About Drew Simon
Drew is a proven business leader and technology executive with 27 years of management and technology consulting experience focusing on digital transformation, process improvement, Organizational Change Management & leading teams to excel in innovative environments. Drew is a seasoned leader of Strategic Change Consulting, PMOs, Digital & Agile Transformations.
Relevant Experience
Global Integration and Digital Transformation
- Process Strategy and Delivery lead on a global integration and digital transformation program that brought together 24 independent operating companies on a single set of systems and standardized processes across Sales, Finance, Project Delivery and HR. Drove the Defect Prioritization and Triage process for this multi-vendor/system implementation
Executive Consulting & Transformations
- Experience in Executive-Level (C-Suite) consulting & communications
- Managed and facilitated Digital and Delivery Transformations and Organizational Redesigns for large Enterprise Corporations
- Delivered and consulted in Mergers, Acquisitions and Carve-Outs
IT Strategy & Roadmaps
- Involved in all aspects (Business, Strategy, Product, Finance, Sales & Service) of Annual & Quarterly Roadmap/Portfolio Development
- Fiscal and budgetary experience at company, departmental and project levels
Program Management Office and Development Mythologies
- Managed and mentored Program & Project Managers on both departmental (PMO) and project levels for over 18 years.
- Vast experience in writing, defining, planning, and coordinating program/project plans and budgets through program/project completion
- Certified and trained in major Software Development Life Cycle methodologies (Agile/Scrum, SAFe, Spiral, Rapid, Waterfall)
- Experience in Enterprise Program Management Tools, selection, definition, implementation and adoption
Education
- BS, Ohio University School of Communications
- Multimedia Studies, San Francisco State University
- Certified Scrum Master
Areas of Specialty
- Transformation Advisory
- Complex Program Management & Governance
- Order to Cash Process Definition
- Organizational Change Management
- Enterprise Risk Management
- IT Strategy, Release Planning & Prioritization
- Roadmap Implementation
- Program & Agile Project Management
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Organizational Design
Key Industries
- Business Services
- Automotive
- Healthcare
- Telecommunications
- Retail
- Finance
- Consumer Goods

