Daniel Tyson

Experience

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  Legal & General

  Jan 2003 - May 2007

  Business Analyst / Change Consultant

  • Business process redesign within the Endowment Sales Complaint review• Managed testing and Implementation of a 3 stage Electronic Document Management system over 2 years to over 1000 users in each phase.• Outsourcing business processes to partner organisations• Point of contact in department for business system changes• Test manager for business systems (Functional, UAT and Regression testing)• Reviewing and creating user guides and process notes for distribution

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  BBC

  May 2007 - Nov 2008

  Business Analyst

  Reporting to the Business Systems Manager I was the senior analyst for BBC Wales in a national project team designing, testing and implementing a new BBC wide scheduling system for people and resources.• Checking system specifications against business requirements• Bringing specification change requests from users to the project group• Organising workshops and review of policies and procedures• Managing ad-hoc projects and workstreams• Designing and executing functional and business acceptance testing• Implementation planning Show less

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  UK Foundation Programme Office

  Nov 2008 - May 2009

  Business Analyst

  Working for an NHS agency responsible for the education of doctors in the UK, I investigated and delivered recommendations on a national data collection and reporting processes.I reported directly to the Project Director and I was solely in charge of the delivery of this project.• Gathering reporting requirements from stakeholders including foundation hospitals, The Department of Health in England, and the regional equivalents in the Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies and Scottish Parliament• Producing a final recommendations document and an implementation timetable for 2010 which was accepted and delivered by the steering group. Show less

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  Manchester City Council

  Apr 2009 - Aug 2013

  Business Analyst

  I am a founding and core member of a small team responsible for a £150 million capital investment to redevelop the Town Hall Extension (THX) and Central Library for Manchester City Council http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500211/town_hall_complex_transformation. This is one of the largest capital projects within the UK, and the largest movement of people and resources in Europe this year.• Business Analyst responsible for requirements gathering, procurement documentation and move planning for the initial decant of 1,500 staff from THX to temporary office location as well as warehouse space for the storage of valuable and historic furniture.• Project managed removal of valuable and historic furniture and other assets, owned by Manchester City Council, including Library service and Manchester Art Gallery artefacts.• Collating and delivering business requirements to architects and construction colleagues for Town Hall Extension and Central Library. Including review / acceptance of construction and design specifications.• Engagement with senior stakeholders, and the delivery New Ways of Working for several large departments, including implementing flexible working arrangements.• Managing large scale moves for people and furniture (1000 + staff)• Identified, managed and delivered service redesigns, delivering £400,000 of savings.• Managing capital spend projects in representing £100,000 investment in meeting rooms and agile working.My role has been one of business analyst, project manager and stakeholder liaison, depending on the needs of the programme, also working on brief secondments to other departments delivering specific projects or business analysis. The four-year project is almost at an end, with the move of staff back into the redeveloped Town Hall Extension underway. Show less

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  Bristol City Council

  Aug 2013 - Jan 2017

  Responsible for a wide range of projects, from ensuring the smooth running of ICT for local and national elections, to delivering a managed network for a £250m local transport project. I often have to manage up to 9 projects at the same time for a variety of business stakeholders.- Developing business cases, securing funding and delivering a range of ICT Projects using Agile and Prince2 principles for more traditional waterfall projects.- Working independently in delivering small scale ICT business change.Reporting to Project boards and senior stakeholders for more complex projects.- Managing budgets and resources including; testers, developers, transition, solutions architects, business analysts and other specialists.- Using a range of software tools to manage project timelines and RAIDs. Also use tools such as Jira, Slack and Confluence to manage project deliverables.- Stakeholder management and ensuring effective communication through project lifecycle. Show less

  • ICT Project Manager

    Nov 2015 - Jan 2017

  • Business Analyst

    Aug 2013 - Nov 2015
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  Bristol University

  Feb 2017 - Jan 2018

  Programme Business Analyst
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  Cadence Innova

  Jan 2018 - Mar 2019

  Business Analyst

  Working with HEFCE and DfE on the technology workstream of new Office for Students, supporting the building and testing of; website, intranet, provider portal.

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  Sabbatical

  Mar 2019 - Jul 2019

  Sabbatical

  I took 6 months off from work to hike through some of the most beautiful trails in America. I hiked over 1000 miles through California and Oregon.

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  Agilisys

  Aug 2019 - Dec 2020

  Project Manager / Busines Analyst
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  Tribal Group

  Dec 2020 - now

  Project Manager

  Project Manager