Simon Latimer Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Informatics lead for the Sussex Renal Service; the pan-Sussex NHS organisation for all Kidney patients.Responsible for managing and supporting the service's main clinical database systems.Managed several elements of recently completed renal informatics improvement programme.Designed & maintained the service's business and clinical intelligence systems.Handled upward and outward service reporting requirements for audit, clinical governance and service performance.Seconded to the Trust's IT board, the Information Governance committee and played a leading role in the Trust's system managers group.

Networks & Infrastructure / QAGames functionality QA testing.IT Manager for award-winning games company from start-up to industry leader, over seven years. Responsible for all IT & IS infrastructure including several evolutions during the company's rapid growth and commissioning new overseas offices.Provided IT consultancy to senior management and clients.Key player in the company's mobile-phone application testing & certification programme.Managed highly skilled team of engineers & system's administrators.Project manager on several business process automation projects, from inception to final delivery.Creation & maintenance of company's business intelligence platform.Designed & built highly secure, technical & operational security systems for protecting game assets.

Co-managed Y2K test facility as part of a large team of contractors at a very large banking corporation.Third line support for a Foreign Exchange trading system at another very large banking corporation.Provided ad-hoc consultancy and troubleshooting services to many of the company's short-term clients.

Worked at all levels within Reuters' primary global network operations centre, from junior operator to senior real-time networks' controller.Worked with a huge variety of systems and technologies, from late 1950's drum and card based 2nd generation mainframes to massively parallel processing arrays in one of the world's first hyper-scale computing facilities.Lead network operator in several process automation projects.Lead technical trainer for all new starters.Managed large team of operators and network controllers, handling all day-to-day support of a 24/7, four and five 9s level, real-time information service.