Education
After attending George Watson"s College and Neath Grammar School, Sims studied Economics and Statistics at the Swansea University, where he received his Bachelor of Science (Economy) with honours in 1969.
After attending George Watson"s College and Neath Grammar School, Sims studied Economics and Statistics at the Swansea University, where he received his Bachelor of Science (Economy) with honours in 1969.
In 1969 Sims started his 24-year career at International Business Machines Corporation, where he started as a trainee Systems Engineer. He held positions in software development, technical management and, in his last three years, in consultancy. He worked on a range of software products from operating systems, middleware, database management systems (DBMS) and application packages to the development of in-house customer applications.
He has held a number of other positions in software and consultancy ever since.
He described his goal as "to contribute to the transformation of software development, and Information Technology"s management of their assets, to much higher levels of productivity, responsiveness, and flexibility.
In 1993 he became Chief Architect and Principal Consultant for Integrated Objects Limited in Newbury, United Kingdom, and also became member of the Object Management Group.