Simon Metz is a Vice President of Delivery with experience in both consulting and corporate environments. He manages the design, development, and maintenance web based software and web initiatives where he has lead teams of project managers, producers, technical architects, software engineers, information architects, and designers for .NET, J2EE, HTML, and Flash based projects. He focuses on strategic business requirements, search engine optimization, software and web architecture, and systems for clients both internal and external. Simon leverages his experience in managing applications and sites with respect to vendor relations and regulatory compliance such as FDA, SEC/NASD and CAN-SPAM. Managing the client relationships and development teams for these systems requires understanding and communicating business process flows, managing project risks/issues and Software Development Life Cycle. He is very familiar with Content Management Systems such as SiteCore , Vignette and Interwoven Teamsite and he has also worked on numerous custom CMS applications on J2EE and .NET platforms.

Simon Metz works at Digitas Health part of the Publicis Group.

Simon previously worked at IconNicholson where he managed teams on interactive projects for diverse clients such as Mass General Hospital, Nestle Waters and McKinsey & Co. He was also the SEO SME across a number of clients including MasterCard, McKinsey & Co, Nestle Waters, Forrest Labs, and Valspar Paint

Priot to IconNicholson Simon worked at Time Inc. Interactive which manages and develops content for most of Time Inc.'s premier sites time.com, people.com, and ew.com. At Time Inc Interactive Simon Metz was the manager for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) where he drove SEO projects, built Best Practices documentation and worked with the development team to implement major changes in application and web coding to leverage data and optimize pages. His work included defining technology standards around new content management systems, RSS and news feeds and blogs.

Prior to Time Inc. Interactive Simon worked at a division of Omnicom Media, C2 Creative, which developed and supported enterprise wide Content Management, Digital Asset, and Kiosk systems. His clients at Omnicom included U. S. Trust, Philips Lighting, Daimler Chrysler, Sony, Intel, imler Chrysler, and Cablevision. View the web applications Simon Metz has managed.

Because of his work in CMS, SEO, and complex data systems while at IconNicholson and Time Inc. Interactive, Simon has become particularly involved with The Semantic Web and Meta Data structures to drive search and display functionality. To see more about SEO projects and Simon Metz view the Search Engine Optimization page.

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