Simon Metz is a Vice President of Delivery at Digitas Health part of the Publicis Group with experience in both consulting and corporate environments. He manages the design, development, and maintenance web based software and web initiatives where he leads 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, engaging user experiences, project risk analysis, search engine optimization, web architecture, and regulatory compliance such as FDA, SEC/NASD and CAN-SPAM while collaborating in the client relationship . 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. View the web applications Simon Metz has managed.

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. To see more about SEO projects and Simon Metz view the Search Engine Optimization page.

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.

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.

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