Daniel Whiston Email & Phone Number

Many of the projects I have designed and managed have won awards: 2024 Inspire Justice Awards - Learning and Development Programme of the Year; 2021 LTA Award - Learning Organisation Of the Year (Finalist); 2020 LTA - Gold, Best Use of Blended Learning; Bronze- Best Use of Mobile Learning, 2020 LTA; 2019 LTA Award for Excellence in Design of Learning Content - Public & Non-Profit Sector (Finalist); Best Edtech Startup at 2017 JISC Digifest; Bronze for Most Innovative Learning Technology Product at 2016 LTA; Gold for Excellence in the Production of Learning Content, 2015 E-Learning Age awards; Silver for Best Leadership Programme at 2015 Training Journal Awards; Bronze for Best Online Distance-learning at 2015 E-learning Age Awards; Brandon Hall 2014 Bronze Award for best blended learning programme; Gold award winner at WorldMediaFestival 2014; Gold Brandon Hall Group Excellence Award in 2012; 2011 E-learning Age Award Gold - Excellence in Learning Content.End-clients have included: the BBC; Pearson; Bank of England; Barclays; Fujitsu (sales training); Ford Europe (sales training); University of East London (disability awareness); BT (business strategy); TD Bank (Canadian Bank - finance); Roche (business ethics); IKEA; BP (lubricants products for sales staff/management training/Discover BP); Diageo (business ethics); G4S (security training); UK government (adoption laws); DePuy (sales training); Airbus (travel security & information security); The UN (information security update); Chicago Pneumatic (product training); Royal Bank of Scotland (IT systems walkthroughs); Hiscox (speciality UK insurer - broking training); The UK Securities Institute (finance); UK Environment Agency (groundwater protection training); Mencap (NGO); UK Police (IT systems walkthrough); IDEA (UK local government role and aims); Aegon finance (data handling); Countrywide (US Healthcare provider - information security); Rabobank (information security); Visa Europe (systems training); Dixons.

Responsibilities• line-managed dept of 12 full time stuff plus freelancers • managed project teams of content experts, scriptwriters, designers, Flash animators and interactive/instructional design experts• ensured production deadlines were met• championed creative high standards as editor• designed effective Quality Assurance, Production and Training processes• managed production of the company’s US product line• designed processes to support outsourcing of content production to India and managed trial projects and supplier bidsAchievements• successfully managed staff resources for up to 10 simultaneous projects • recruited 10 high-calibre staff to build creative department • built highly motivated work teams and nurtured individual staff• managed production of content that combined commercially-feasible use of latest technologies with best-practice user interface and user experience• successfully delivered range of US-UK co-produced multimedia products• built portfolio of suppliers and internal processes to support outsourcing

Ba, Ppe

Activities and Societies: Oxford Union Debating Society (elected to Secretary's Committee) Oxford Union Student Union (elected to Council).

Ma, International Relations

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