Simon Wright
Global Head Of Talent Advisory Consulting at PeopleScout
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Wright is a seasoned talent advisory leader with 26 years' experience in RPO and talent management, currently serving as Global Head of Talent Advisory Consulting at PeopleScout. He combines strategic HR expertise with hands-on delivery, having built award-winning, multidisciplinary teams across employer brand, assessment, development and D&I that drive measurable business impact. Simon brings a genuinely global perspective from living and working across EMEA and APAC and is a trusted advisor to HR and talent leaders on complex workforce challenges. His career progression from client-facing account roles to leading a global practice demonstrates a rare blend of commercial acumen and consulting craft. Outside talent strategy, he has an unusual technical bent—contributing embedded systems improvements to an open-source Ada drivers library—reflecting curiosity and a pragmatic approach to problem solving.
26 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc. (Hons), Business Studies with Human Resource Management, Bsc. (Hons), Business Studies with Human Resource Management at The University of Salford
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Github Skills (15)
embedded10
ada10
driver10
sensor10
sys10
hal10
spi9
i2c9
generics9
stm8
gcc6
gnat6
exceptions6
macos6
spark-ada6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
AdaCore/Ada_Drivers_Library
Nov 2016 - Dec 2022
Ada source code and complete sample GNAT projects for selected bare-board platforms supported by GNAT.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 18 commits, 21 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on enhancing the Ada Drivers Library by adding support for various hardware components. This includes implementing drivers for the PMW3901 flow sensor and the LPS25H barometric sensor, as well as adding support for the ST VL53L1X Time-of-Flight sensor. Furthermore, the user improved the existing code by using HAL.Time facilities and adding interrupt support.
adastm32platformssupportedgnat
simonjwright/tcladashell
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 82 commits, 58 pushes in 3 years
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