Simon Johns

Since 2003, Simon has been working for Broadway Malyan, as their IT Director. Broadway Malyan is a renowned Architecture and Design practice, with 14 offices throughout Europe, the Middle and Far East, with 750 staff and an annual turnover of £50M. Simon has been instrumental in the expansion of the company in recent times, providing IT infrastructure, access methods, appropriate networks and new ways of collaborative working. This has facilitated low-cost, sustainable IT systems across the globe.

Simon worked for St Ives Burrups Ltd, as their Associate Director IT. He had global responsibility for the provision, maintenance and running of all IT services, networks and developments for St Ives Burrups Ltd., the financial print division of St Ives, a market leading FTSE 250 plc. Simon initiated and had responsibility for a St Ives group wide-area network consolidation and cost saving project valued at over £3 million over three years saving approximately 30% of the total spend.

At Foster and Partners Simon managed a team of seven, and was responsible for all IT support, development and implementation of all IT networks, hardware and software within the practice. He instigated the re-networking of the office to facilitate faster access to large CAD and graphic files. He also introduced web access and email to the company, thereby facilitating a new means of communicating with their clients. Security concerns were ever present, Simon ensured security both internally and externally

Simon worked as Cad Manager at Bechtel. At Bechtel he ran the engineering support team of eight people. The main packages that the team supported were varying 2D and 3D CAD suites and the hardware on which they ran. He successfully introduced Bentley Microstation into the UK business and was an active player in Bechtel’s IT strategy steering committee based in Washington DC. In 1995 he helped design the corporate NT domain structure across 25,000 workstations and servers worldwide.

Simon worked as CAD Team Leader with a team of eight, and running the day-to-day business of the CAD department, ensuring work was of a high standard and delivered on time.

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