Simon R Chapple
Simon Chapple is a highly experienced solution architect and lead software engineer, with 25+ years developing innovative solutions and applications in data analysis and healthcare informatics, and an expert in supercomputer HPC and Big Data processing. Simon is Chief Technology Officer and a managing partner for Datalytics Technology Ltd, where he is leading the team building the next generation of large scale data analysis platform based on a customisable set of high performance tools, frameworks and systems, that enables the entire lifecycle of data processing for real-time analytics, from capture through analysis to presentation, to be encapsulated for easy deployment into any existing operational IT environment. Previously he was Director of Product Innovation at Aridhia Informatics, where he built a number of novel systems for healthcare providers in Scotland, including a unified patient pathway tracking system utilising ten separate data system integrations for both 18-weeks Referral To Treatment and cancer patient management (enabling the provider to deliver best performance on patient waiting times in Scotland); and a unique real-time chemotherapy patient mobile-based public cloud hosted monitoring system undergoing clinical trial in Australia, highly praised by nurses and patients: ""its like having a nurse in your living room… hopefully all chemo patients will one day know the security and comfort of having an around-the-clock angel of their own”. Simon is also co-author of the ROpenCL open source package enabling statistics programs written in R to exploit the parallel computation within graphics accelerator chips.