David Beecroft

A determined and conscientious individual, who having worked in IT for over 30 years has extensive knowledge and experience of business and system analysis tools, techniques, standards and skills. I have successfully managed a team of 5 staff and have successfully managed, designed and implemented many projects, often within challenging timescales, demonstrating drive and tenacity to achieve results.

• Over 25 Business Analyst experience
• Over 30 years IT experience.
• Excellent broad business and system knowledge including Medical Appliances Systems, Formal Regulatory Medical Systems, Educational systems, CRM, HR, Payroll, ERM, Statutory Reporting, Finance and managing bespoke requests.
• Excellent Business Analysis skills.
• Excellent team managerial skills.
• Excellent communicational skills.
• Excellent Project Management skills.
• ISEB registered.
• Managing staff.
• Mentoring and developing staff
• 3 years as a Lead Business Analyst at Costain, 3 years as a Business Analyst at Smith and Nephew. Over 8 years as a department manager at Hull College, including staff management, budget management, Business Analysis, Project Management and leading a department through major changes. I have over 12 year’s expertise in working with FE Systems and over 25 years working as a Business Analyst including design, analysis, support and training. I have the ability to understand business needs. Flexible approach to working with users and team members.

  The areas I have worked on include: -

• Reconciliation of multiple systems into a single source.
• Specifying system enhancements, both user documentation and developer documentation.
• Test Script writing.
• UAT.
• SIT.
• Team management
• Power BI.
• Scrum methodology.
• Large volume data manipulation and comparison.
• Systems reconciliations.
• Working in an Agile environment.
• Supporting supplier requests for legislative information.
• Implementation of a new Student Records System, including requirements gathering, software evaluation, system set up and user training.
• Implementation of a ID card system.
• Managing the implementation of a new Payroll System.
• Project Management of the implementation of a replacement Finance System.
• Management, design and implementation of an Appraisal System.
• Implementation and Management of a CRM System.
• Design and Analysis of Educational Data Reporting.
• Implementation of EILP system 
• Evaluation, Purchasing and implementation of a Dashboard System.
• Hardware product evaluation.
• Lean Processing College functions.
• Implementation of a HE Student Management System 
• In house reporting function using SQL databases and Access.
• Staff management
• Development of staff through mentoring and training programs
• Excellent knowledge of concepts, application design and management. 
• Over 20 years Project Management experience including PRINCE 2.

  The projects I have managed include: -

• Job allocation and scheduling system.
• Branch based MI system.
• Agent HR system.
• Branch based performance measurement and reward system.
• Centralisation of distributed databases.
• Over 10 years Informix and Unix experience including SQL.
• Excellent Financial understanding of concepts and working practices.
• Excellent communicational skills. 
• Excellent versatility and adaptability.
• Good understanding of programming concepts.
• Excellent presentational, decision-making, leadership and motivational skills.
• Ability to quickly understand technical requirements and new technical developments.

BCS Business Analysis Foundation