Howard Simpson
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Seamus O'Sullivan MBA, MAPM
Howard worked on one of my projects to improve the SIF based user provisioning solution to BSF schools and showed 110% ownership and dedication in seeing the solution through development, deployment and early life support when others would often have stood back once development was complete.
LinkedIn User
Howard is a multi-talented software developer and systems engineer with a thorough understanding of education and technology standards. He can handle full lifecycle IT projects and is a good team player. He is also a nice guy to work with and always up for a challenge involving new languages, technologies, tools, processes....an excellent all rounder.
Seamus O'Sullivan MBA, MAPM
Howard worked on one of my projects to improve the SIF based user provisioning solution to BSF schools and showed 110% ownership and dedication in seeing the solution through development, deployment and early life support when others would often have stood back once development was complete.
LinkedIn User
Howard is a multi-talented software developer and systems engineer with a thorough understanding of education and technology standards. He can handle full lifecycle IT projects and is a good team player. He is also a nice guy to work with and always up for a challenge involving new languages, technologies, tools, processes....an excellent all rounder.
Seamus O'Sullivan MBA, MAPM
Howard worked on one of my projects to improve the SIF based user provisioning solution to BSF schools and showed 110% ownership and dedication in seeing the solution through development, deployment and early life support when others would often have stood back once development was complete.
LinkedIn User
Howard is a multi-talented software developer and systems engineer with a thorough understanding of education and technology standards. He can handle full lifecycle IT projects and is a good team player. He is also a nice guy to work with and always up for a challenge involving new languages, technologies, tools, processes....an excellent all rounder.
Seamus O'Sullivan MBA, MAPM
Howard worked on one of my projects to improve the SIF based user provisioning solution to BSF schools and showed 110% ownership and dedication in seeing the solution through development, deployment and early life support when others would often have stood back once development was complete.
LinkedIn User
Howard is a multi-talented software developer and systems engineer with a thorough understanding of education and technology standards. He can handle full lifecycle IT projects and is a good team player. He is also a nice guy to work with and always up for a challenge involving new languages, technologies, tools, processes....an excellent all rounder.
Credentials
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Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SA) Certification Program
Scaled Agile, Inc.Feb, 2015- Nov, 2024
Experience
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CENTREL Solutions
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United Kingdom
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Technology Officer
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Feb 2016 - Present
CENTREL Solutions creates software which helps IT professionals save time by automating network management tasks. Our products include: XIA Configuration Server Automatically document the configuration of your IT infrastructure. https://www.centrel-solutions.com/xiaconfiguration/ XIA Automation Server Automate your common network tasks. https://www.centrel-solutions.com/xiaautomation/ XIA Links Server Centrally manage desktop shortcuts shown to users across your organization. https://www.centrel-solutions.com/xialinks/
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Pearson
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United Kingdom
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Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Platform Manager (Content Management Systems)
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Aug 2014 - Jan 2016
Technical Product Owner responsible for the development of the content production and management tool chain within Pearson UK Schools.• Led development teams through business-critical projects using agile methodologies such as Scrum and SAFe.• Provided thought leadership on next generation digital content to meet new modes of consumption• Developed strategies to ensure that new products are optimised to work across multiple devices• Harnessed metadata and taxonomies to enable digital content to be located and interrelated• Explored ways in which digital content can be interlinked and aggregated to suit individual learners• Steered and aligned the development roadmaps for the whole production and management tool chain• Established and propagated effective governance of current core production capabilities• Evaluated and contributed to the development of global content management solutions• Acted as the decision making authority on the roll out of global CMS solutions into UK schools• Exposed digital content services for authorised use in Pearson, third party and public online services
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Digital Development Manager
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Dec 2011 - Aug 2014
• Managed the development of several key Pearson products which utilised technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and .NET.
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Access 4 Learning Community
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United States
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Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Member of UK Technical Board and International Technical Board UK representative
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Apr 2011 - Dec 2011
• Personally proposed and championed changes to the SIF UK specification* in three of its public releases. • Made a member of the SIF Association UK Technical Board as a result of my contributions. • Voted onto the SIF Association International Technical Board by my peer engineers. * an e-learning standard based on XML and web services. • Personally proposed and championed changes to the SIF UK specification* in three of its public releases. • Made a member of the SIF Association UK Technical Board as a result of my contributions. • Voted onto the SIF Association International Technical Board by my peer engineers. * an e-learning standard based on XML and web services.
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RM plc
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Architects Group
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Oct 2007 - Dec 2011
• Development Lead of several, multi-million, regional and national projects.• Created white papers and key design decision documents as part of driving forward RM's e-learning standards strategy.• Developed .NET prototypes including the integration of 3rd party services such as Google Apps for Education, Live@edu, Microsoft Office Web Apps, Moodle and YouTube with RM products.• Provided third line support for critical customer issues.• Built and maintained the virtualized server environment owned by the Technical Architects Group.
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Software Engineer
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May 2006 - Oct 2007
• Wrote .NET software components for a SharePoint site used by over a million customers.
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Content Developer/Technician
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Jan 2004 - May 2006
• Technical responsibility for building rich, engaging, interactive, digital content for RM software and services.
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Education
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1999 - 2002
University of Essex
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1992 - 1999
Larkmead School
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