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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