing copy for the new pieces. Also reworked the Women@Imperial webpages to make their content more engaging.- Conceived of the concept behind the College staff survey and developed the visual identity and messaging behind it, producing the creative brief and writing copy for the promotional material.- Coordinated the design and printing of an Estates Facilities "Best Practice" Guide, including the checking of copy, graphic identity and assuring the document conformed with College Style and brand guidelines.- Developed and ran a session of Excel training for the new intake of management trainees.- Various research, writing and editing tasks, eg for President’s Address and Commemoration Day programmes, “Imperial and …” country profiles

Management Trainee - Operational Excellence

- Provided a vital communication tool for the OE Space programme by creating a model to visualise where departments are located in buildings across the College campuses.The resulting images formed a “visualisation wall” where key messages of the programme could be displayed in an engaging and accessible format.- Produced various models in Excel to help analyse and present College Space data in an easily interpretable manner.- Produced detailed written research on the space sharing policies of our competitor institutions, expanding the scope of the research to international competitors such as NYU and MIT. - Facilitated a Rapid Improvement Event between Research Services and Academics in Engineering and Natural Sciences aimed at resolving differences over research deadlines.- Generated detailed statistical analysis of the College’s teaching rooms, including a visual tool that allowed various options for banding room sizes to be quickly generated and compared. This enabled the space policy development to proceed with solid facts, rather than previously held assumptions, behind it.- Worked with Campus Services on various aspects of a diagnostic to improve operational aspects of Campus Services and Estates Facilities, including running focus groups, carrying out observations and doing analytical work on various aspects of their work. Took the initiative to fill in gaps in our research, and efficiently collecting extra information that was outside scope but useful to other projects.- Presented various options and recommendations based on this work, mainly based on using problem-solving skills to derive innovative ideas around the problems, as well as potential ideas for cost reduction

London, United Kingdom

- Managed the monthly reporting of financial reports to the departments within the Faculty.- Organised the identification, location of and effective labelling of various financial documents and expense claims for an audit, which was passed with no issues. This required the development of an effective system in order to communicate the College’s internal procedures to external people.- Managed the recruitment process for a group of new finance trainees, including advertising, the filtering process, interview days and their eventual induction to the College.November 2014 – November 2015: Mechanical Engineering, Finance and Research Officer- Answered and dealt with a multitude of diverse queries from students regarding their finances, ranging from expense payments through to getting advances and purchasing equipment for projects. Managed staff accounts to prevent overspending.- Acted as a point of contact for researchers and academics for research costings, where I would generate what their research proposal would cost in order for them to provide a budget figure for research councils.- Redesigned the departmental student expenses system, which required six cabinets of paper files and a laborious photocopying process, as well as the unsatisfactory process of having to flick through a folder of many hundreds of pages to find the relevant photocopy if a student had a query. Created a computerised system that allowed us to do away with the cabinets, creating space in the office, reduce the time taken to log the claim, and be able to bring up the student’s claim on a screen in seconds if they had a query.- Worked on an allocation exercise that divided income between academics based on their relative success – came up with a more visual way of communicating this to them in order to make the process more transparent and easy to understand.- Created Purchase Orders, dealt with invoices and various generic finance queries for the department

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Responsible for looking after younger members of the Scout Association at weekly meetings, ensuring they were kept busy by coming up with games and activities as well as organising various extra-curricular pursuits.

History And Philosophy Of Science And Medicine Ma, History & Philosophy

Bachelor'S Degree, History, 2.1

I spent the majority of the time on two dissertations: a free standing long essay of the impact of professional cycling on the Italian.

Bachelor'S Degree, History, 3.675 Gpa

Study abroad scheme for one term (January-May) to widen historical knowledge, experience a new learning environment and take.

A-Levels, Geography A*, English Literature A*, Design & Technology A*, History A (2009)

Activities and Societies: Hockey A-Team. Swimming Team. Rugby A-Team. Athletics Team. Created and edited new section for school magazine.