Simon Parker

Current

• Front end of Innovation at Dow Corning

Past

• Senior Website Engineer at Dow Corning
• Plant Manager at Dow Corning
• Chemical Engineer at Elf Oil

• Chemical Engineer at BP Chemicals

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Education

• University of Warwick - Warwick Business School
• University of Cambridge

Recommended

9 people have recommended Simon

Connections

50 connections

Industry

Chemicals

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Simon Parker’s Summary

Unique blend of business acumen with understanding of customer needs and technology solutions. Able to build and implement scalable, global customer interfaces to support brand.

Simon Parker’s Specialties:

Customer expereince, ethnography, mental models
E-business, e-commerce
Website globalization
Social media - blogs, wikis, RSS
Website design, usability
Front End of Innovation
Business Process Management

Simon Parker’s Experience

• Front end of Innovation

  Dow Corning

  (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Chemicals industry)

  August 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  Worked across company and with Senior executives to develop a framework, process and common language to manage Front End activities. Introduced Idea Campaigns and piloted Open Innovation techniques.

• Senior Website Engineer

  Dow Corning

  (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Chemicals industry)

  February 1999 — September 2006 (7 years 8 months)

  Lead Redesign of dowcorning.com
  Worked with Adaptive Path to develop Mental Model
  Developed Controlled Vocabluary
  Work with Fry Inc. on visual design.
  Selected and worked with Endeca for facetted classification
  Lead strategy and implementation for sites in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and German.

• Plant Manager

  Dow Corning

  (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Chemicals industry)

  August 1995 — February 1999 (3 years 7 months)

  Manager of Site Utilities and Waste Water Treatment plant.
  Commissioning Engineer for Utilities and 1107 plant

• Chemical Engineer

  Elf Oil

  (Chemicals industry)

  1993 — 1995 (2 years)

• Chemical Engineer

  BP Chemicals

  (Public Company; Chemicals industry)

  1990 — 1993 (3 years)

Simon Parker’s Education

• University of Warwick - Warwick Business School

  MBA, 2002 — 2005

• University of Cambridge

  MA, MEng, Chemical Engineering, 1986 — 1990

Additional Information

Simon Parker’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Simon Parker’s Interests:

Outdoor sport - running, swimming Triathlons - twice completed Ironman distance triathlon (best time 11:27). Represented GB at World Age Group Champs in 2001 Surf lifesaving - qualified surf lifeguard, vice-captain of club. Surfing

Simon Parker’s Groups:

•    UX Professionals
•    Front End of Innovation
•    Dow Corning Alumni Group

Simon Parker’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch