Simon Ball
Interim Global IT Director @Scott Bader
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WORK HISTORY
Interim Global IT Director @Scott Bader
Northamptonshire, GB
IT Management:Oversee day-to-day IT operations across all global sites, ensuring optimal performance.Manage global IT teams, ensuring clear communication and coordination across regions.Ensure efficient IT service delivery, including infrastructure, support, and application management.Maintain IT budget oversight, ensuring cost-effective allocation of resources.Monitor IT system performance, availability, and reliability, implementing improvements as needed.Manage vendor relationships, including negotiation and performance monitoring of service providers.IT Strategy:Develop and implement a short-term IT strategy aligned with business goals during the interim period.Assess and optimize existing IT systems, infrastructure, and processes.Identify opportunities for digital transformation and operational efficiency improvements.Collaborate with senior leadership to align IT initiatives with business strategy.Prepare the organization for a smooth handover to a permanent IT leader by documenting key initiatives and strategic goals.Cybersecurity:Implement and enforce global cybersecurity policies and protocols to safeguard digital assets.Oversee threat detection, incident response, and remediation activities.Ensure compliance with global cybersecurity regulations and standards (e.g, GDPR, ISO 27001).Assess current cybersecurity posture and implement improvements to mitigate risks.Manage security audits, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessments.Lead the response to any cybersecurity incidents or breaches, ensuring prompt containment and recovery.
EDUCATION
Qonnections
Qlik Data Architect, QlikSense
De Montfort University
Master of Science (Distinction), Information Systems Management
SKILLS
ABOUT SIMON BALL
An IT Leader who is passionate about balancing detailed knowledge of technology and data with a love of dealing with people, both staff and customers, to deliver projects or produce useful and robust software systems. I thrive in high complexity, multi-stream projects, with large numbers of resources and dependencies, and abstract concepts. I am passionate about people, and solving their work problems via IT Leadership, and I specialise in enhancing projects and processes through Business Intelligence, Software Support & the Software Development Life-Cycle. I am versatile and can handle immediate detail and long term strategy simultaneously. I am a rare breed, enjoying roles in Leadership, Management and hands on Development.I like solving puzzles, in software design and architecture, in business analysis and in project management. I like delivering SaaS by managing a distributed workforceI like helping the C-suite to effect positive cultural changeI like building processes to support and enhance business systemsA brief history:2021+IT leader in the IT department of a Global Chemicals manufacturing businessLeading a team of 16 perm staff and up to 8 regular contractors managing Cyber security, IT Support, Servers, Data Management & Applications, Vendor and Client management, Budgets and IT Applications. 20••••21IT Leader managing a global team of IT specialistsLead Developer in QlikSense/View Script Development & QlikSense/View AdministrationSetting up and improving existing departments dealing with- IT Service Delivery and Saas Development & Implementation - Project and Programme Management - Agile Scrum delivery - ETL/BI Architecture - Help-desk Implementation20••••19CIOProgramme management of multiple project streamsManaging Network, Infrastructure and Support DeskManaging BI Analysts and Developers, Project Managers and Risk Managers
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