Simon Parker

Past

Business Process Manager -Front end of Innovation at Dow Corning
Senior Website/Ecommerce Manager 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

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Industry

Chemicals

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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:

Project and Programme Management
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

Business Process Manager -Front end of Innovation

Dow Corning

(Privately Held; Chemicals industry)

August 2006 — September 2008 (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/Ecommerce Manager

Dow Corning

(Privately Held; Chemicals industry)

February 1999 — September 2006 (7 years 8 months)

Led Redesign Program for 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

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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