Bio

Simma works collaboratively with her clients, educating and empowering them to think outside of the box to envision how technology and digitalization can transform education. She applies her experiences with organization strategy, enterprise software implementations and optimizations, business process redesign, analytics development, and project management to help her clients improve student performance and outcomes.

Simma started her career in implementation services at Epic, the leading electronic health record software firm, working with physicians and nurses to digitalize their workflows and improve patient care. While there, she worked with integrated care delivery networks to design, configure, test, and bring live their outpatient clinical and patient portal solutions.

To expand her experiences outside of Epic, Simma joined PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Information Technology practice. During her time with PWC, Simma focused on engagements related to the design and optimization of clinical and revenue cycle applications. She also gained experience with large program project management, vendor selections, IT due diligence reviews, and end-user testing and validation processes.

Ultimately, Simma found her passion serendipitously through a Gates Foundation grant to assist Houston ISD to develop a Personalized Learning Vision & Strategy in 2012. That project has kicked off a two year long discovery of education technology, immersing herself in the field that now dominates her twitter feed, book shelf, and conference list. She has worked with some of the largest school districts in the country to develop personalized learning strategies and identifying the supporting technical architecture and learning applications.